http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-ohuiginn/i-am-happier-heavier_b_4413458.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Interesting perspective. My only observation is that I am not as anxious over gaining my weight back or about reaching goal, the LB has created a new "normal" for me.

i am happier that i am (healthier)

I am very happy that I am now off of my diabetic meds, high blood pressure and cholesterol too.. I am happy that I can wear normal clothes and shop with my girls without pooping out.. Happy that I can ride my horses and enjoy going out to dinner without panic setting in... I had the best Thanksgiving and Christmas I have had in many years.. did not worry or stress about how much weight I would gain and pretty much ate what I wanted .. Hope everyone is ready for another great year.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-ohuiginn/i-am-happier-heavier_b_4413458.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Interesting perspective. My only observation is that I am not as anxious over gaining my weight back or about reaching goal, the LB has created a new "normal" for me.

Same here I have developed a new normal thanks to my band but as I get closer to goal I do worry about history repeating itself with my gaining the weight back. Although my band does not allow me to over eat like used when I was pre-op I do still think about it.

I don't worry about gaining weight back, I worry if I will ever lose the 40-50 more that i would like. My doctor is thrilled with where I am now. I know the band will not let me get overweight again.

Not having to take so many prescriptions a day, DONE! with that part of my life is worth it.

Happiness is something that your size does not dictate. I have been big I have been small I have been bigger and smaller still.

When I was young and at my thinnest I wasn't happy. Not with myself, my body or my life. I was a bit lost about what happiness was and what it meant to me. So I took some time in my life to figure it out and find out what it meant for ME to be happy.

As I got older and older still. I got heavier, and thinner and then heavier again. None of those sizes made me any happier then the size I was or was going to be. None of those things dictated what I would enjoy and what I would not enjoy.

Happiness is a subjective thing. Some of us go on a 12 hour flight and find that the seat is too tight, and we need a seat belt extender and we are miserable the entire time. I just ask for the extender right up front buckle up hunker down and get ready to deplane in Hawaii! I don't make the flight miserable. I don't think Oh I am so fat that going to the bathroom is going to be a feat. If I have to go I graciously say pardon me to the person next to me. Nature calls and I shuffle the side step to the lavatory and take care of business. SURE all those things are a little more pleasurable when you don't need to squeeze your frame into places that were not created to accommodate such a frame, but i never let it bring me down or rob me of my happiness.

Today I am happy. I was happy the day I got married at my heaviest weight ever! That was one of the happiest days of my life and I never weighed more then I did then, and today I am just as happy with my life and myself. I have chosen to have lapband surgery to make the quality of my life that much better. To be healthy as well as happy, and I can report that things are right on schedule in that department!

If your not happy today, give yourself some love and ask yourself why your not happy? What does true happiness mean to you?

"Yes".

Measured in a variety of ways:

1) no longer being the biggest person in the room;

2) no longer being invisible to sales clerks;

3) no longer limited to shopping only at "Large and Fat Guy Store";

4) no longer having my knees/ankle/eyeballs explode if I have to tie my shoe;

There's a huge number of daily activities that I just couldn't do when I was 373/345/325 etc.

Just 'feeling good' now really is plenty to keep me happier than in my preOp days.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rachel-ohuiginn/i-am-happier-heavier_b_4413458.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000009

Interesting perspective. My only observation is that I am not as anxious over gaining my weight back or about reaching goal, the LB has created a new "normal" for me.

I think being 'thinner' gives you a better self esteem and that in itself will make you happy. When you feel good about yourself and have a positive outlook on life that bring happiness....however -- being thin or having a lot of money does not automatically makes someone happy.....happiness comes from within regardless if we are obese or broke....

But being thin and having money surely helps put a smile on ones' face

Edited January 6, 201412 yr by NaNa

The fact she did not allow herself to be photographed full body makes me doubt her "I'm totally happy with my weight" statement. Fat-acceptance subscribers are usually women still in their youthful years who have not yet felt the perfect storm of what obesity can do, and are not yet showing the markers of carrying all that extra weight: high blood pressure, high cholesterol, bad knees and ankles, aching back, PCOS, etc. It's easy to say "I love being fat" when your weight has not yet showed you what it can do to you.

I can't blame them for stopping the diet/binge cycle. Traditional dieting is doomed to failure, except in rare instances, and it is a dreary and depressing task to always be battling hunger and deprivation.

Thankfully I chose the lapband to help me do what I couldn't do by myself.

Am I happier at a lower weight today than I was last year at this time?

HELL YES. No question about it.

Happier, more mobile, certifiably healthier, wearing clothes I only dreamed I could wear a year ago, seeking ways to incorporate movement into each day, brave, fierce, self-confident and just all around in a good mood all the time.

I would not change places with that writer for a million bucks.

I always been a happy person. When people ask me if I am happy about my weight loss I tell them it all about me being more healthier now.

I've always been a happy person, but the band has given me even more confidence and I look and feel so much better that I can say "yes" I am happier now that I am thinner. Without a doubt.

More I read that article the more it sounds to me like she is trying to convince herself that she is happy.

Yes I am happier than ever!

I read the article. She's full of it. She's not happy being fat, no one is - if they are honest with themselves.

Hell yeah!!!

I understand where she is coming from; however, I love myself smaller. I'm greatful I don't have the doctor bills plus medication that comes along with being morbidly obese. I'm no longer "at risk".