BarbaraSue

Hi - I am wandering about trying to figure out this sight. My surgery is scheduled for June 15th, so I am right behind you. I am trying to add protein shakes instead of full meals now - to a) loose the required weight before surgery and :thumbup: to get ready for the reality of the surgery. I weight 282 so we are close in the process and the goal. Frankly, I am not sure how ever to get back to you but perhaps I'll learn. I sincerely really truly wish you well. I look at so many success stories and say - I can, I know I can I must. My personal email is bsayble@gmail.com - So far, I know of no other way to maintain strands of connections. Have you had surgery or just doing the prep? Here we go - I wonder what a year from now will look like? Barbara

To one and all... My surgery date is June 15th and I am so glad to have found this forum. One prepares for change and hopes for change but.... in my head right now is the urge for a large hamburger with fries. I hope I can write this and drink my Protein shake instead. Driving past the drivethrus is my greatest challenge. It is where the weight has come from. Perhaps - as I loose - I should deliver hunks of fat to their doors?? Kind of give it back. At 62 I do not want to die young and do not want to die fat. I want to live healthy and enjoy my young children (21 & 27). I want to work (school psychologist) and maybe even date again (widowed, divorced). Can I give up the satisfaction that food supplies? Can I really stop killing myself? The idea of communicating with others is so sound and hopeful. My sister had the bypass 18months ago, but lives in California - while I reside here in Minnesota. She advised telling no one - she didn't even tell me for 6 months and then I saw her!!! If my baby sister can do this I can, if all of you can do this I can. Yes I can - said the little train. Right now, I feel like falling off the tracks and stopping the whole trip. Fear - not of surgery but of failing - maybe even fear of succeeding? Ah well, one step and then another.:redface: