Renewed commitment!!!

I've been thinking of doing the Ruth thing and carrying a pre-op pic in my purse.  Then when I get the urge to eat something evil, I can pull that bad boy out and realize where I don't want to go back to!

LOL!! I have been doing that - I keep that ugly sucker in my purse!

Kim, you have done soooo good. I have no doubt that you will make your destination. Pictures are worth a thousand words...and at times can snap us back into a renewed state cuz we have seen with our own eyes exactly what everyone else sees. Now, just remember to remind me of the same thing...lol. Keep it up girl!

LaDetra 

LaDetra - I was just trying to catch up on emails and found your address.  I suck!  I never sent you that protein powder.  I'm sorry for promising and never following through.  I really am a better friend than that!

awwww girl, forget about....I know you are....I am not holding it against ya! I am glad to see how well you are doing

LaDetra

I'll buy you a nice, cold glass of ice water when I meet you some day! 

lol....u got it!! lol...I know u are a good friend, didnt think anything less

LaDetra

I still haven't looked at my pre op pics...maybe I will soon.  Or not.  LOL.  But sweetie-if I showed you a preop picture of me, would you say "eeek, what a cow?"  Please don't say that about yourself either.  I think you have to love who you were to love who you are and who you are becoming.  You really are terribly hard on yourself, and you don't need to be-you are fabulous, glittering person!

But yeah-I'm with you back off Mr. Christmas Cookie.  I will have dessert at the end of special meals (that include protien first) and keep to that strategy which has worked well for me.  Where I can go south in a hurry is a "just this once" I'll eat cookies FOR the meal.  I'm going to look for a part time job after the first of the year, in part to avoid the pre-holiday food blitz because it would be very uncomfortable to be the new girl AND refuse all the sweets.  Isn't it amazing how food rules our life? 

Kim, you have done awesome in your 6 months!!!  We all seem to remember those "bad" things we do and eat.  They stick out like a sore thumb and I'm SURE you have done more good things than bad...with food that is!!  I'm glad your motivation is renewed.  You're right we did pay big bucks for this and sure don't want to throw it away for those evil sweets and carbs.  I have carried a picture in my purse for a while now.  I look at it occasionally when I don't seem to be able to see the lighter version of me...my head hasn't caught up with the scale.  It does help my head some.  We have missed you at support meetings too and I WILL SEE YOU TOMORROW???  Just think...50 pounds gone will be here before you know it.

Yup!  I'll be at the party tomorrow night.  I never miss a good time!
You coming Friday night too?