YUMMMMMM....enough said.  EnjoY!

First of all, I want to say that I am sorry for being SO slack and not posting on here. I can speak for several of the upstater's in saying that when we found out people at our dr's office were "snooping" on us on here it kind of put a damper on things. Kind of makes you second guess everything you say or do on here, which shouldn't be how it is! This should be our place to place our frustrations, our outings, our accomplishments and our struggles without feeling like we're being watched. But besides that, I do miss everyone on here very badly and ALL of my upstate people!!! I haven't seen anyone in forever and feel like we lost a GREAT thing in having our meetings and get togethers! I know first hand how HECTIC life is.. Life for me is a whirlwind and so busy I barely have time to stop and breathe it feels like sometimes! I know alot of the upstaters have alot of things going on in life right now and that is reason enough to be so busy.. I think we should all get together for a big summer bash though sometime soon! I miss seeing everyone from the LCBB post on here as well! Dang we used to go on vacations together now we never speak! Life flies by.. my "baby" just turned 3, and my oldest is turning 6 this year! Hard to believe my youngest wasn't even 1 when I had surgery and 2 years has flown by so fast. i hate the struggle of being a fat girl at heart. I have gone back to my bad eating habits and not ordering the healthy stuff and i can tell it in my clothes. I am avoiding the scales again.. I think alot of us have had some struggles with 10 lbs or so and it drives me nuts really. I had a bad scare with my labs, my ferritin was less than 1, and my B12 was 140.. so now I'm on extra vitamins bc i was SO slack AGAIN with my vitamins. Please if nothing yall, take the vitamins. I'm facing neurological damage and even worse from being negligent. If the numbers don't improve I will be faced with iron infusions etc.. So take from my mistakes, once again.. I'm a moron! :)  And Mary!!! We aren't leaving you out of anything sweetie!!! :D No one has gotten together in ages it seems! I miss you all so much and want to see everyone. Maybe in a couple of weeks when my life might slow down a hair, We can all get together.. I hope maybe this post will bring some of the Old regulars back out if nothing else for an update!!! I'm sure everyone would love to see your pretty faces again! Just because I don't reply much I am still reading often to see how everyone is!!! I am in a "Funk" of sorts and just honestly don't feel very social.. I hope to get out of that soon! I miss you all!
jen

Can't wait see you there

I joined too.  Will see you at the start line.

What a great post.  I think that you have said exactly what I've been thinking.  You go into the surgery having read and researched everything you have and you think you are all ready.  I figured that I would never be the one to have trouble with the last ten pounds, to have the marriage problems or to struggle without my former best friend FOOD.
   Yet I too am struggling with all of this.  I miss horribly all of my WLS friends, we had this tremendous bond as we had the surgery and lost weight together.  I think now we are all so busy with living life again that we just don't make the time to give and get that support and its so dangerous.  I've found that it is SO easy to slip back into my old habits.  I don't eat the five small meals anymore and I don't dump at all which is scary.  I have maintained my lowest weight within 5 pounds but have to work HARD at it.
   I would do the surgery over again in a second but I wish I could just skip the past year.
Thanks for the great post
mary