I MUST be PMSing... (long)

Darla...you have a wonderful way with words. Thank you for posting this. I am so happy to call you friend. You are right on the money on this one!!  AMEN!!! Love and hugs.....connie d

Darla, I couldn't have said it better!  I love the part where you talk about the unexpected friendships.  I know I would have already started regaining without you and the others here.  I love each and every one of my new friends.  I have a friend in Canada (Hey Sue!) I have friends in Minnesota and even a few in Wisconsin.  I love it when someone will ask me what I have planned for the weekend and I'll say, Oh I'm meeting up with 15-20 of my best friends for coffee! The support that is given on this board is amazing.  The fact that when we all get together we feel comfortable enough to talk about sagging skin (and even have comparison contests LOL), gas, constipation, and other taboo topics, is so liberating.  It's hard enough to talk to a doc about some of this stuff, but it's so easy to talk to those that are there or have been there. I can't make coffee in MG tomorrow.  I'm sorry I won't be able to see you.  I love ya, Debi

You Hun sure do know how to lay it all out there!  Such an inspiration in so many ways! Thanks for posting this!

Big Hugs!

Bravo my friend! I am so honored to call all of you friend because we really are doing this together.

I love it!! I love it!!  Darla, your message is so true!! We do deserve to take this amazing journey of WLS. We deserve every WOW moment that happens. I know that for me life before WLS was not much of one. I merely seemed to exsist!! I know that I deserve a better opportunity for my life and my family!!! This surgery has opened so many doors for me in so many ways. I am truly blessed and especially blessed for all the friends that I have made through this journey.  We are all worth the journey!!! Thank you for the great post!!  You are very special to this board!

Way to speak it Darla!    Your hubby is one luck guy!  I'll have to think about cleaning when I am PMSing!    Thanks for the post!  

Miss Darla, I just love you!!!  You are my long lost sister I swear!!  I think i was PMSing this week too!!  OR maybe its all the stress I am under, HEHEHE!!! I started sorting and tossing "stuff" out this week.  Stuff I have been hanging onto for YEARS!!  I haven't touched the stuff in storage yet!   I am also trying to work more too, to get some extra cash in to help with the wedding and moving!! There is soo much going on here that unfortunately, my eating hasn't been very good.  It could be alot worse!!!  BUT none the less, I need to get back on track.  Lord help me!!!  Pray for me!! Love you my friend!!!

I just wanted to clarify a couple of things that I managed to miss in my original post. No, this is NOT in response to any kind of drama I may or may not have been involved in, on the boards or in any pm's.  It was simply, as I said, my reaction to someone thinking this whole WLS deal is too good to be true.  Does that not sound like one of our old tapes?  Of our well-conditioned mindset that this, too, will fail?  I found it SAD!!!  So sad, I truly did shed a surprising number of tears over the whole idea that we STILL feel like we can't have this!   (And to the individual who will undoubtedly recognize herself as the person that triggered my tirade, IT'S ALL GOOD, HONEY!  You did NOT make me mad, I just felt the need to shed a little light on how deserving you, and we ALL, are!!!) I got a bit off that track, and I'm afraid I came off sounding pissed!  I was NOT pissed when I wrote that, I've been in a pretty darned great mood today!  But I DID get fired up!  Not mad, but it's hard to explain... And Ms. LisaJoy, if you think my hubby is such a lucky SOB, I'm pretty sure he'd have a whole 'nuther perspective to give ya!!!  I love you all so very much - yes, the friendships I've been lucky enough to develop with people here has been the greatest unexpected benefit of all!!!

Oh-mi-garsh!  How'd you ever get into my place and copy my journal?! 

Hi Darlin'! I've incommunicado a few days becasue my *****computer done blowed up and died. The computer guys were able to salvage some info off the hard drive, but the whole motherboard and stuff inside were toast.  Many dinero to purchase a new one.   It least they saved my revised resume... ANYHOO--I LOVE your new avatar!!  OMG--I had to look twice and then tripe-check the name and the perosnal history to make sure it was OUR Darla!!  HOLY COW!!   You look awsome!! And you looked pretty dang good before! And like I totally agree with your rant!!  We have earned every accolade, every appreciative look, every look of disbelief. We have been to hell and back because of our weight and our inability to beat our food addictions. This is something most of us will fight our whole lives because the docs operate on our digestive systems, not our brains.  This tool is our godsend, but the honeymoon does not last forever.  That's why it's imperative to develop good eating habits while on this honeymoon. Probably 99% of us struggle with the mind set of 'fat people' when we actually are 'normal' weights for our heights.  And so it goes.  99% of us say that we would do have the surgery again  in a heart beat. And that's a pretty strong affirmation! Keep writing, Darla!   I think  you missed your calling as an author.  You write soooo very well!  KUDOS! (((HUGS)) **SUE**