Rosemary says Thanks!

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I sure do Beth, But I'm counting points like I did when I went to WW (smile,

!) and hanging in! I put my scales in the closet (well actually my

kids hid them from me! (bigger smile here) ) so now I don't know how I'm

doing. I decided I'd go by something my mom use to say, no news is good

news! Since I have no way of knowing how I'm doing I just have to say I'm

doing everything I can, and since I have no news it must be good! LOL

Thanks everybody for being so concerned over me. I was at the bottom of the

barrel thinking I was in there all alone! Dr. R even wrote, and wants to

see me in clinic. Wonder if he thinks I'm going mental on him????

Like everybody said, it will be okay, and as long as I do my part I'll get

where the Good Lord wants me to be!

It finally got warm enough for me to pull out some of the shorts you guys

sent me back in the winter. When I received them I thought, AS IF, I'll

ever fit in these tiny things!!!!!!!!!!!! Well I'm wearing some of them

now, and this is the first summer in my lifetime (honestly) that I can wear

shorts and walk and they don't roll up between by thighs! Anybody with fat

thighs feels my pain here!!!!!!!!!! It really felt good to go on my walk

and not fight the shorts! LOL

Feeling much better in NC!

Thanks to all you guys,

Rosemary Locklear

Ellen and

> Wow! I am so encouraged by your updates!

> And sadly, I constantly need encouragement. From the moment

> I stepped on the scales at Clinic and could not weigh because

> the scale only went up to 350 and after surgery when they still

> could not weigh me after one week of liquids....well from that

> moment on I feared that the MGB would not work for me. I mean

> I thought I was not THAT much over 350 when I had surgery and I

> fully expected to weigh in at under 350 at clinic.....but that was not

> the case.

> Still after 9 months and 112 pounds lost, privately I post to

> friends that I am worried. They are so generous with their praise

> for my pounds lost and they are so supportive in their

> encouragement to lose the other 100, however, nothing they can

> say really settles my fears.

> Nothing anyone says settles my fears completely, (Rosemary,

> you know what I mean don't you?)......but letters like yours at least

> calms those fears and allows me the freedom of dreaming that

> one day I might just make it.

> Thanks to you guys for posting your results and your surgical

> info.....and thanks to ALL the post ops who offer daily

> affirmations. This is such a great group!

>

> Warmly,

> Beth in Florida

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