Tankful Tursday

Welcome to the ultimate party of Thanks!!!! That’s right folks, it’s time for …

                 
  This week my thoughts are reminding me of all the people that have helped us out since we began our journey. It occurred to me while driving down the road and looking in my rear view mirror that we are all traveling down the same path, and someone was there before you were. 

I don’t know about you but sometimes I get lost. I would never admit that to my wife, but I do. Now when I get lost, I have to ask for help. Whether it’s from a map, my GPS, or that snaggle tooth man in overalls at the local filling station. But I have to ask for help.

So this week, I am "Tankful" for all those friends of mine that have helped me when I stumbled along the way. Am I through stumbling? Probably not, and I will once again reach out and ask for help.

So, for this weeks "Tankful Tursday", I am "Tankful" for those brave souls that forged the way in my weight loss journey. Without your help, guidance, support and honest friendship, I would not be the person I am today. 

So, what are you "Tankful" for today?  And as a special challenge, take a moment and send that human GPS that helped you the most a PM (private message) and let them know that you are "Tankful" for the guidance they provided! 

Let’s spread the "Tankfulness" out this week and make a difference!
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Today I am thankful for Mr. Clean Magic Erasers.  They can wipe away scuff marks when nothing else can.  Just swi**** across your tiles or linoleum and whalaaa!  It's gone. 

 

I wish we had a huge Magic Eraser so that we could erase things in our lives that we want to be gone.  But, we don't.  So we do our best to deal and go on.  No one said life would be fair, treat us right, etc.  Heck, even our bill of rights doesn't promise us happiness.  It allows us the right to PURSUE happiness.  Which tells me, as you are today Scott, that its up to ME if I am going to be happy. Right?

So I got up this morning, put my big panties on (NOT the 3X that I used to wear, LOL) and started another day in which I chose to be happy, and find the good things to be thankful for.  

 *I laid my head down on a pillow last night.  I was safe and warm with someone who loves me.  Many went to bed last night with yelling, screaming, after being hit and punched. Many didn't get to lay their head on a soft pillow but a rock or a rolled up coat.  They didn't have air conditioning but the outdoor heat which kept them tossing and turning all night.  They were in open air with no security or safety.

 

*I had plenty in my fridge to eat anytime I wanted it.  While some would look in it and ask "Is that all you have are drinks?" I see them as valuable meals (protein drinks and other hydration drinks) and they are what I love.  There are some who went to their fridge asking God for someone to help fill it, or place something in it so that they would have something to feed their children.

 *I got up this morning and took my daily shower.  This helps me feel clean and refreshed for the day, washing away all yesterday's grimy sorrows and regrets.  Today there are folks who don't have money to pay their water bills and will have their water shut off.  They live in a world of despair wondering how they will find the money to pay the bill and have the water turned back on again.

 I am very thankful and this reflection does my heart good.  Thank you for posting it.

I wanted to say that this post really touched me.. I need to remember these things!!

I am thankful for many things this week:

1st - I am in "ONEDERLAND" as of this morning.

2nd- my oldest son lost his wallet Tuesday night ( 5- 100 dollar bill inside) we were all sick to our stomach.  Out in the yard with flashlights till 11:00.  Went to bed asking God to shine his light on it the next morning.  Went outside and started looking- nothing yet, sick again.  Closed my eyes and asked God to please help me find this wallet.  Opened my eyes and looked down to see the wallet.  So I am very tankful we can ask God to help us find things.  Weather it be a wallet ( Thank you once again), or just the simple things like get me thur this day.

3rd- I am thankful for the 12 week break that I was given from work- and can say that I am ready to go back to work. 

There are many more things but I will share them later- MElissa

Melissa,

Congatulations on meeting your OneDerLand goal!

 

And thank goodness you found your son's wallet.  I would have been sick to death too.  I hate losing anything, especiallly money, and earrings! 

Thanks Melinda- Yes I was sick with worry till we found it.  Didn't sleep at all Tuesday Night. 

Seeing my dear gastric friend Kym on the board this week, then receiving a pm from Paula made me think a little more about what I am thankful for.  I want to say how thankful I am for 3 very special people.  I don't see them often, talk to one frequently but I am very affected and changed because of their WILLINGNESS to get involved in my life.

 Kym, Paula, and Susan 

When I got out of the hospital after being dehydrated and had a stricture, these 3 ladies came to my rescue.  Paula had me over to her home, where Susan and Kym were.  They each had all kinds of protein drinks to share with me.  some I hated, others I tolerated, and 3 I LOVED (Yay, Mocha Frappuccino!)  They showed me how to blend, mix, pulse, you name it.  I had a tiny tablet of paper and a pen and my hand hurt so cotton pickin bad by the time I left. I wrote notes galore!  And I went over, and over those notes so many times!  

Folks, I was desperate.  I am telling you that my protein level was not even at the low side.  It was on the dangerous side.  I was malnutritioned!  But they are my saving grace.  Paula hooked me up with Bariatric Eating and I practically LIVE there!  

I just want to say "thank you" to each of them on this Tankful Tursday.

I'm grateful for the two people who are with me on the forefront of this journey: my physicians assistant, Lynn Moreland, and my psychologist, Dr. Dianne Briscoe. They are with me when my friends, most of whom live far away, can't be and my family refuse to be. They are my cheerleaders and "reality adjusters." They lift me up when I'm down and help keep me to the straight and narrow. They are exactly the professionals I need to help me prepare myself for the new life ahead of me.

Rebecca

Some days it is not easy to be thankful, but thanx to Scott, I really try each Thursday! I am thankful for:
my neurosurgeon-Dr Ingraham- who will operate next Wednesday
my Lord and Savior-without Him I would be nowhere
my sweet hubby-he is always there for me, and nicer to me than I am to him
Onederland! Never thought it would get here!
My dear friends here on this board!
Short Term disability insurance-nuff said!

Marilyn

I have so much to be thankful for, but this week the #1 is that I'm one week out from surgeon and getting better every day.

B