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It's Okay to Acknowledge change

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shonette

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This weight lost journey is very new to me. I have failed miserably for years trying to lose weight. Therefore, it's not easy for me to accept the positive comments people are saying to me about the weight I have lost. I still look into the mirror, and I see a little difference. I still think to myself "it's not all that much of a difference"! The scale is really not moving fast, but I think it's mostly inches that are coming off. I do admit my clothes are very loose and a couple of things I can't even wear any more. I do know that is a good thing, but it is still very hard to see that thinner me. I look into the mirror and I still see all those fat rolls, humps, and fat in areas I don't want it to be in. I don't want to get the "big head” as some people often say to me, but I am proud of the changes I have made. At times I want his weight to come off over night, but I know that isn't going to happen and it would be healthy if it did. When a person has spent so much of their life being over weight, you just want to experience a different side of life. This whole process is more mental than I ever anticipated it to be. I realize that food has different meaning to me for different reasons. It is a comforter, it gives me pleasure, it occupy me when I am bored, and most of all it can't tell me no. For all those reasons food has to be redefined with a different purpose and need in my life. I am a work in progress!

This site is so wonderful to have in my life. Thanks to all those wonderful and inspiring people that let me know I can do this.

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Nicely said.

Food has never failed me. It's always there when I want it. It feels me up when I have felt empty.

Finding it's replacement is my daily journey.

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I love your blog, sounds so much like me. I hope to have my surgery in the next few weeks, I am just skepitcal, have also failed at so many things, scared this is going to work. It will be nice to follow your blogs to see how your progress goes.

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Hiya Shonette, I agree with fool..nicely said. I too have always been overweight and am just starting my journey so you are giving all of us newbies inspiration....so keep the blogs coming!! How much weight have you lost and how long have you been banded?

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Nice blog - thanks for sharing your thoughts. So many of us can relate to your feelings. Let's just keep plugging away at this, huh?

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I agree THANKS....I am a real newbie...1st appointment sept. 14....I want to do the lapband, but I am scared. My daughter keeps lecturing me about the life change it will be...sure does not make me feel I can succeed. I want to do this for me noone else, if you know what I mean.

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I think the best feeling that I have had is when I see people out and I have completely forgotten that I have lost 112 lbs and look completely different...well these people don't recognize me. They look at me and I talk to them..they get this weird look on their face like...I know this voice, she sounds familiar.. is that Michele?? did you lose weight? like a lot of weight?? Then I remember I haven't seen them in a while. I take this as the best compliment ever. Yes, I could let it go to my head but I don't! I can put on the sexiest outfits and get all glammed up..but only for my husband. But on an everyday all day basis..I am just me..just a lighter, healthier me! So that is my advice..just be who you are now and forever. You have to do things for yourself and no one else! Take good care of yourself!

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I really do appreciate all of the wonderful comments and encouragement from everyone. I do know it is very important to stay true to who you really are and don't try to measure yourself up with anyone else.

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