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Celebrate your NSVI I am celebrating with you and God is watching over you. Now, take some time out from somewhere, and go have some fun and get some jeans that fit! LOL

Good morning my beautiful family , I hope you all have a relaxing, spirit filled day. Take some time to talk with the Lord, he's listening! Spiritual Vitamins: Proverbs 16:9 "In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps!" Vitamin S: Surrender When we first begin our journey we're excited! We decide the amount of weight we will lose, how long we think it shoulde take us to reach our goals by day, week, and month. We lose wonderfully at first, (hooray) and then we stall. OMG!!! Now what do we do? Do we panic? Stress out? Are we failures? No, we are human!! What we must realize is that we belong to God and he, in his infinite wisdom, will help us get to our goals if we would "surrender" our plans to him. " God intervenes without controlling, and cares without hurting." Be still in your spirit, do not be anxious for anything and watch God move!

Hip Hip Hooray!!! :D That's your motivation to kep going.

Good Morning Family, I hope your "yesterday" was good, so that your "today" can be even better! Spiritaul Food: Psalms 118:24 "This is the day that the Lord has made, let us rejoice and be glad in it!" As we begin another day on our journey to our healthier selves, remember that God knows each and everyone of us by name and knows what we struggle with daily. And with this, you can go through your day knowing that it was "designed" especially for you by our Creator and what ever comes with your day has purpose, so be appreciative for the ups and downs, embrace them and "be glad that God cares for you!" :)

Food for thought for those who are struggling today with any phase of this journey: Ecclesiastes 7:14 says. "The end of a matter is better than its beginning and patience is better than pride!" So wherever you may be in your journey today be patience and just remember if you keep working hard and doing what your doctor said, then each time to you move to a new phase and get closer to your goal, you will see that God's word will not come back void and "your end will definitely be better than your beginning!" Much Spiritual Love

Look at it this way, you can never have a bad hair day with a "Diva Wig" on standby!

I was freaking out about this hair thing because I have been reading all these comments about handfuls of hair falling out starting around 3-4 months post-op and I am a person of color and I do have a head full of thick shoulder length hair. After reading all the blogs on the internet about this topic, I was really considering cancelling my surgery (March 15, 2012) because I take pride in taking excellent care of my hair which we all know is an extention of who we are. But then I started thinking, "hey it's only hair, do what you can to minimze the hair loss, it will grow back, or just cut it short now, and by some Diva wigs and by the time it grows back, you will be a healtier, slimmer you"! So I am going on full steam ahead! Just think about it, we've had this struggle with our weight for so long and now with this tool and and our own efforts, we now have a chance to be FREE of this obesity monster, so if it means we lose some hair on our heads to gain a healthier body for life, then I say it's worth it! So I'm going to continue to trust in the Lord with all my heart, take great care of my hair, take my vitamins, biotin ect. and if the hair falls out, I'm getting me a fabulous Diva Wig Collection to have on standby and if I will "Rock The Wig!" :D :D

I'm excited about this! It makes keeping in touch with my neww family alot easier if I am out and just need to share or get info.

That is so adorable. Keep that sense of humor and positive thinking

Glad to here that your trust is in the Lord, continue to hold on to your faith and you will heal and be on your way to a healthier, better you!

Glad to here that your trust is in the Lord, continue to hold on to your faith and you will heal and be on your way to a healthier, better you!

I am scheduled to have my surgery on March 16, 2012 and my husband will be with me all day for three days after surgery, but then he has to return to work, so I will be by myself from about 4am til 4pm the days after. Will I be able to take care of myself. I have had major surgeries before, but I did have some help. Also, how bad is the pain level the first week post-op?

I am also going in for my surgery on March 15 and I would love to have a pre-op buddy to correspond with through this journey. I live in Texas. There is always "great strength" in numbers !

Appreciate you all for the advice. I to have a high tolerance for pain, just a little nervous about the procedure, but I so need help with this struggle. I can use all the words of encouragement that my new VSG family can throw at me to keep me pumped for my day :D .

Thanks guys! I do have a high tolerance for pain, I just wasn't sure about the moving around. I'm just a tab bit nervous about surgery day, so I can use all the encouragement you guys can throw at me :D.