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@@mishi Hi! It's nice to meet you! I just went directly to your profile and added you as a friend so now we should be good to go! I am so excited for you being 10 days out! I just got approved today for surgery and conveniently the patient coordinator at my surgeon's office is out today, so I will wait anxiously to talk to her tomorrow! LOL I hear you with the struggling all your life, me too. I would lose, and then regain. What really pushed me over the edge was getting pregnant. With my first son I put on 30 lbs, never lost it. Then got pregnant again, gained more, never lost it, and then got pregnant the final time and gained even more weight. Being overweight hurts. You can't work out like "normal sized" people can and you can't breathe right, it just sucks. So this is where I am at today! I want to be healthy for me and my family, my three boys especially. I want to be that cool mom who can roller skate or ride bikes or roller coasters with her kids without feeling embarrassed or have the fear of being humiliated or honked at or stared at or commented about. My friends tell me "who cares what other people think?" easy for you to say, you're not heavy. I used to not care until I had kids. Now they can get made fun of because of how I look and that kills me. Anyways, now that I have friended you (and you @Cervidae) we can keep in touch and motivate each other and be support systems. Sound good??

@@ShareeB, first off you are gorgeous and congratulations on taking this step! Secondly, thank you for sharing your story. I am a newbie here and am still pre-op ( just receiving authorization approval today) and I appreciate knowing your post-op experience so I can know what to potentially expect from mine. Although everyone is different, and has a different amazing story to tell, it has been pretty common to read that most people experience this same exact realization that you've come to, so you are not alone! It is so hard to train our minds to not eat what we used to eat, or eat the amounts that we used to eat. Definitely something I've been trying to work on myself. I'm on the liquid diet right now and all I want is a stinking french fry from McDonald's!! lol You're a rockstar and I hope you know that! I wish you nothing but the best and look forward to seeing your progress; I know you'll be successful!

Good Luck to both of you! Lots of happy thoughts and well wishes!!

Thank you @@Cervidae! I am excited to be here! Welcome to you too And congratulations on your surgery next week! I hope you will check in and let all of us know how it goes! I have only told a small handful of people that I am close to about this surgery, and my coworkers since they will be affected by my absence. I trust these people to be discreet, but it hasn't stopped some of them from being naysayers. I am extremely worried about some of my relationships after this. Will my current fluffy friends be jealous of my weight loss and not be my friends anymore or treat me differently? Will my current skinny friends look at me differently? I know that I will be changing, but its for the better! An another note, between writing the original post and this reply..MY SURGERY WAS APPROVED!! Now I just need a date and then I can start getting my mind ready that this is actually happening!