Don't hate me...

yes, you have my support. I think you will be very happy!

Thanks Neecee

How CAN YOU??? hehe, just kidding.  Now c'mon, why would we hate you?  We don't hate Shari or Janina!!!  There is a goal that all of us have here.  Lose weight and become healthier.  I once said if I had to drink a jug of cow **** a day to lose weight I would.  (Thank god it never came to that, LOL) Like everyone else said, take time with it and make sure it's the right decision.  But more importantly you have to learn to love YOU before you change you.

Happy journey!!!

Whew!!!  I was like the board is gonna hate me because I am contemplating jumping ship.... LOL.... Thank you for the support... I am gonna need it (as usual)    Oh yeah... glad we do not have to drink cow **** that would suck something serious!!!

Wait 'til you're on the post-op diet--- you'll look FORWARD to the cow **** (P.S.   A hint-- make smoothees! )

Do cow **** smothies taste like bacon cheeseburgers by chance? LOL

If only! Okay-- apropos of nothing-- I'm not even a bacon cheeseburger  eater-- but I just saw an ad for this heinous Wendy's "Baconator" (6 slices of bacon, 2 patties, I dunno, ten poundsa cheese?) and was vaguely annoyed I'll never have one. I stand at the Ben and Jerry's case and yell, "YOU COMMIE LIBBO *******S! I'LL NEVER HAVE THAT!" every time a new flavor comes out, too... I mean, food was good enough-- bu****ching Alton Brown or Paula Deen improve on it? Madness! ;)

Hey Shari, You know something, I've given this stuff a LOT of thought.  I look at the people on the Food Porn Network and wonder why they aren't huge.  I mean, hell, anyone around food all the time should be the size of a small building, no?  I don't know if it was the enjoyment of food that got me over 350 pounds or the presence of food. I have been having a lot of head conversations about food these days.  I look at people eating half-heartedly and wonder "why aren't you enjoying that, doesn't it taste good?"  I have been really checking out the way people feel about food and it's been confusing to me.  I know I am simply a food addict, in large quantities, not for taste but for sedation.  What I wouldn't do to be someone who looks at food as a way to survive instead of as recreation. I'm probably confusing people here but your post made me think.  I wish I could go to Wendys and get a baconator and take a bite or two for taste and say "oh that was good, I'm stuffed."  More likely than not I would eat one, plus the fries and then die a slow painful death from the pain.  Ben and Jerrys better NOT come out with any more flavors or I'm visiting their factory.  I can't eat icecream in moderation either.  Christ, I can't do anything in moderation.  Exercising, cleaning my house, paying my bills, it's all a practice in obsessiveness. Again, I need a psychologist!!!

DonnaMarie, I think that the people on the Food Porn Network (LOVE IT!) stays smaller because they are sick to death of seeing, smelling, and preparing all that damn food.  I know when I was in food service I couldn't eat at work because I had smelt that food all day long, and I couldn't eat when I got home because I sure didn't want to look at food after work!  I got down to 150 lbs. while working food service.  Not that being said, my DD works food service and that isn't the case for her.  I think to her it's like, hey I can eat it, and I don't have to pay for it.

That's funny-- I had the OPPOSITE experience. In college, I worked at a Roy Rogers restaurant and then the midnight shift in a deli...and in 5 years packed on 70 pounds. I ate the same thing every single day and loved it every single day.  I am a mutant.