After 4 months on maintenance, I'm actually starting to believe that I may have a normal weight for the rest of my life.

I have 4 friends who all lost a lot of weight - 40 to 90 pounds in the last 2 years without WLS and I'm seeing all of them put it all back on.

I think to myself "how sad and thank God that I discovered the WLS Journey"...

Boy, do I hear you!

Well said !!!!

And brave. My friends it takes a lot of courage to make the changes I see you all making.

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Honey, you need to include yourself in that statement too. You are also a brave weightloss warrior!

And brave. My friends it takes a lot of courage to make the changes I see you all making.


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I so want to believe this! I'm still in the losing process though. I do have that fear that the weight will creep back on.

And brave. My friends it takes a lot of courage to make the changes I see you all making.

@@Christinamo7 ... I was just thinking that in the last 24 hours!

The hugely brave thing we each did was to choose WLS. At 21 months post-op I have almost forgotten the terrors and weirdness I felt when I finally made that decision.

One of the bravest things we can do is to approach a very difficult, hugely important problem from a brand new perspective, throwing away all historically acceptable, common-wisdom approaches that have not solved the problem. It's easy for us blame our prior failures on poor execution of the weight loss emperor's rules. Yet somehow we all found the courage to say that the emperor was naked.

I'm still giving Einstein credit for this brilliant aphorism: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results."