BrantS1976

While divorce can be hard on kids, watching their parents in an unhealthy relationship can actually be more damaging. While i admire your desire to stick to your values and try to work it out, it sounds like it may be time to move on. As others have posted life is too short to be unhappy, and it is hard to be the best parent you can to your kids when you are unhappy.

For me it was the birth of my son and realizing I needed to do something for my health if I was already 36 when having him and want to be around long enough to see him grow up and have a family of his own. It took me a year to finally go ahead with surgery, but not long after I made the decision, my father had a stroke, which helped reinforce my decision, as my father is not obese, but there are other health issues in our family as well. Might as well address the ones I can in hopes that it helps avoid the others.

For once my New Year's resolutions don't just consist of weight loss related items. Nice to know I am already on the right track with that and can focus on other areas I would like to improve.

Looking good Kristina, keep up the good work. The more successful you are losing the pre-op weight the easier the recovery and the adjustment to your new diet. After doing the pre-op diet, following the post-op diet once I could eat solid food again was pretty easy. I still crave certain things I shouldn't eat sometimes, but it is fairly easy to walk away from it as I am seeing good results.