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Topic: RE: My in-depth intro (long hopefully not too boring, feel free to skim)
Thanks for the kinds words and encouragement, I would say "you dont know how much that means to me" but then I realize you probably DO, which makes it even nicer!
I do hope you are right about my future success. On one hand I feel I will be successful because I feel like its my one chance out of this hell but on the other hand I am still having trouble trusting myself in this area because I have failed so many times before in getting this weight off and KEEPING it off.
Honestly, its hard for me to seek support or help but I am learning to do so because the truth is that I do need it. I cant tell myself that lie anymore (the one where I tell myself I can do this all by myself and I am strong enough alone).
BTW, I saw your you tube video. Very inspiring! You dont even look like you were ever heavy.
I do hope you are right about my future success. On one hand I feel I will be successful because I feel like its my one chance out of this hell but on the other hand I am still having trouble trusting myself in this area because I have failed so many times before in getting this weight off and KEEPING it off.
Honestly, its hard for me to seek support or help but I am learning to do so because the truth is that I do need it. I cant tell myself that lie anymore (the one where I tell myself I can do this all by myself and I am strong enough alone).
BTW, I saw your you tube video. Very inspiring! You dont even look like you were ever heavy.
'would rather get gunned down than dumbed down...K'naan
Topic: RE: Tell us about you!
Hey Sue!!
I would seriously love to hear your story and know more about you. I have seen some of your posts on other threads and think you have much to offer!!
Peace,
Therese
I would seriously love to hear your story and know more about you. I have seen some of your posts on other threads and think you have much to offer!!
Peace,
Therese
Topic: RE: Tell us about you!
Thanks Kate!
You are the perfect example of why research and being ready makes all the difference in your success! You took your time and decided on the right route for YOU and your success is crystal clear.
The other thing I have noticed the successful folks do is to support others going down the same path. You are excellent at this and I believe many have been helped and given some comfort as they embark on their band surgery (and other surgeries too!).
Thanks for always sharing your experience with honesty and integrity. I , for one-VERY much appreciate you!
Peace,
T
You are the perfect example of why research and being ready makes all the difference in your success! You took your time and decided on the right route for YOU and your success is crystal clear.
The other thing I have noticed the successful folks do is to support others going down the same path. You are excellent at this and I believe many have been helped and given some comfort as they embark on their band surgery (and other surgeries too!).
Thanks for always sharing your experience with honesty and integrity. I , for one-VERY much appreciate you!
Peace,
T
Topic: RE: My in-depth intro (long hopefully not too boring, feel free to skim)
This was neither too boring or too long! Thank you for posting such a thoughtful intro, it really touched me.
Two things we have in common. I was not large as a child or teen. However I did gain MOST of my weight with my son when I was 18. He just turned 25 on the 8th! Gasp!! After that-I couldn't get the weight off for any meaningful amount of time.
Remembering loving the wind and the beauty of the outdoors touching my skin! That made me tear up a bit. I also ended up hating all of it-as it reminded me of how DIFFERENT I had become. I still have to work hard to not be bummed when it's a sunny day. I have a bit of stuff to work on (I was so low for so long!).
I have probably said this to you before, but I have read and met MANY folks who were preparing for surgery-and by far you are one that stands out that I just KNOW will be successful. No doubts.
Peace and thanks for sharing~!
Therese
Two things we have in common. I was not large as a child or teen. However I did gain MOST of my weight with my son when I was 18. He just turned 25 on the 8th! Gasp!! After that-I couldn't get the weight off for any meaningful amount of time.
Remembering loving the wind and the beauty of the outdoors touching my skin! That made me tear up a bit. I also ended up hating all of it-as it reminded me of how DIFFERENT I had become. I still have to work hard to not be bummed when it's a sunny day. I have a bit of stuff to work on (I was so low for so long!).
I have probably said this to you before, but I have read and met MANY folks who were preparing for surgery-and by far you are one that stands out that I just KNOW will be successful. No doubts.
Peace and thanks for sharing~!
Therese
Topic: RE: A video of me on TV being interviewed.
Gaz!!!! I got my video working and went straight away to watch your news spot. WOW!! I was dead proud of you and made hubby watch too! He knows all about you because I am not the silent type and when I am inspired I make him come over to the laptop to check it out. You are a hero of my hubby, Ben , also!!
The other thing is this. I WANT TO NOMINATE YOU! I am going to send you a PM as well.
YOU still RULE THE SCHOOL Mr. G!!
Many thanks for the work you have done for others and especially for the work you have done for yourself. It's amazing how helping ourselves rewards so many others.
Peace and Hugs,
T
The other thing is this. I WANT TO NOMINATE YOU! I am going to send you a PM as well.
YOU still RULE THE SCHOOL Mr. G!!
Many thanks for the work you have done for others and especially for the work you have done for yourself. It's amazing how helping ourselves rewards so many others.
Peace and Hugs,
T
Topic: RE: Tell us about you!
Ruby, I have just made a very low sugar pudding! Gooseberry fool. But unfortunately i made it with a large carton of double Jersey cream and a tub or Greek yoghurt. So the fact that I only put in two spoons of sugar for the whole pudding probably doesn't count!!!!
But boy, was it good!!
The US posters all seem to have lots of f/f s/f desserts but in the UK we don't seem to have really gone that route. The WW things are not all that low cal, they are just tiny (and tasteless!). I did pick up a packet of no added sugar Angels Delight - not tried it yet, probalby revolting! The last time I tried even normal A D was about 20 years ago when my kids were small!
Kate
Ruby, I have just made a very low sugar pudding! Gooseberry fool. But unfortunately i made it with a large carton of double Jersey cream and a tub or Greek yoghurt. So the fact that I only put in two spoons of sugar for the whole pudding probably doesn't count!!!!
But boy, was it good!!
The US posters all seem to have lots of f/f s/f desserts but in the UK we don't seem to have really gone that route. The WW things are not all that low cal, they are just tiny (and tasteless!). I did pick up a packet of no added sugar Angels Delight - not tried it yet, probalby revolting! The last time I tried even normal A D was about 20 years ago when my kids were small!
Kate
Highest 290, Banded - 248 Lowest 139 (too thin!). Comfort zone 155-165.
Happily banded since May 2006. Regain of 28lbs 2013-14. ALL GONE!
But some has returned! Up to 175, argh! Off we go again,
Topic: My in-depth intro (long hopefully not too boring, feel free to skim)
I will try not to make this too boring or long.
I feel like my story is a bit different than most peoples. I havent always been fat or had weight problems. Most of my life I was rather small. In fact, I used to be very annoyed I couldnt find clothes that are small enough and now they seem to sell those small sizes everywhere!
I have gone from not being able to find sizes small enough to not being able to find sizes big enough. That just *cant* be good for my health.
I am only 5 ft and most of my life weighed 95 to 105. I didnt think about my weight at all. I didnt enjoy being thin, its the only condition I knew really. While my food choices didnt make me fat, I never really focused on my HEALTH HABITS and they were actually bad and certainly were bound to catch up with me. I drank lots of soda, was a smoker and ate junk food (i just wasnt hungry very often and could get full rather fast).
Somewhere around age 35 I took a job that paid ridiculous amounts of money and had great benefits. It was a job that tied me to a chair though and I started to gain weight. It wasnt so much at first, it was maybe 10 lbs at first. That seemed to grow to 30 lbs somewhere along the line. Then I quit smoking...that DID IT. I was already starting to see weight gain and increased appetite and cravings before quitting and afterwards it was out of control. Maybe there is also some transfer addiction from smoking to food going on.
I would diet and drop weight but soon I wasnt able to reach my goal weight anymore and regaining it all back PLUS some. I stopped trusting myself completely. I no longer believed that this new attempt to diet and change my eating habits would result in weight loss that would stay. I have changed my eating habits a great deal and I am glad about that, but it hasnt resulted in me getting my weight down. Its probably helped me not weigh even more than I do and its probably whats kept me from developing a co-morbidity (for now anyway, that would also probably occur sooner or later).
I have boxes and boxes of clothes from my thinner days, I could never bring myself to throw them out. To do so would be admitting defeat and that I could never get back there again. I feel trapped inside this body, like its not even mine!
I used to live in Virginia beach (early 20's) and I used to go to the beach every morning for sunrise. I loved just standing there and feeling the wind on my skin...now I hate it. It makes my clothes press against my fat. I want to enjoy feeling the wind again. I live in this beautiful country of sweden where you can really enjoy the outdoors but for me the outdoors is a constant reminder of just how fat and uncomfortable I am, I am missing out on my own life.
I feel like my story is a bit different than most peoples. I havent always been fat or had weight problems. Most of my life I was rather small. In fact, I used to be very annoyed I couldnt find clothes that are small enough and now they seem to sell those small sizes everywhere!
I have gone from not being able to find sizes small enough to not being able to find sizes big enough. That just *cant* be good for my health.
I am only 5 ft and most of my life weighed 95 to 105. I didnt think about my weight at all. I didnt enjoy being thin, its the only condition I knew really. While my food choices didnt make me fat, I never really focused on my HEALTH HABITS and they were actually bad and certainly were bound to catch up with me. I drank lots of soda, was a smoker and ate junk food (i just wasnt hungry very often and could get full rather fast).
Somewhere around age 35 I took a job that paid ridiculous amounts of money and had great benefits. It was a job that tied me to a chair though and I started to gain weight. It wasnt so much at first, it was maybe 10 lbs at first. That seemed to grow to 30 lbs somewhere along the line. Then I quit smoking...that DID IT. I was already starting to see weight gain and increased appetite and cravings before quitting and afterwards it was out of control. Maybe there is also some transfer addiction from smoking to food going on.
I would diet and drop weight but soon I wasnt able to reach my goal weight anymore and regaining it all back PLUS some. I stopped trusting myself completely. I no longer believed that this new attempt to diet and change my eating habits would result in weight loss that would stay. I have changed my eating habits a great deal and I am glad about that, but it hasnt resulted in me getting my weight down. Its probably helped me not weigh even more than I do and its probably whats kept me from developing a co-morbidity (for now anyway, that would also probably occur sooner or later).
I have boxes and boxes of clothes from my thinner days, I could never bring myself to throw them out. To do so would be admitting defeat and that I could never get back there again. I feel trapped inside this body, like its not even mine!
I used to live in Virginia beach (early 20's) and I used to go to the beach every morning for sunrise. I loved just standing there and feeling the wind on my skin...now I hate it. It makes my clothes press against my fat. I want to enjoy feeling the wind again. I live in this beautiful country of sweden where you can really enjoy the outdoors but for me the outdoors is a constant reminder of just how fat and uncomfortable I am, I am missing out on my own life.
'would rather get gunned down than dumbed down...K'naan
Topic: RE: Tell us about you!
Desserts are most definitely my downfall. I swear they actually VERBALLY call to me. I am going to try and find what desserts I can make that are low sugar but still tasty (like the chocolate tofu pudding is) because its the only way they can stay in my life!
'would rather get gunned down than dumbed down...K'naan
Topic: RE: Tell us about you!
Time is creeping up! I get to call in the beginning of august to ask for my surgery date and to me that translates to "call us on August 1st"! LOL!
I am also nervous of course. I am a wuss about any sorts of discomfort but am old enough to have learned that I just gotta suck it up.
I realized the other day that I am waiting for my surgery and my life feels "on hold". The "on-hold" is my own doing I know....yet I dont feel strong enough to change it. Its rather amazing how this fat affects so many areas of my life!
I might try to get the recipe blog going even before surgery. If I do I will post it here and the ingredients will always be rather basic, and therefore, will at least be stuff we can all get on this side of the world without ordering from the US :)
I am also nervous of course. I am a wuss about any sorts of discomfort but am old enough to have learned that I just gotta suck it up.
I realized the other day that I am waiting for my surgery and my life feels "on hold". The "on-hold" is my own doing I know....yet I dont feel strong enough to change it. Its rather amazing how this fat affects so many areas of my life!
I might try to get the recipe blog going even before surgery. If I do I will post it here and the ingredients will always be rather basic, and therefore, will at least be stuff we can all get on this side of the world without ordering from the US :)
'would rather get gunned down than dumbed down...K'naan
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