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Well, MacMadame if you figure out how to get your husband interested in this let me know. My husband really needs it too. For a while I thought he was seriously considering it and went to several lapsf programs but he now thinks I am too thin and sees how little I eat and can't imagine living with that modest amound of food. He just doesn't get that I am totally satisfied with it. Just ate a 200 calorie blob of peanut butter which is my nightly treat. As mentioned , I got my older brother to consider this and he is going forward. Have tried to get him hooked up to chat with some of the guys on this forum. Maybe he will when he has surgery. Maybe if my brother gets a good result my husband will come around. I dunno, but I worry about being a premature widow too.
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I've never even been able to get mine to go o a seminar. Not even when I was considering it and I just wanted him to go to see what I was going through.
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Sorry for your loss of your aunt.
I have had a similar experience at school. I go to regular residencies (day long classes that go for anywhere from 2 days to 7 days) and we spend long days in a conference room listening to lectures. I cook my own food and bring it with me so that on breaks and lunch/dinners I have already eaten my food in class while listening to lectures so I can go workout.
Meanwhile my classmates all go out to eat on breaks or go smoke or have drinks at a bar (or all three), and I have felt isolated because I'm trying to make good choices and choose not to join them in those same bad habits that were killing me. But at the same time I miss out on tons of socializing opportunities and it is hard to make that choice sometimes.
One day I did go out with them to eat and it was really a lot of fun, but I ate junky restaurant food (made the best choices I could but it's still junky compared to my own home cooking) and didn't get my workout in that day.. never ended up being another time. I knew that going out with them like that had to be rare for me.. too easy to fall back into bad habits.
I think it is very hard when you are living a different lifestyle then people you love.. when you've changed your values and priorities and are committed to sticking with them, but it means that you don't have mu*****ommon with some folks that are in your life.
Well the other day my classmates and I came back from a break near the end of a long day where I had spent the whole break running steps. I was all pumped up and feeling great, and the professor looked around at all of the other students who looked like death warmed over, and made a comment about how everyone looked so tired.
I told her I was feeling very perky and it was at that moment I felt the reward of making good choices despite the isolation and the feelings of being an outcast and the missed social opportunities. As I looked around at their tired faces, some of them suffering from obesity as well as migraines and many other health conditions that might be attributed to lifestyle choices, etc.
I really felt better about missing out on those opportunities for socializing and my choices. As you said, it all adds up.. it all matters.. every choice we make. Sometimes it is hard to make good choices, but then there are moments where it hits you how rewarding it really is. Beautiful...
I have had a similar experience at school. I go to regular residencies (day long classes that go for anywhere from 2 days to 7 days) and we spend long days in a conference room listening to lectures. I cook my own food and bring it with me so that on breaks and lunch/dinners I have already eaten my food in class while listening to lectures so I can go workout.
Meanwhile my classmates all go out to eat on breaks or go smoke or have drinks at a bar (or all three), and I have felt isolated because I'm trying to make good choices and choose not to join them in those same bad habits that were killing me. But at the same time I miss out on tons of socializing opportunities and it is hard to make that choice sometimes.
One day I did go out with them to eat and it was really a lot of fun, but I ate junky restaurant food (made the best choices I could but it's still junky compared to my own home cooking) and didn't get my workout in that day.. never ended up being another time. I knew that going out with them like that had to be rare for me.. too easy to fall back into bad habits.
I think it is very hard when you are living a different lifestyle then people you love.. when you've changed your values and priorities and are committed to sticking with them, but it means that you don't have mu*****ommon with some folks that are in your life.
Well the other day my classmates and I came back from a break near the end of a long day where I had spent the whole break running steps. I was all pumped up and feeling great, and the professor looked around at all of the other students who looked like death warmed over, and made a comment about how everyone looked so tired.
I told her I was feeling very perky and it was at that moment I felt the reward of making good choices despite the isolation and the feelings of being an outcast and the missed social opportunities. As I looked around at their tired faces, some of them suffering from obesity as well as migraines and many other health conditions that might be attributed to lifestyle choices, etc.
I really felt better about missing out on those opportunities for socializing and my choices. As you said, it all adds up.. it all matters.. every choice we make. Sometimes it is hard to make good choices, but then there are moments where it hits you how rewarding it really is. Beautiful...
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Sorry for the loss of your aunt. It is difficul****ching people that we care about, continue with self-destructive behavior. I'm sure that people felt the same way about us, when we were wrestling with the obesity demon. For me, WLS is a very personal decision and it does change our live completely. A person has to be ready for those changes and sometimes the fear of change keeps people stuck in the same old rut. It is difficult to see the forest for the trees. I was more scared of diabetes, sleep apnea, cardiac problems, and joint issues, than I was of having the actual surgery. Now, those physical issues are gone. WLS has been the gift of health for me. Sometimes, I want to shout it, to the world, but everyone isn't ready to hear the message.
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