Hey Kim, here's a newsflash...HE'S YOUR GOVERNOR -- HE SPEAKS FOR ALL OF YOU!!!!!!!!

Get it?

He should have been removed from office for those statements before he left the podium.

I'm a (atheist) Jew and I find his comments deeply, deeply offensive for an elected official in the United States to have made.

Are you offended? 

Take some personal responsibility here.

I respect your opinion about the remarks made by a PERSON, but I do believe it a bit overly dramatic to ASSUME the ENTIRE State is disgusting because of this person's remarks.

I'll bet there are people of many opinions in your State--I don't hate your entire State because I don't agree with some of them.

As Americans, we have the right to freedom of speech and religion.....therefore I celebrate the right of everyone to express how they feel--even if I don't always agree.

Have an awesome day from the great State of Alabama!!

Kim

Hi Renee,

Welcome home!!!  I have thought about you often and wondered how you were doing.

I know you went through a terrible loss and that can add to the stress eating.  Personally, when I started to regain, I realized I had not dealt with some of my head issues...the reasons I stress eat.  Counseling helped alot.  I found that I had never stopped the night eating...waking after a couple of hours and eating...all night long. 

I did that throughout my recovery from WLS...but all I could eat was SF Popsicles so it didn't affect my weight loss.  When I was able to  eat again, I started eating other 'legal' or somewhat 'legal' things but eating thing all night long the calories added up and the weight piled on.  I went from my low of 150 back up to 218.  Going over 200 was terrifying.

I did not want to take a sleeping pill for fear of continuing the night eating.  I had heard how some people eat, call others, and even drive on Ambien and Lunesta and don't remembeit.  I didn't need anything like that.  The doctor put me on an additional antidepressant...Trazadone (sp) that is used to help one sleep.  I  knew someone else who used it and assured me it was fine.  I started on it and over the next few months I was back down to 175...a comfortable weight.  I don't always take the Trazadone and I have gained about 15 lbs again.  I was holding steady between 178-182 and in a size 14.  I have eased up to the high180s and even tipped the scale at 192.6 this morning fully clothed. (I usually weigh in my birthday suit)  That has my attention again, so I know I have to get back on track with my sleeping.

Find out what your issue is and find a way to deal with it.  That way you don't have to really diet, just eat for the right reasons and it will come off.  This is my opinion...I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on tv!!    I just wanted to let you know that it isn't always discipline...it is sometimes the reason we eat and the reason we eat what we eat when we eat it.

I hope this has been some help to you.  It really is good to see you back on the Bama Board.  Let us know how it is going.  I KNOW you can get those 30 lbs off.  Good luck! 

I only weigh on Friday morning.  I keep the scale in the basement so I have to go downstairs to use it.  I've never really been scale obsessed....I now just do it to make sure I am in maintenance and not gaining....I allow a 6 lb range where I know I am comfortable...if I go over it, I cut back a bit.

Kim

Right after my surgery i would get on the scales every morning. It was fun to see the scales go down everyday.  THe week that the scles didnt move it was because i was loseing inches.  I eventually had to quit getting on thescales  everyday like after 1 year. so if you are not loseing weight you are loseing inches.  Dont let the scales control you.  I just go by what my clothes feel like these days.