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Thanks guys! I think the "great accuser" loves to get us doubting anyway! We alone cannot be "good enough or believe enough" for HIM, We have to accept the works, death and resurrection of Christ...we can do nothing without him! Thanks again, Tracy

Hallelujah...it's a beautiful...day..just a bump in the road! Tracy w.

Yes, I use Miralax and the powder form of Fiber in my first drink bottle of Water everyday. I usually only need about half a dose of Miralax....havent had issues in a year now. If you get fissure and it won't heal...the best bet is a colorectal surgeon who can give you the salve before metioned which will help it heal....Tracy

I hear what you are saying and you are right in many ways...but one clarification....I said I COULD eat this at a setting to show capacity...not that I do this every meal or every day. Most meals on most days I do exactly what I'm supposed to down to liquid, exercise etc....I'm just saying I thought I wouldn't be able to and I thought I'd just be able to be like a normal person/eater but it appears like I will have to be more like a dieter to get futher. Hope that makes more sense! Thanks, Tracy

Hi all,
I have been heavy all my life...even in my kindergarten photos! I never saw too many people be successful on diets so I mainly just lived my life and got upto to 440lbs! Pretty happy with my life though...I have a wonderful but chubby husband (who is also doing the surgery after me) and two BEAUTIFUL daughters from China...the most exciting experiences of my life! Well, my deeply spiritual friend and I were having a discussion on my path to this surgery and she thinks I can do this on my own if I just believe and ask God for help. She is baseing this on the fact that I have lost 42lbs and my husband has lost 55lbs on Weight Watchers while we have done the 6 month supervised diet thing with our PCP. I have been a Christian for most of my life and have seen God do incredible things and protect me in the wildest ways!
I am not saying this surgery is the easy way out, I have been around this forum for a LONG time and see that it is not and I don't think she is saying that either. I just think she figures that God made our tummys the way they are and that he can restore our minds and hearts without cutting out a perfectly good part of our tummies. In a way, it makes me feel like "why can't I believe God" He has gotten me this far (I didn't think I could lose any weight on my own) or that it would be hell...well it hasn't! But my deal is I want to insure my success and move on....not spend the next however many years counting points! Am I impatient and not letting God work? I believed God brought this to me and have followed the plan to get here...my last PCP apt is June 2 and then my insurance will be submitted....so fellow believers...what do you think...I don't want to be a second rate Christian and God can do anything! Thoughts?????
Thanks for listening, Tracy W.

Surgery was July 21st...lost 45 pre-op and 56 since surgery....total 101lbs!!!!!

Hi, It was a year ago when I started my dr supervised weight watchers program for 6 months, then my surgery was July 21, 11. I started at 440lbs and today I weigh 330lbs. I just wanted to share my NSV's
1) I'm wearing jeans for the first time in 25 years!
2) I can walk everywhere with my kids!
3) I enjoyed shopping for the first time in a LONG time!
4) I wore my honey moon nightie for the first time in 7yrs!
5) I've decided to go back to school to change my career..big decision!
6) My hubby had surgery in Aug and wow the whoopie is sooo much better! TMI!
I am so happy I did this, I have so much further to go and I hope to loose another 100 this year and with the sleeve and faith and persistence I will get there.
Thanks for listening and this past years support! Tracy

Hi, It was a year ago when I started my dr supervised weight watchers program for 6 months, then my surgery was July 21, 11. I started at 440lbs and today I weigh 330lbs. I just wanted to share my NSV's
1) I'm wearing jeans for the first time in 25 years!
2) I can walk everywhere with my kids!
3) I enjoyed shopping for the first time in a LONG time!
4) I wore my honey moon nightie for the first time in 7yrs!
5) I've decided to go back to school to change my career..big decision!
6) My hubby had surgery in Aug and wow the whoopie is sooo much better! TMI!
I am so happy I did this, I have so much further to go and I hope to loose another 100 this year and with the sleeve and faith and persistence I will get there.
Thanks for listening and this past years support! Tracy

Hi, It was a year ago when I started my dr supervised weight watchers program for 6 months, then my surgery was July 21, 11. I started at 440lbs and today I weigh 330lbs. I just wanted to share my NSV's
1) I'm wearing jeans for the first time in 25 years!
2) I can walk everywhere with my kids!
3) I enjoyed shopping for the first time in a LONG time!
4) I wore my honey moon nightie for the first time in 7yrs!
5) I've decided to go back to school to change my career..big decision!
6) My hubby had surgery in Aug and wow the whoopie is sooo much better! TMI!
I am so happy I did this, I have so much further to go and I hope to loose another 100 this year and with the sleeve and faith and persistence I will get there.
Thanks for listening and this past years support! Tracy

Surgery was July 21st...lost 45 pre-op and 56 since surgery....total 101lbs!!!!!

Oh my gosh, I had the broth the second out of surgery! Then the next week I bought two bowls and pureed them over the course of the next several days...not a biggy! Tracy w. Down 89lbs since Jan