Good Morning. Introduce yourselves LWs!

Hey Gina!!  Didn't mean to hijack this morning's feel good post...but it made me feel better and for the next 8 weeks it's all about me.  I'm working on healing these "burns" and hoping to not scar too badly.  LOL.  I think I'm gonna be okay.  We've got some pretty good "caregivers" here on the lw board. 

Julie - I'm SO glad you posted this.  I'm where you're at right now and having a difficult time.  I to have realized I'm addicted to food -never thought I was - but it seems its again all I think about, what's for dinner, etc.  Snacking is my nemisis and I'm trying to curb it.

I know my tool will work IF I work it!  I have to stay motivated and remember where I WAS and don't want to ever go back there again!!

Good to see  you again! 

Let's keep the faith Jody!!  At least we're acknowledging our "issues" so that's got to be a step in the right direction.  lol.

Hang in there!!

shammy,

not sure what or if there is a connection to the tonsils being removed...I only remember that I began gaining weight after that point and my mom put me on multiple diets from that point on...both of my parents are overweight and I know much of my weight was lifestyle and little exercise--I have talked to at least one other person that their daughter had their tonsils removed and began gaining weight also...so who knows...coincidence?...I like to blame it on that, but really it comes down to calories in and calories burned...I am a sugar addict--abstaining for the past year so that it does not have the same hold on me now...but I know it is and will always be there...so I try not to play with fire!!  BTW--I have tons of alovera if anyone needs!!LOL

julie

Hello everyone! My name is Chris (short for Christine) and my nickname BrowningBabe I gave myself because I had just bought a Browning shotgun for deer hunting when I signed up to OH. I am 40 and a Registered Nurse at a Naval Clinic in Great Lakes, IL. My husband has been in the Navy almost 25 years now and retires in April 2011.  We bought a house in Pleasant Prairie, WI a couple months ago and we love it! We've been married going on 3 years now. I'm originally from Corpus Christi, TX  and met my hubby when he was stationed in Ingleside, TX. We transferred to IL in Feb. 2007. We have 6 kids between us. My son is 23 and my daughter turns 16 in July. Hubby has 12yr old twins (boy and girl) who turn 13 in July, a 14yr old daughter, and a 19 yr old son.  We currently have 4 of them for the summer. My daughter now lives with us, the rest of our kiddos all live in Texas.

I had RNY January 5, 2010 after my doctor (who I also work with) suggested it to me. He had already put me on 3 blood pressure medications.  After many years of yo yo dieting, the weight was getting harder and harder to get off and so after careful thought, I decided to take my doctor's advice. I want to lose another 36 pounds to reach my personal goal of 130.

Hobbies are boating, hunting, hiking, road trips, shopping, attending concerts and just spending evenings on our back patio bbq'ing and spending time with hubby and family.

Chirs,

You are in my neck of the woods!  I live on the north side of Kenosha  :)

Hi Lori!  Yep we are close!  We go to Kenosha for all of our shopping and activities. I can't believe how huge Woodman's grocery is!

I'm one of those readers who doesn't post much.
Revised from SRVG+VBG to Rny on 3 Feb 2008.
Back in '93 I weighed 120K on 5ft.
I am now 47 and weigh about 78-80K.
I wish I could lose another 10K.
Due to ankle surgeries (hence my name of Godzilla from each cast being made huger than the last one), I "neglect" to move my body much.
Mikimi in Israel

Hi all! Gayla here!

Not sure what it takes to be an LW but I am 5'3" and started at 258, today I weighed 218!!!! 40 gone since pre-op diet and surgery! Had lap RNY on May 11, 2010.

I am 44, have great support from Ceciln on here, my sweetheart and RNY post op for 6+ years. I have a son going into 8th grade and I am a computer info professor at a university here in town.

I debated on surgery for several years, but after I met Cecil, I knew with his support and the doc he used I could do it! So far so good!

Not sure, but I am thinking my transfer addiction is going to be shopping! LOL
 
Great to "meet" all of you here!

Gayla

I'm glad to meet you too and glad everything is going so well.

--g