MissCheri

I love all you all said! fitting in seats and not having to panic inside as to IF you will fit... buying clothes because you LOVE them not grumbling about why they think big ladies don't like cute.... and being healthy my biggest goal of all... and then there is this...when my oldest daughter was a teen I asked her "do I look like a baby whale in this outfit?" and her reply was 'are you suppose to look like a baby whate in it" so I look forward to someday SOON asking my grand-daughter the same question and having her reply "oh grandma you're so silly you can't look like a whale"

I haven't had the surgery yet...still learning up and hitting meetings now to get the medical end, but one thing I can say that might help...I had a ruptured brain aneurysm a few years ago and I spent months in hospitals, didn’t even have much memory but when I woke up in the last hospital months down this road… I saw someone smoke outside I had no idea what it was and remember months have past so I had no drug habit left in me for them. But I knew I wanted one! So even when we cannot really think our old habits are hard to break… this journey with food bad vs good and all I’m expecting it to be long and not always easy but we can retain our heads so accept mistakes and plow forward. It seems to me that you are all doing great.

sounds like a great idea to have it done at the same time or close to it.... can eat the same and totally understand each other...I worry about this a bit with my room-mate which is my sister, she eats everything and anything so it might be hard on me to say no but my mind AND heart is set on this

About the knee pain, I have a lot of pain in my body from nerve damage and what I learned was to exercise in water! I go the to pool and walk and do all sorts of work out you can even get wts to train with in the water... no pain...love it!