highdesertblue

I am so sorry you had to deal with that. I had a bad experience last year. Normally, the flight attendant very discretely hands me a seat belt extender, and that is the end of it. I generally fly about once a year, and I have weighed the same, plus or minus ten pounds for a long time. (Haven't had the surgery yet) The woman at the Southwest gate came charging down the ramp into the plane. I was in the process of putting on my seat belt, and she kneeled on the seat in front of me, facing my husband and I. She said that I couldn't fit in the seat with the arm rest down. i said I could, wait and look. She said in a nasty voice, "Not comfortably!" I had just flown a week before on two planes with Southwest. My husband was sitting right next to me, so there wouldn't have been another customer complaining. She told me she had to put a seat between me and the other passenger, had a printed "reserved" ticket that I had to place between us, and told me that I was now in the computer as a passenger who requires two seats. She was not discreet. How humiliating! I am flying to Chicago next week on American. I hope there isn't another incident. I've never had that problem before. I was traveling with my husband who had a stroke six month earlier, and has stage four cancer, so I didn't get her badge number.

Wow! You are beautiful in both! I attend my initial seminar tonight! Your pictures give me hope, especially since I am close to your starting weight. Thanks so much for sharing! Kristy

I attend the first seminar in two days, and I am terrified of failing before I've even started! I've failed before on every diet, lifestyle change, or whatever we call it. I tried to get the surgery approved several times over the past few years, but ran into insurance issues. Now I have Medicare with an Advantage plan, and the first obstacle is overcome before I even start the process! I am excited, but terrified that I will fail, too! I have a very specific goal in mind this time. i can't have spinal repair surgery until I lose 100 pounds. I had to quit a job I loved and go on disability in my early fifties, and now at 57, I can only walk a very short distance. I had to get a manual wheelchair, and my independence is disappearing day by day. YOU can stick with this if you understand how many great, amazing, wonderful years you have ahead of you with good health! I hope all the beautiful advice that the others posted above will get you past the fear! Praying that you have a great success!

My husband and I both got referred to a kidney specialist because of blood tests that were a little "off." The doctor spent the entire visits telling us about how wonderful it is to cook in a crockpot, and how it is the best way to lose weight. Same conversation at every visit. We stopped seeing her. A few months later, my husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer by another doctor. Maybe if she hadn't been so obsessed with crockpot cooking...