SheVsMe

Congratulations!!! I'm doing a happy dance for you!!!

My mom just had her surgery on the 9th, she was able to start puree foods today.

I was expecting to have a psych eval but I don't have to. I tried to get the surgery done a couple yrs ago in Florida, the process is so much different where I live now (Michigan). My PCP didn't want me to have the surgery so she wouldn't sign off on it. I called the surgeon's office and told them I was having trouble getting my doc to approve it, the insurance specialist just told me to have them fax her my patient records. The next day I was approved. Wish I would have known that earlier, I could have been had the surgery.

I just read on the Unjury website that if the liquid is too hot, it does change the texture of the protein. The liquid you use has to be lukewarm.

Good luck!!!!!

I briefly dated a guy last month that was EXTREMELY handsome. He tried to be modest about his looks, but modesty was not one of his strong points. Anyway, I told him about the weight loss journey that I was about to embark and he made the stupidest comment to me. "Wow, when you lose all that weight, you're going to have to swat the guys off!" Now I know that many people would take this as a compliment, but not me! I've been every size between 8 & 20, and not once has my confidence or beauty waned! My beauty comes from within and spills over into my outside appearance. I've never had a problem with attracting "males"! Never a shortage! But as we could see with "Mr. EXTREMELY handsome", I am not always attracting "MEN". Big difference! I would forego attracting males for the rest of my life, just to have the right MAN be attracted to me! Anyhoo, my comment back to him? "Just like you approached me and asked for my number, another guy is going to do it again within the next 20 minutes! This is 300 lbs of "pure" chocolaty goodness! Who I am now, is who I will be later...Just in a better wrapper!" lol... I know I've just rambled on, but what I want to get across is that you have to love yourself no matter what size you are! No man, woman or child is going to take away the love that I have for myself! I've been single for a year and a half now, and this has been the best time of my life because I'm not pouring my all into another individual. I'm working on my physical, mental, and spiritual well-being. Until you love yourself, how can you truly love or be loved?

Congratulations!!!! It's exciting! The wait is killing me. A little over 2 weeks for me, and I'm probably losing weight from being so nervous!

Thank you ladies! I was married at the age of 19 and divorced at 28. I am now 33. He was someone that I put my "all" into and had gotten nothing in return. I lost myself in him, gained way over 100 lbs, developed panic disorder from his jealousy, and lost many friendships. For years we'd tried to have children and couldn't because my weight made me infertile. One day he just stopped coming home. He called me and told me he'd been cheating. After a week of why me's and swollen, water-tapped dry eye's, I decided to tell him we could work it out. He told me she was pregnant. After a brief "Waiting to Exhale" moment, I lost what was left of me for over 2 years. My mother was afraid for my safety. One day, I just decided it was enough. People don't recognize me today because I am a far cry from the person I was. I am now an extremely extroverted DIVA!!! I am no longer allowing anyone to take what is meant for me. My self-esteem, self-worth, is meant for MY-SELF and no one else! Last year, my ex-husband came by my house and after small talk, asked if we could date. I looked at him with the most sexiest smile I could muster and replied "I would LOVE to!". A second or two when I noticed he was extremely excited, I said, "Oh, you meant date each other....That's not gonna happen!" LOL. Petty, yes! But I LOVED EVERY MINUTE OF IT! In that small moment, I conquered a demon. (6'2, 230, light-skinned, if you see him...RUN GIRL!!!) I've been in a relationship since then, it didn't work. The person who've I've "graduated" into takes the time to smell the roses, and the B.S. that someone fertilizes them with. I am sooo single by choice! The one person who I haven't come up with the right thing to say to is my father. When that situation was going on with my marriage, he told me it happened because I'd gotten fat, and I needed to lose the weight and rub it in his face.....WHaaaaaat!?!?! Really dad? Oh, and an update on the ex, they are now married with 3 children. He has a total of 5 and she has a total of 4. I heard from his family that they were having problems for a minute there because she'd left him for her first child's father.....Hey,that's what he get's for shopping at K-mart....

Walmart has the body fortress super protein shots. They taste kinda gross to me, but it's a little under 3 oz. and has 26 grams of protein. You can get a 6-pk online for $9.97.

Hawaiian Punch has the sugar free singles that you add to water. It comes in about 6 different flavors too!

It's been extremely hot! I had to stop wearing baby powder under my stomach and my breasts because I still sweat so much and the powder doesn't help. By the time I usually make it home, I have Johnson & Johnson brand powder bricks falling to the floor when I take my clothes off! That's one thing I won't miss!

So how about a year ago I was working with a personal trainer for the first time. The guy had me jumping up and down on stair steppers. Now, setting aside the fear of me jumping on the plastic step, it shattering, and my big behind falling straight to hell....... My stomach was hitting my thighs. Sounded like my body was clapping for me! LOL It was horrible. Needless to say, I've never been back!

I can't wait until I don't have to wear all this "hardware"(girdles) just to look 10 lbs lighter..lol. Or the day when I get up out of a chair and there is a butt and thigh line from me sweating it up. It's funny, guys tell me that I have a sexy walk, but it's actually me wobbling from side to side trying to distribute my weight...lol.

My mother & I are having rny surgery. Her surgery is July 16th and mine is August 6th.

Yay!!!!! Just got a call from the Dr.'s office...My insurance approved the procedure! Now waiting for the office to call with my surgery date!!!

Thanks all!!!

Yay!!!!! Just got a call from the Dr.'s office...My insurance approved the procedure! Now waiting for the office to call with my surgery date!!!