geekmom

Well, I can tell you that I am certainly sick of this winter crap. It is close to 40 degrees today in Michigan. It's sad when being in the upper 30s feels like a heat wave.

I totally agree! And with the sun shinning it makes it even worse because you know its going to snow again before we are done. Mother Nature is playing a mean trick on us in Michigan!

Well, I can tell you that I am certainly sick of this winter crap. It is close to 40 degrees today in Michigan. It's sad when being in the upper 30s feels like a heat wave.

Well, I for one am so psyched for you Kiara and I pray that everything goes well! It has got to be tough going through this knowing that some of the people you have told are not being supportive!
(((HUGS))))
I really hate the stigma that is attached to weight loss surgery, How someone loses weight is all relative and each method comes with risks and advantages.

Thats what was upsetting me the whole time! Either ppl think there is too much involved with it..the pre op-diet and the psych evaluation etc... but they dont realized that those things, the new lifestyle we are willing to have requires discipline and dedication! Its not an easy thing to go through! The possibility of being sick for foods we eat, having a staple leak and even a possible wls failure are all a risk we feel is a better option than to just be overweight and unhealthy and knocking on deaths door! Other who dont understand the slightest thing about wls or what its like to be the biggest person in the family or in a group of friends shouldnt have anything to say about our decision until they have lived a day in our shoes. Like I said before I told my family because I thought they would honestly be ok and maybe even a little happy for me that I might finally have the tool I need to help me dip the weight for good but in the end I cant care if they dont.

I am also on a path right now where I really want this surgery. I've told a couple of people my thoughts but no one has really been outright supportive.
It seems like a lot of people look at it like we're cheating or something. Yet most of them have never known the pain or struggle of being obese.
I believe that we will all strive to work every day toward our goal after surgery and every day once we get to goal to maintain it.
I get why people who have wls tell very few people. Especially if they know those people are going to judge and are not going to be supportive.

It is amazing how poorly people count.
They can't seem to count to one, that's the number of lives each of us have.
No one yet has lived for two people.
The brain in each head is supposed to control what it's body does.
We are sovereign territory which only we have the deed to.
The truth is you have to fight for your right to own your own life. Power hungry life hackers seek to have points of control in as many heads as their coercion skill allows. It is up to us to keep possession of that which is ours.
It is our life, our body, our right to our own thinking and life direction. If running my own life comes at the expense of losing the companionship of those who wish to direct my destiny by whipping me with insult and slander, it is a price that I am happily prepared to pay.