WAKE UP!!!!

This board is getting WAY too quiet lately.

So, to get conversation flowing...

~ It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret. ~ John Gray

Many of us regret not having WLS sooner in our lives, we regret becoming obese in the first place.  But we can't change the past.

APART from WLS, we regret things we have done, or COULD have done but didn't.  

My question to all of you is - APART from your actual WLS, what is one great regret you have in life, and what can you do to move on from it?

You first.....

This one's a thinker.

My biggest regret is not getting my BS.  I have an AAS degree but always wanted a bachlor's.  Some day I plan to go back to school and get it, but right now it's not in the plan.

My biggest regret was NOT going on to school after graduating.  Now, at age 44, I am looking at going back and getting a degree.  Starting small - but going to finally do it!

Great question though, because you are correct, regret not having done my surgery earlier in life - but certainly making the MOST of the new life I do have now!

Kelly

 I don't regret a single thing in life because I wouldn't be where I am if I didn't do all the stupid **** I did, haha.

But if I HAD to choose something... hmm.... I guess it would be that when I was little... 10, 11, 12 years old... I would have listened to my mom's concern about my weight issue. But.. I was too young to grasp the severity of the situation. I just loved McDonald's Quarter Pounders and there was no one that would get in the way of that. No one. 

Mine is not confronting the demons from my youth earlier in life and realizing that the word "vitctim" doesn't define who I am or what I am but it's only a small part of me.

It's pretty sad when the question asker can't even come up with a solid reply to her own question.

Obviously, I do regret the whole weight thing - my brother even said recently to my mom - 'I wonder what her life would have been like had she gotten the weight off when she was younger?'

I could take that many ways - better career? (not complaining, I LOVE my job!), better husband? (I know now that I did 'settle' back then), traveled more? I don't know, but like Elena, I can't regret where I've been and what I've done, because to wish any of it away would devalue what I now have - most importantly, my children, who are MY LIFE.

What do I regret? I can honestly say I've done plenty of things in my life based on my FEAR of regret! My fear of doing NOT some pretty major things was, apparently, greater than my fear of doing those things!

So I guess my greatest regret so far is - not buying a winning lottery ticket.

First off.  I agree.  This board is too quiet.  Years ago it was hopping...but I've been away for a couple years too. 

Biggest regret apart form WLS related...Getting married the second time, quitting my GREAT job and leaving the twin cities last year to be with him.  Relocating my kids up there in the middle of no where with no family or friends...Isolating us to him...only to have him want a divorce after only 7 months of marriage.