Guest guest Posted April 29, 2001 Report Share Posted April 29, 2001 The night before I left to fly out to have my surgery I went out to dinner with friends. After dinner I ran into a co-worker at the restaurant, she is also morbidly obese. Her comment is that she wouldn't dream of having surgery, it was so drastic, she thought I was insane to fly across the country to do this. Now it is three months later and we haven't really talked about the surgery. She is in school and under stress and worried about her health, but she said she was going to start her diet again " as soon as things settle down " . I thought how many times have I said that. As soon as things settle down I will go back on my diet, or having a stressful event cause me to go off my diet. This surgery will always be with me, throughout my life, there will not be a stressful event that I will decide to go off my surgery for a while. I have lost 50 pounds in less than three months, that is 50 pounds that I will never weigh again. Today, I showed her my scars from the DS and my TT, she was shocked, again she though I was insane to let a doctor do this to me. I have my scars but I think that they remind me were I have been. I carry the war wounds from a lifelong battle with weight. I have scars that a Viking would be proud of. Do I mind, no, I will eventually become smaller than her. I will be normal for the rest of my life. She will still be struggling to go on a diet, go off, start up again. To me that is insane. Teri Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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