I got to meet Glenda Rowell!!

Tonight at the WLS seminar I met Ms Thang---Glenda Rowell. Yall she is so beautiful and an inspiration to us all. She has lost 188 pounds since Feb. Can you believe that? She is very very very sweet. I also met a lady from Wiggins named Frieda and I told her about this site! I dont know if I met Sandra Thompson and I am going to be so upset if she says she was there and didnt come visit with me!! It was good to go back to the seminar after surgery --it really reminded me of things I had forgotten. I recommend all post ops do this. Talk to yall later!!

Well, Aren't you the luck duck of the day. Getting to get out and meeting all of these great people. And Glenda has lost a big 188 lbs since Feb. ??? WOW.... That is GRRRRREEEEAAAAT. I'll be so glad when I can say that...... I'll be the first and only one who ever gains weight or doesn't lose anything after surgery. I have such rotten luck, if I was to find a $100. bill on the ground, I'd fall and break my darn neck trying to bend over to pick it up. I am glad that you had a wonderful time. That says and means alot to you I'm sure. Nothing like friendship with those who understand what ya going through.

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Hey Sunshine!! I LOVE meeting people who have had this surgery and even the ones who are just interested in it. I thought I was gonna be the only one who is only going to lose 40 pounds---then this morning I weighed and it was -43. Works for me! I just have to accept the fact that I am a slow loser. I feel one hundred times better than I did at 275 (my highest)... My 2nd article comes out today in the Hattiesburg American. If you have access to it--Please read it. I mentioned this site. Maybe we can get some more posties!!

Hey There Sweetie, 43 lbs ??? Already ??? That is GRRRREEEEAAAT !!!!!!! Christine, I am so thrilled for you. That is just wonderful and I know that you are thrilled. What does hubby say about it ??? You know, I'm gonna have to go to Books A Million and see if they have that paper and just see what all you be telling on us... You are not out there telling the truth on us are ya ??? About us being a little crazy and off. If you do, thats ok too. It is soooo true.

Well, hubby is a little complicated. He says he is happy for me but I have noticed that he wants to be closer to me all the time and know where I am at all the time. I think he thinks I am going to leave him. He has yet to say ANYTHING about my weight loss. I am the one who brings it up and then he will comment. I dont expect anything from him on a daily basis but it would be nice for him to be excited for me. Everyone else comments except him and I dont understand why. We have always had a good marriage and I know he loves me with all his heart--I just think he is having a hard time with this and doesnt want to admit it. Oh well---eventually he will accept it or he wont. There is nothing I can do about it now and I wouldnt if I could. He just needs to overcome his insecurites SOON or we will be therapy. HAHA... I am excited! 275/266/223/160

Well Bless Your Heart Darling, Don't feel bad about it. I think that happens alot more than people like to mention. My neice is going through the same thing. She had WLS a little over a year ago. She has gone from a size 28W to a BIG OLD size 2. Yeah, thats right a size 2. Anyways, Dumbo ~ her hubby can't stand it. He just knows that she is cheating on him, sleeping with every man that comes along, planning on leaving, etc. He has even hit her. Not that, that is anything new. She is a dumb-A** for staying with him. There's a 6yr old involved and she wants it to work out. She worships the ground he stands on, waits on him and everything. And he still thinks she is up to No Good. I'm not really sure just which one is the dumbest of the two. She works all the time. Anywhere from 8-10 hours a day. Gets off work and goes home, takes care of everything in the house and Emily. And she even cooks 2 meals a day. She keeps a clean house better than anyone I've ever seen. She is only 23 yrs old. She doesn't have time to do anything she wants. But, somehow he thinks she finds time to cheat. However, I'd still leave. Right after I beat the life out of him....

My brother hits on his wife and he has done this for the past 8 years. He has very bad issues. He has been in and out of rehab, treated for depression and bipolar, etc... Anyway---she used to call me all the time and beg me to come get her and let her stay with us. I used to do this and EVERY time the next day she would go home to him. I finally had enough of it and told her--IF YOU DONT LEAVE HIM FOR GOOD BEFORE HE KILLS YOU---DONT COME TO ME COMPLAINING ABOUT IT. I just kinda felt like if you arent going to do anything about it then why are you complaining about it. I know it looks like I turned my back but theres only so much I can take--every time he did this I got dragged into it and ***** and raise hell at him and then they would make up and we would be fighting.... I wanted to kill him many many many times--for the number 1 reason that he does this in front of their 4 children. It scares me to know that one day when my neices and nephews grow up that the males are going to think its ok to hit a woman and the girls are gonna think its ok that they get hit on. ITS NOT OK! If I were your neice I would leave and take my child with me. But in saying that I have NEVER been in that position so I dont know. I just dont think its something I could live my life living with. Bless her heart... maybe things will get better or she will get wiser and walk away (for the babies sake).... Its sad...

Christine, Please don't think or feel like you have turned your back on her. You have not. If you keep steping up to help and she keeps walking back into it, then she is crazy and you have done all that you can. Other than Hog tie her and take her out of the situation. To me, living in a shelter is better than being beat on. I'd be out of there. Actually, he'd be out of the house, not me. His own family would get up in it. B/C they don't play at all. Maybe the kids in your brothers family won't pick it up. Pray that they don't anyways. Fighting isn't the key to a happy home. One day they will learn that, and maybe before it is too late. It is sad, but we can keep praying that their eyes will open.

Tammy, was-up with the negative vibe? You can't get stuck in the down of right now. You have to look for the good of now and focus on the incredible that is just around the corner from you. There is NO WAY that someone as dynamic passionate as you doesn't have the best just waiting to cover everything in your life like sunshine after a thunderstorm. Staying positive is an active decision, and hard work; You can do it. Sorry, that just kink-of bubbled up - anyway, hang in there!!! james.