RE: Re: Postop hunger, etc.

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Hey Toni: You are still alive! Glad to see you post. You're doing great!!

Your Littermate...Flo

> ** Original Subject: RE: Re: Postop hunger, etc.

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> ** Original Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:51:09 -0400

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> > ,

> > I have a 5 year

> > old and a 4 year old and don't want them to bury me while they are

> in

> > their 20's. Thanks you guys for all the posts - they are wonderful.

> >

> > (pre-opper, BMI 48)

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> Dear ,

> I can't think of a better motivation for losing weight and getting

> healthy than for yourself and for your family. I'll be 45 this year

> and I too have a 5 year old and a 4 year old. Living long enough to

> see them go to college (heck, get out of grade school!), get married,

> make me a grandmother... those were good enough reasons for me to

> have this surgery. What else is there to live for if not to be there

> and be healthy for your family.

> I used to have anxiety about leaving my children motherless when they

> are still so young but now I have a better chance of fulfilling my

> dream of seeing them grow up and my anxiety has been replaced by

> hope.

> My eating is under control for the first time in a long time. I used

> to eat chocolate every single day and now I never even think about

> it. I used to take my kids out for ice cream 4x's a week so I could

> eat it and now they have to ask because it doesn't even cross my mind

> to eat ice cream. It's like I had brain surgery!!

> Go for it and don't let anyone tell you your motivation for

> having surgery is questionable.

>

> Sincerely,

> Toni Lieb

> MGB 5/31/00

> Then 296

> Now 259

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