I feel blessed and here's why...

Hello Donna,



You know I read your post and felt warm inside. I also wanted to thank you for the reply you wrote on my post. I've got to thank everyone else that also post replies that are at the bottom of your post. You ladies inspire me like ruby expires you. I saw ruby once or twice, and she is an inspiration, but when it comes to Donna, ruby, and newme2be she is second. You ladies rock. My BmI is 58 and reading your post makes me wanna lose some weight and I haven't even picked my doc yet (smile). I'm gonna try that protein shake thing you talked about, you did it and it worked so I'm gonna try it. Congrats on your weight loss, surgery date, and staying motivated and motivating me.



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 I am so happy to hear that you have a good support system and are taking a positive approach going into this.  I think a good attitude really helps on the other side of surgery.  Best of luck to you !

Hey Donna, I'm glad to know about the surgeries you've had. Bummer; they've been messing in your belly more than once, but the plan sounds great. I consider you to be just a KID at 45. That was a LONG time ago for me!

I like the folks here a lot. I like the warm fuzzy ones and the "tell it like it is" folks. Nobody seems malicious or out to make trouble on this board. I get the sense that we've all been through quite a bit over the years with our weight and we're ready for some kindness and compassion, but also TRUTH. I'm done with games (I hope) and deceiving myself.

I'm realizing that the quality of life that I have in my old age is up to me. I can do it really fat, or I can get some weight off. I don't want to be trouble for my family and I want to be as self sufficient as possible. Hmmmm, actually I plan to be SOME trouble for my family; after all, I deserve it!! But I'd like to be able to MOVE and clean house and travel and stuff like that.

Good luck shrinking your liver. I'm hoping mine is getting shrunken too. I don't know about you, but I never thought I'd have to think about my stupid liver so much. I'm not much of a drinker so I thought it was going to be one of the organs I could ignore, but noooo......

This is officially my first post, I have been lurking for months. I too have found a tremndous amount of support and information from OH and this board in particular.  Thank you all!

Okay I guess this is my first official post, after lurking for months,since apparently what I just did was post a reply to Rhonda.  I will get the hang if this I guess.  I just wanted to say that OH and in particular this site have been a tremendous support for me as well so thank you!  I hope to become more active here and able to return the favor at some point. I will post a message on the board to introduce myself and avoid thread jacking.

Hey I feel honored to have someone post for the first time off my post. I'm still figuring out how this thing works too. I'm not very technical. You have inspired me, I never did the real introduction thing. I might give that a whirl.