I Am A Failure (with links) I'm sorry.

I am in love with that word.

^_^ LOL

Are you sure she's talking about you? The not taking vitamins and eating a donut even though you know it will make you dump doesn't sound like your normal modus operandi.

Be that as it may, I hate it when people think everyone is exactly like them and what works for them is the only way to do it. There are many paths to the same goal.

Maybe some people can never eat a donut again and still maintain their weight loss, but some people do better if they eat stuff like that once in a while. And not everyone has the same surgery so it's not like everyone who eats a donut is going to become violently ill either.

I had a couple of bites of the deserts at my company Holiday party and I don't even think of it as cheating because I don't really believe in cheating. Cheating implies that food is Good or Bad and that there are certain foods you aren't allowed to have ever again. I make choices and I try to make good ones more often than bad ones and keep my overall eating for the week under/over certain limits.

And it's perfectly possible to eat something not on someone else's "approved" list and do that. Donuts or Doritos wouldn't be my choice for such eating, but I've had a bite or two of other things that I'm sure would make the Food Police's hair stand on end.

Yep.  It was directed at me because I chose to join the WLS Channel and make a few videos.

Her crew does not think that I have any right to speak the WLS speak (whatever that is) at all because I am not like them.

I felt we were all the same until I read her board. 

Ha, I bet it's because you are EXACTLY like them that they are so bent out of shape. They just don't want to admit it.

A brand-new episode of Melting Mama's Reality Bites launches tomorrow.

Doh.

You are not a failure..you are REAL and a tru inspiration to many of us on OH!

MM, you are always honest in you writting and that's what we need. Not some crock of bull .

I read your post because you are honest and I have learned a few thing along the way too. I don't see anything wrong with a little indulgence. Everyone knows what their limits are. I do. I enjoy a donut sometimes myself.

We love you here. So don't even think about that goodie two shoes said. She probably does worse and lies about it.

So here's to Melting Mama. For telling it like it is, THE TRUTH. Not some unrealistic crap.      Thank You for your honesty.

Fat Asses unite!

Teresa

 Ahhh  we could easily let such thoughts get to us, if we really let them, M & M  ..    

 I pride myself on wearing my OH t-shirts on Fridays and weekends (had them made up myself by a local shop) ...  One day someone poinited out to me, rather tactfully, while I was wearing one of my OH shirts, whether 'Obesity Help" means I'm offiering it or seeking it ..         I had to think about this a bit, before I guess I realized that observation made sense, since I never did get below an "obese" BMI as a post-op (came within 20 or so pounds of just "overweight", but no cigar)  ..  Now I'm borderline MO again, thanks to almost a 30 lb. regain from my lowest weight  ..       It's like, "who am I to be trying to tell obese people how to lose weight?"    

  But before I kick myself in my still-ample azz a bit too hard, some of my friends remind me - whenever I bring this discouraging fact up - how far I have in fact come from the SSO 461-lb./61 BMI diabetic bag of fluid I used to be .    They still view my journey as a "success story" in their eyes ..   And you should too, despite any setbacks you've had along the way ..  

  (o.k. - "pep talk" over - now get your skinny azz outta here!    )      

Hi beth,

I am about to hit four years,  thanks to your witty posts,  I so don't beat myself up everyday over those indescretions that happen and I find my way.  Keep up the great work.

i admire your program, the good the bad and the ugly, just like me! keep it up
derek