Does anyone else feel like me? That going through the pain/trouble/hassle of WLS was a necessary right of passage for personal growth and taking charger of your life?

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The changes made to get my life back was the best part of my weight loss surgery. Rediscovering who I am and what I wanted out of life has been such a joy.

Put it this way...I want to be healthier...and I want to feel good EVERYDAY. I also have future career plans that being overweight would work so much against me ( as we all know the stereotype you get as an obese person in the workplace). So yes..a right of passage. Spot on!

Well said, I didn't think of that before surgery but it has become glaringly apparent after surgery. I am learning so many thing I was blind to before in my food induced haze. I am glad to finally be on this journey and getting healthier every day. Good luck to you all in your own personal journeys!

Rite of passage.

Rite.

DOH! So that's why I had such a hard time googling an image to put in my post! :-P

Rite of passage.

Rite.

I didn't know it was spelled that way either. I didn't even know rite was a word. Now I'm excited for the next time I play scrabble!

And yes, I think with my food demons, surgery was the necessary step for me to be able to start getting over them. Food is the vice used for deeper demons and I'm able to see them and deal with them now that I can't "eat" them, so I needed this to help me become healthier mentally and emotionally as well. What's really nice, and I'm trying to make sure my kids understand (and my husband always knew) is that I'm the same person and who you really are cannot be weighed on a physical scale. I wish I hadn't spent so much time ashamed.