Guest guest Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Amen Jeff!!!!! I couldn't have said it better myself. Laurette 4/23/04 open RNY 309/290/248/150 St. Charity Cleveland, Ohio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 Jeff, That is well said. Thank you. Dora Hard Work! Hello Everybody! I want to thank everybody for their support! It has been a L O N G R O A D. I want everybody to know that regardless to what others say, we are doing this for us. I have heard some of the comments going around about " Taking the easy way out " well let me tell you if laying in the hospital with your stomach ripped open and having the epidural fail and getting sick on the pain medicine is easy, well I hate to see what is hard. Folks believe in yourself! If you believe it in your mind and find it in your heart you will succeed! We all have our reasons for being big, large etc. for those of us who have changed remember we still are the same people just smaller. What I think that is funny is that woman find me attractive and stare. My feelings are you can look but I am still the same person at 260 as I was at 560 when you looked and turned your nose up in disgust. Be good to your self people. We all are beautiful people, wither we are a size 5X or an XL. The people who looked at us in disgust or whispered to others as we walked by do not deserve our time. Remember your old friends and share your story with new. Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 ---AMEN BROTHER! The fact of the matter is that the surgery is just the beginning. I spoke of my demon earlier this morning. It still lives in me just as strong today as the day I had my surgery. Sometimes when I think about how horrible I used to feel it would be the same as death to go back to that way of living, if you could call it living. responded so well to what I wrote in my post. I keep thinking am I so different from everyone else that I cannot get below 200 and live normally? Food is still an obession with me. I want to get back on track so badly. Of course I cannot eat as I once did but I feel as if I am living on the edge. My surgeon did not require any type of psy. eval. at the time I had my surgery. But if anyone think's this is the easy way out they are nuts. The urge will always live inside me. I only wish I could find a " easy " to kill my demon. Gastric_Bypass_Family , " Jeff " <cash_premo@y...> wrote: > Hello Everybody! > I want to thank everybody for their support! > It has been a L O N G R O A D. I want everybody to know that > regardless to what others say, we are doing this for us. I have > heard some of the comments going around about " Taking the easy way > out " well let me tell you if laying in the hospital with your > stomach ripped open and having the epidural fail and getting sick on > the pain medicine is easy, well I hate to see what is hard. > > Folks believe in yourself! If you believe it in your mind and find > it in your heart you will succeed! > We all have our reasons for being big, large etc. for those of us > who have changed remember we still are the same people just > smaller. What I think that is funny is that woman find me > attractive and stare. My feelings are you can look but I am still > the same person at 260 as I was at 560 when you looked and turned > your nose up in disgust. Be good to your self people. We all are > beautiful people, wither we are a size 5X or an XL. The people who > looked at us in disgust or whispered to others as we walked by do > not deserve our time. Remember your old friends and share your story > with new. > > Jeff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 13, 2004 Report Share Posted July 13, 2004 What I think that is funny is that woman find me > attractive and stare. My feelings are you can look but I am still > the same person at 260 as I was at 560 when you looked and turned > your nose up in disgust. Be good to your self people. We all are > beautiful people, wither we are a size 5X or an XL. The people who > looked at us in disgust or whispered to others as we walked by do > not deserve our time. Remember your old friends and share your story > with new. > > Jeff ======================= I used to feel the same way, but haven't had the benefit of losing weight yet. It is a fact of life that we are judged on our appearances. As overweight as I am, I myself do not look at overweight men as attractive. I find " normal " sized people attractive. I am sure that I will get more noticed once I am thinner. It is genetically coded evolution to find attractive a healthly looking person. Now, if this one guy who shows utter contempt for me now starts talking to me and trying to be best buds, forget him! But everyone else treats me as a normal human being, so I feel pretty lucky ( at work ). I tease my husband that I will leave him for a younger man when I get thin, but will I ever find a man do take care of me the same way my husband did when I was ( am ) too fat to shave my legs, or trim my toenails, etc. NEVER. I have a keeper! Janet Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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