Umber

          WHERE ARE YA??????

I was wondering the same thing!  I hope she's doing great!

Broken stupid blankety-blank-blank computer.   I am out here, though, and doing great.  Up to walking ALOT again, almost as quick as pre-surg.  Lost 27lbs since my surgery date of 3/25.  Feeling pretty good most of the time, still more tierd than usual but that will come.   I'm stage Four on the eating phases, and need to book an appointment to see the NUT next week.  I am back to being the head-cook-and-bottle-washer for my family and doing the usual running around - four kids - one in lacross, two in softball and gymnastics.  So I guess I feel alot like myself minus having a meaningful relationship with food.   The weight loss is nice, I've dropped a size.  Some days I don't focus on it much, other days I feel kinda depressed.  Food and I are going through a messy divorce.  And while we had a very mutually abusive relationship, still any divorce is complicated and we're been invovled for 34 years, so I expected to have some issues.  For the most part I have plenty of other things to focus on, but occasionally I let myself get meloncholy about it.  After all, in order to let it go I have to let myself feel my emotions.  It's not like I can eat them anymore.  ;-) On the up side, I hit my halfway point yesterday.  Since I started all this and made my decision the day after Christmas, I have lost 50lbs total.  And still have 50lbs to go.  For being six weeks out on Tuesday, I'm good with that! Will be online when and if I can get to a computer, but I am at all the support meetings in Portsmouth and the post-op ones, too.  And saving up for a new laptop now, but...shrug...probably be another month before have enough. 

It's good to hear from you! Your analogy about the divorce is perfect.