Hello All! Newbie here :-)
WELCOME SHELLY!!!!
You aren't alone anymore....we are all like family and friends on this wonderful MN board!!!!!!!
I hope you can start making it to one of the coffee groups in your area. That is where you will flourish!! So much support, knowledge, and humor you can't help but feel great about the choice you have made.
Your family and friends will come around...give them a chance to process the whole idea. Once they see how happy you are they will be happy too.
Hope you meet you sometime....hugs, connie d
I'm going to 3rd what everyone else said.....Have you considered bring the family smooth-over person (every family has the family smooth-over person who calms everyone's waters during a crisis) with you to some of the group meetings or doctor appointments. The more informed they are the most supportive they can become.
Welcome to our board and we all look forward to supoprting you along your journey!!! Come out to a coffee this weekend. They are all over the cities -- Maple Grove, Eden Prairie, Eagan, etc. XXOO
Fitness is not about age or a size -- it's really about an attitude and life style!!!
Life is not measured by the number of breathes we take, but by the moments that take our breathe away~~
Welcome to the boards you will love the support here. I understand about the family thing I only told my Mom and Dad and ofcourse my hubby about it. But the rest of my family does not know. They wouldn't understand. And how can they there on me and don't understand the daily struggles I have. I choose surgery because I'm health was heading in a bad direction and I needed to take charge and live a healthier life. I have 2 little ones under 2 and I need to be here for them. Ans if I kept going in the diredtion I was with my health it could have gotten very bad. I have found sooo much support and love from all these people and am go greatful for finding this site. Best of luck on your journey.
Jennifer
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