new to group

November 8, 2003

Hi Everyone,

My name is and I'm new to this group. I live in northern Alabama. I

had my surgery Oct. 20, 2002 and when I had my year check up my doctor was not

pleased with my progress. I had only lost 77lbs in a year. Imagine the

defeated feeling I had. He told me that my window of opportunity was quickly

closing

and I basically had only 6months left.

I'm sure he was using this scare tactic to get me moving and to wake me up

but I will honestly tell you it almost defeated me completely. I thought to

myself " gosh, I'm even a failure in this WLS. " Needless to say though, it did

wake

me up to become more concious of what I was doing.

Alittle back ground here: This past year has NOT been the best for me. I was

going through a divorce after 20yrs of marriage. My weight had gone up to 342.

I only had a certain period of time to have the surgery done on the insurance

because I wasn't sure of my benefits after the divorce. My divorce became

final in June and well I sort of hit bottom. Went on a " pity " vacation and well

I

didn't pay much attention to me and my health. I found, as silly as it

sounds, but bananas and lo-carb bread with peanut butter became my buddy. Yes, I

have all the excuses of why I failed but the real truth is I just didn't care.

Gosh, that was hard to admit.

Well since that check up I have dove into this thing. I have recommitted

myself to " succeed " in this journey if it kills me, nah, not really kill me, but

I

want to succeed at it. So for the past two weeks I've gotten back on <A

www.obesityhelp.com</A> (my profile is H. in Alabama) and updated my

profile. Then

I've started to arm myself with more information about what I need to do to

get back on track. I've begun to join more information loops like this one and

have made my plea for any and all help and information that I can use to help

me win this battle. I've stopped eating bananas, even though they are in my

kitchen, no bread or peanut butter. I'm getting more information on the kinds

of protein shakes I need to take to get my protein in.

I've joined this group to learn your wisdom and hear your successes. I look

forward to learning more about you all.

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