Thank you and welcome!!!

I wanted to start out by saying thank you for joining the group.  I hope that it is beneficial in the way of getting to know others that are single.  I know from my experience that I am having a hard time getting back into the dating scene and have no where to turn to meet new people.  I live in a very small town and the next biggest towns do not have good places to meet people (bars, not interested). 

I am hoping that we keep this group active in getting to know each other.  I thought what a better place then here for us to meet singles that have at least one thing in common and then moving on from there.  I have found that with the lifestyle change that I have made because of my decision to have RNY, that it is hard for some to grasp at the fact that we are not the same people that we were before.  Yes we are the same people, but we have changed in one shape or form.  I think that alot of people do not know enough information about the types of obesity and what it can do to your body and life.  Then when you try to better yourself healthwise, it seems that there is someone there to take you down.  That is what I am finding.

I have some friends (and yes I still call them friends, because I would have no one if I did not) who always wanted to go out and have a good time when I was heavier.  I was always the "fat friend" and they knew that there was not any competition for men.  Now that I am the "skinny friend" they (none of them) have asked me to go out at all.  I think that they are afraid that I might be approached instead of them.  My intention is not to go out and block all of my friends from meeting others who might find them attractive.  I just like to go to have fun, normally dancing and socializing. 

So now that is a little about me and I hope that you post often, and PLEASE tell your friends about this group so we can keep it alive.