Reflecting on Support Group Meeting-Long

yep, MacMadame inspired me with her internet account. I contacted her on line before surgery and got so much info. She was even kind enough to visit me in the hospital in San Jose when I had my surgery. So great because the surgery was so uneventful I was bored! So yes, the support element is very important and we all owe it to others to help out as we were helped. and it helps keep us honest too with our eating. gotta keep those skinny jeans fitting! no more worn out inseams!   Diane

And BTW Jimbo, looks like you are getting real close to goal. i sense a party somewhere........D

Diane, the San Jose group is the way to go.  If you let us know you are coming ahead of time, we should make a little party of it.  Maybe before or after the meeting.  We would love to see you here.

Don't break out the balloons and booze yet!  I keep revising my goal....so I am 8lbs away from my original goal  I set W/ Dr' C (299lbs)  I have revised it to 275-280lbs I feel that will be a good weight for me! (I'm 6' 2") I was 210lbs in the 7th grade! at (5' 10") A "normal BMI would be a weight range of like 180-207lbs!  for my height........not gonna happen!  At my 1 year follow up (It was at 15 months actually!)  Dr. C asked about my next goal when he sees me april....I said...."i'm trying to become half the man i used to be!"  (290lbs!)  I said I want to be there next follow up.  He said "That number was exactly what I was thinking!"  so  my next short term goal is 290lbs.....  16-17lbs at this point!  I just need to stay in the "losing mode" phase ya know?  I've been doing this for 15 months.....it is not easy!   If i had 200lbs to lose ....I would have been at goal in like 8-9 months!   My "reality" is 300lbs+....so  I just have to be patient, vigilant,  and mindful.....that I AM NOT at maintenence yet.   it is very easy to get complacent about this "journey'" and take "detours" that are NOT helping me get to my destination!  I sometimes feel like we are all on a trip to this great destination.....like Jamaica,, You all have arrived and are enjoying the sun, jerk chicken,, and rum punch........and i'm stuck in Wichita.....in a blizzard, and i am watching you all party in the sun from my roach infested motel room as I get video feed from you all in Jamaica!  But honestly i'm just happy to have started the trip,  and I know blizzard will let up eventually, and I will join the fun soon!  (seriously i'm very grateful for my succsess so far my life has been transrormed in ways too numerous to list!)   I'll see you soon on the beach.......save me some rum punch!

Hey Jimbo, very few have done what you have done and even though your losing phase continues you have every reason to celebrate and be proud of yourself. Lots of people with only 100 lbs to lose don't quite get there and I can tell you are going to get to that half of what you once were goal. No one has been more successful than you at this. As for the trip to Jamaica analogy, you are not in the roach motel in Wichita (and I have been to Wichita many times and it ain't that bad). YOu are more like in the taxi on the way to airport with ticket in hand. Only a little ways to go and you are on that beach with the rest. And those of us on that beach,( and I guess I am one as I am below goal and lost pretty close to half myself) we all have saggy skin and all our other faults and imperfections but celebrate being alive and in better health. And even though you are not quite to your goal you have come so far and you must feel about a million times better and be able to do so much more. I don't know if you have a blog page on OH but I am going to have my older brother look at it if you do. He is only about 5'9" and is close to 400 lbs with some comorbidities. I just had a big talk with him and he has seen my results and I think he isgoing to go ahead with this vsg in the midwest  which will be wonderful. So I need him to see inspriational stories and yours is one heck of one.

Anyway, keep the faith and all that. You are almost there. 17 lbs isn't much compared to how far you have come. I think i see you in the distance on that beach approach............ D

 
Come on Jimbo.........

I'm thinkin 275 is totally doable for you !!!!!

Time to...... Restart.....Refocus.... 

Basically continue what you have been doing with a Renewed vigor.......

You have been an incredible success story since I first met you.....

From where you came from.... another 30 or so pounds......piece a cake (pun intended)

I'm gonna be watching you a bit closer this new year.......

frisco

I love our support group meetings. I always learn something. The whole "exponential" expansion of the sleeve was new to me also but it makes so much sense and explains a lot of what I see on the boards.

(not in maintence yet but I lurk here, I hope that's OK)

When is the next meeting. I live in San Jose and would love to come even though I am not a patient of Dr. C

/unlurk

No lurking allowed!  I'm turning on my anti-lurk ray!   Hey I'm not at goal either!! (uh-oh!)   Dr.C's meeting is on the 19th? (they are on the 3rd Wed of the month).  They are held at Good Sam, (east parking lot, conference room trailers @ 6:30)  You don't have to be a patient to attend.