Thank You All for Embracing Me!!! And . . .

It is so incredible that you all welcomed me - Thank You!!!    In the intital months after Banded I don't really think I allowed myself to feel that I was "okay" if I wasn't doing well like everyone else with the Band.  I went to OA and felt like a fraud after confessing that I had had weight loss sugery (I'm terribly honest and sometimes I just put my foot - you know)- I felt snubbed and I don't think it was my imagination.  I too went to Weigh****chers and again felt like a fraud because I had this tool to help me and no one else did - just me  and I was a "cheat".  Besides that, the leader has lost 15lbs and kept it off - I could not relate to that.  Other women at the meeting talked about losing 7lbs WTF!  Anyways, I wasn't comfortable in my skin so how could I be comfortable in that type of external condidtion. This time around at the same meeting, I'm surrounded by other actors and singers - I'm excited!!!  The leader has lost and kept of 30lbs and she is so great that I can relate.  The second meeting I attend at 8:30 AM is rockin'.  I mean it feels like a real sisterhood and there are community people there, people who  have come due to ailments - WW is the last hope and I feel like I want to help them too.   I feel like I belong at WW this time.  You all made me feel like I'm okay here too.  Like I've got nothing to hide here even if I have had WLS, I am welcome. Thank you Guys & Dolls! Have a wonderful day. Oh, guess what?  I didn't throw it all away yesterday.  I didn't binge. I didn't overeat.  I went home after work and ate a ton of broccoli with 3/4 cup of brown rice.

Doesn't it feel great knowing YOU were the one under control, and not your food!

Just because you have a "tool" doesn't mean YOU aren't the one doing all the hard work there kiddo!  If someone calls you out on it.. you call them out on the diet pills and laxatives and even the rabbit food.  IT'S ALL A TOOL! I'm glad you found a group where you feel at home.  Trust me.. you'll always be welcomed here.  We may all have different ways of doing it, but our goals are the same.. no? God bless ya, kiddo..    Lori