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Well I have to tell y'all about I feel like a 16 year old who's been out on her first date I've been divorced about 6 years and was married 10 years . Well about a week ago I saw a friend of mine and a couple of days later he called me and said that his friend that was with him wanted to take me out and he told him I would go with out asking me I said are you crazy he said no I need to get out so I agreed but tried to get him and his girlfriend to double with us he said no she had to work ok we go to dinner ( I was just hoping I didn't get sick Red Lobster so fish is ok for my tummy) and then he asked if I wanted to go to the Laser Show and Fireworks at Stone Mountian well we had a very nice night so he's called me everyday since and sends me sweet little tex so we had our second date tonight and it was great this is such a strange feeling hadn't been on a date for about 17 years. He just wants to do everything for me open doors hold my hand to get up and in and out of the car didn't now guys still really did those things for you. Just makes you feel good and special 5 months ago I probably wouldn't have gone .

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Well I have to tell y'all about I feel like a 16 year old who's been out on her first date I've been divorced about 6 years and was married 10 years . Well about a week ago I saw a friend of mine and a couple of days later he called me and said that his friend that was with him wanted to take me out and he told him I would go with out asking me I said are you crazy he said no I need to get out so I agreed but tried to get him and his girlfriend to double with us he said no she had to work ok we go to dinner ( I was just hoping I didn't get sick Red Lobster so fish is ok for my tummy) and then he asked if I wanted to go to the Laser Show and Fireworks at Stone Mountian well we had a very nice night so he's called me everyday since and sends me sweet little tex so we had our second date tonight and it was great this is such a strange feeling hadn't been on a date for about 17 years. He just wants to do everything for me open doors hold my hand to get up and in and out of the car didn't now guys still really did those things for you. Just makes you feel good and special 5 months ago I probably wouldn't have gone .

this is a sweet story. so happy for you.

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So today I am able to wear a pair of jeans I havent put on since 1999. Lets hear it for us hoarders! Down 65 since preop diet. Sorry I haven't updated the ticker in a while.

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I've reached a milestone! I now have less than 100 lbs to lose to reach a healthy BMI! Next milestone, the 1/2 mark! Feeling accomplished! :)

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Just bought vacation clothes and did not once venture into the big girl section, nothing I tried on was too small. Yay!

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Just bought vacation clothes and did not once venture into the big girl section, nothing I tried on was too small. Yay!

How did you get your ticker to show both BMI & weight?

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How did you get your ticker to show both BMI & weight?

I don't really know...i have the ticker marked for body weight and that's what shows up!

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As May got into full swing' date=' my exercise fizzled. With soccer, scouts, birthday boy, end of school year festivities we've been somewhere almost every night and weekend for 4 weeks. However! Scouts was over this past weekend (a few things this summer scattered here and there), soccer ended tonight until August, the birthday festivities have passed, and tomorrow is my sons last day of school. Tomorrow night is our first totally free night in weeks!!! So, I guess I'm going to back up and restart zombie 5K. I leave for vacation a week from Friday (Florida keys for a week!!!!!) and when I get bak I'll have to start getting serious again.

The awesome part here is that in the past, when life gets crazy and we're grabbing quick meals and not exercising (happens every October and May) I gain weight, this year I continued to slowly lose. I consider it success!!!!

HW 312, pre-op (RNY) 255, current weight 213.2[/quote']

Yah for you!! :)

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Well I have to tell y'all about I feel like a 16 year old who's been out on her first date I've been divorced about 6 years and was married 10 years . Well about a week ago I saw a friend of mine and a couple of days later he called me and said that his friend that was with him wanted to take me out and he told him I would go with out asking me I said are you crazy he said no I need to get out so I agreed but tried to get him and his girlfriend to double with us he said no she had to work ok we go to dinner ( I was just hoping I didn't get sick Red Lobster so fish is ok for my tummy) and then he asked if I wanted to go to the Laser Show and Fireworks at Stone Mountian well we had a very nice night so he's called me everyday since and sends me sweet little tex so we had our second date tonight and it was great this is such a strange feeling hadn't been on a date for about 17 years. He just wants to do everything for me open doors hold my hand to get up and in and out of the car didn't now guys still really did those things for you. Just makes you feel good and special 5 months ago I probably wouldn't have gone .

That's awesome :)

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I have to tell you it's so strange to date at 57 years old things are so different my grand kids 12 & 13 are really trying to tell me what to and not to do and my daughter had a friend of ours call me to make sure I was ting dating my ex I asked her if she was crazy he created on me why would I want that again I said if I dated I wanted someone new and would except me for me and not want to change me So on my date I told him about my surgery cause we had went to dinner and I figured if he didn't except me and all I'm going thru cause of all the ups & downs he was great said that it was good to get healthy and liked me as i was or where i wanted to get to be in good health of course he doesn't have a weight problem but is health caution and wants to be healthy.

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I have to tell you it's so strange to date at 57 years old things are so different my grand kids 12 & 13 are really trying to tell me what to and not to do and my daughter had a friend of ours call me to make sure I was ting dating my ex I asked her if she was crazy he created on me why would I want that again I said if I dated I wanted someone new and would except me for me and not want to change me So on my date I told him about my surgery cause we had went to dinner and I figured if he didn't except me and all I'm going thru cause of all the ups & downs he was great said that it was good to get healthy and liked me as i was or where i wanted to get to be in good health of course he doesn't have a weight problem but is health caution and wants to be healthy.

Well I hope it works out for u.. Sounds like he's off to a good start!!!

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I wanted to share NY progress since 2/19/13 when my life changed forever. I finally see a change in me.

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Thank u. I had the gastric bypass

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

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