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Sparklette

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  1. I had my last cigarette yesterday. I am trying to quit cold turkey, any pointers?
  2. I am right there with you. I have to have 6 months of talk therapy before I can be re evaluated I am 4 months in and I feel like time is moving at a snails pace most days. I have just been taking it day by day and eventually we will get there right?
  3. Ashrothrock@gmail.com I am still preop but I think this is a wonderful idea.
  4. I told my boss that I would eventually take a leave for the surgery almost as soon as i started the process. I felt that I should let her know first at work so when it gets to the grape vine she won't be blind sided.
  5. I don't remember what it was called . It was on discovery health at like two in the morning lol. I was thinking about everything while I was pondering what to get everyone and it all hit and I cried like a baby. Idk I get super emotional when I think about how much everything will change. Both in a good way and a bad way. I worry about how I will change and how people will see me. I worry about missing out being able to drink on my 21st birthday and losing friends after the subconscious social structure is disrupted. But on the other hand I sorry about not having kids or dying I'm the next 10 years. Even though I have these worries the surgery is everything I want and need wrapped up in one. I want this more than anything , I am scared about something going wrong or failing
  6. Last holiday season before my surgery. I realized this last night this will be the last holiday that I will eat a lot of turkey and pass out on the couch while my family yells over football. I realized that I may never eat my mothers famous sheet cake again. I realized this will be the Last year I will tell my family the wrong size of clothing while they shop. This is the last new years I will have a weight loss goal. I am nervous and excited and a little sad about the upcoming holiday season. Then January I will prepare for my surgery. Jan 16 is when my psych will give the okay to be re evaluated. Two and a half months. It feels like it is crawling some days other days it feels like it is zooming by. I watched a documentary on rny the other day and freaked my self out. There is a huge deference from seeing the models and seeing the thing live.
  7. Once I hit my goal I am getting a phonix tattoo.
  8. I have dr stinus here in college station, (an hour north of Houston. He is a really nice guy. I highly recommend him.
  9. My boyfriend left me a month after I started the process for wls, he is a heavy guy, and I think he felt as though the balance we had would be threatened after I was more attractive. So he ended it before I could end it. I dunno he was kinda a dick about it. but it is a sacrifice that is necessary for me to be able to live a healthy life.
  10. I am getting frustrated waiting! I am required to take 6 months of therapy and I am two months in. I really can't wait! I don't want to wait anymore, I want this phase of my life over!! I want to start on my physical transformation! My therapist says that my mental health has improved tenfold since I started seeing her. And that's great, I feel great mentally I am a strong independent young woman, and I see now how beautiful my personality is. I just want the outside to match, and I don't want to wait for it anymore!!! It Is frustrating how the thing that I want most is so close but it feels a million miles away sometimes. I have my job and school to fill the time but the times I am not in school or at work or therapy are excruciatingly long, all I can think about is the surgery, all I can think about is how much longer I have. No one seems to understand why I am being so melodramatic about 4 months, but they must have never wanted something as much as I want this. This surgery will mark the halfway point of my transformation from who I am to someone I will be, they don't understand d that this surgery is my future and it is all I have ever wanted wrapped up in a box. Sorry for the rant. It is just one of those nights.
  11. This is going to be the longest six months of my life! I was required by my doc to have 6 months of therapy before surgery. And I am being whiny and impatient! I can't wait to change my life, I can't wait for February! Just a micro rant. :-)
  12. Go you! I am at 450ish i can't have surgery until February, I haven't seen that many people with the larger starting weight, I am glad to see your success, it gives me hope.
  13. Most plastics will give you payment options. I have looked in to it. Usually it is 25% down then the rest in payments.
  14. Foodporn.com it's an amazingly real site.
  15. If he is verbally abusing you and your kids you need to get Them out. You can get help at a womens shelter and they have advisers there that can help you get on your feet. I know your money Situation isn't ideal but every day your kids are near the hostile environment there is damage being done.
  16. I'm starting the required 6 months of counseling on Wednesday. which is putting my completion somewhere in February. So We're thinking that the surgery itself will be right around spring break. I'm going to back to school in the fall. I've taken a year long sabbatical and I'm thrilled to be going back. I had dropped out after my first year, due to stress and social stupidity. I broke up with my boyfriend of over two years last week. It hasn't been as hard as I thought it would have been, I'm honestly surprised that I haven't been as upset as I had been. He had never really been there for me in the way that I needed him. He wasn't meeting any of my needs, and he was selfish and immature. He wasn't 100% on board with the surgery, I'm starting to think that he didn't really care. I was there through every single thing, I was always there to build up his ego, just for him to stop all over mine. I look back on the last two years, and I get so mad at myself for putting up with all of it. I forgave him way too many times. He stole the rent money once, he cheated on me, he was rude and uncaring, he never stood up for me, Hell, I spent 6 months sleeping on the floor because we only had a twin size bed that my fat ass and his wouldn't fit on, He drove away the few friends that I had and I kept forgiving him. And It pisses me off that I didn't leave him, that I just sat there an let him do whatever he wanted without any repercussions. I think it is the surgery that finally let me leave. I really do. I've always been insecure, and I guess I was trapped in the thought that no one else would ever love me because I was fat and ugly. But now with this life changing surgery looming at he horizon, I just feel hopeful that with this surgery, and therapy that I will finally be able to love myself, enough to not worry about being locked in to another unhealthy relationship because I'm too afraid, to be alone. I'm so ready to get the ball rolling on my new life. 6 months, only six more months.
  17. The scary stuff is part of being informed about what you are about to do. The truth is, sometimes things can go wrong with the surgery, and It's good to know both the pros and cons of this procedure.
  18. I has one session, it included a true false test, then an hour talk. I didn't pass and have to take 6 months of councling.
  19. My boyfriend, or well ex boyfriend did the same thing, we broke up on Friday after a long fight about him being immature and irresponsible and not being there for me and not being supportive. Men suck!
  20. I had a 165 true false test, it took about 30 minutes.
  21. I know what you mean about even numbers, my boyfriend wants three. . . And my OCD is like NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
  22. I love my tongue piercing, I got it on my 18th birthday. Every time I take it out It just feels wrong.
  23. They have me on 8 weeks of 10,000 units a day, then down to 5,000 for the rest of my life. Vitamin D is extracted from the blood by fat cells, altering its release into the circulation. People with a BMI of 30 or greater often have low blood levels of vitamin D.

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