Shoulda,Coulda, & Woulda

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Hello Everyone;

I have been beating my self up really bad lately and tonight I went

to the Kaiser meeting at Deer Valley and it was cancelled so I need

to vent a little I hope it is okay. When I had surgery 3 years ago I

didn't have to through the nutrition classes or loose 10% of my

weight as a matter of fact I weighed more when I had surgery than I

did when I saw Dr. Zorn in Nov. of 2002. I was pretty smug in the

fact I didn't have to go through all the steps how wrong that was

because I never really fully understood the reality of all the true

life changes I would be making. I do not have any clue why I was

just put through. So I have no answers to that question.

Now for the SHOULDA I should have really listened with open ears and

mind when they said no sugars eat your protein first then your other

foods. Most important that you will loose half the amount of weight

you need to loose in the first 6 months and the next 6 months you

will loose only 1/3 to 1/2 of what is left to loose after one year

you work as hard as you did before surgery to get the weight

off.Exercise and strength training is very important for body fat to

burn itself off how true now that I'm exercising and eating my

protein I'm loosing again!! I COULDA been at a weight that I want to

be at if I WOULDA really listened to the doctor and his staff. By

the way They said in San Diego that my goal weight was 240 lbs

because that is all the weight my body would loose. I'm at their

goal right now but I believe I can loose this other 100 lbs and that

is my mission right now. I have a hard time with food about 3 bites

and I'm done with food so I really do mostly drinks now, well for

the past 3 weeks any how. There will be no more Mochas for me and no

more sugars of any kind.In 3 years I have never gained any weight

back not even a pound so I feel very fortunate for this.

Thanks everyone for letting me vent surgery weight 428lbs 02/21/2003

today 240lbs 100lbs to go.