Well here goes... 2 days of high school graduations and then Monday morning June 6 I am to be at the hospital at 6:30 a.m. !!!! I can't wait when I started this I really did not think much about it truthfully I believed it to be an easy way out. Well that was then and this is now. Two weeks of liquid diet will either make or break you and I found out I am a lot stronger than I ever dreamed I was. For the first time in my life food was not my answer for everything. Yes I have been hungry, yes when I cook dinner for my family it smells soooo good, and then to sit with them while they eat....but guess what...I do not eat! My 16 year old daughter teases me "hey mom how does that Protein shake taste" as she is putting food in her mouth (please don't think bad of her for this) I actually enjoy her humor, because in her humor I have found my strength. After her little comments I say absolutely wonderful and we all laugh ...and then she always responds with "You go mom you are going to be so HOT". God I love this child! I have also noticed with my new found strength it is rubbing off on my 12 year old niece you also lives with us and is already over weight (5 ft and 150 pounds) she is serving herself small portions, eating slower, using the stationary bike that has been a clothes hanger in my room for way too long

To make a long story short I have already started to like me again and I believe that will help me greatly for the rest of my life. I am doing this for my husband, for my children (ages 16 and 3) so that I may be there to laugh and play with them for years to come but most importantly I am doing this for me so that I may be healthy both physically and mentally, to be happy and to like me and to finally be the person on the outside that I still feel and think I am on the inside.

My oldest sister would have been 52 on March 5th of this year but she died August 21, 2009 just 2 days after my 40th birthday from a rare form of liver cancer diagnosed the end of May 09 and was gone in Aug. She stuggled her entier life with her weight at her highest being around 350 and I wish she could have found something like this.

This is only the 2nd or 3rd thing I have posted on here but I visit and read this site every night and would like to say to all of you ...THANK YOU...the support and encouragement you give one another is truly amazing and has made this decision for me very easy.

Good luck to all of us being banded this month! JUNE is a great month it is also my anniversary! 24 years way to go me

So look out world here I come...well after June 6 at 6:30 a.m. that is !

"So look out world here I come...well after June 6 at 6:30 a.m. that is ! "

Wow!!! I'm soo excited to learn of your successful journey, you already have such a beautiful story to tell! God Bless you!

Rebecca

Girlie, You have such a great attitude. I am sure that you will be a success story on here, too! Good luck on your Monday surgery. Keep us informed of your progress. Karen

Inspirational... best of luck to you!

Awesome! Congrats on taking controlof your life and putting you first! You will do great with your spirit! And you will be "One Hot Mama!" You go girl!!