How do you handle the naysayers?

[sweetpea61956 6]

I have posted it on my Facebook page, I have told anyone that I talk to..ok not strangers...but family, friends, etc. I hadn't been to my PCP in over a year and saw him today. I think he was surprised but he said he thought the band was the right way for me to go. Over the years he has seen me lose...but gain more back. I can lose weight, I just can't keep it off and this will be a constant reminder.

Some of my co-workers are concerned, but at the same time very supportive. My birthday is a week after my surgery and they usually have cake for the birthdays. The last person who's birthday it was plans the next, she came to me today to ask what I wanted. We are going to have yogurt!

The naysayers don't understand. But with me, I am 54 years old and 5'2". I weighed 155 when I graduated from High School and in 3 months after that I was at 190. I have done Jenny Craig, Nutrisystems, Weight Watcher, diet pills, doctors...you name it. Its time to live!

[54Shirley 105]

I don't bother about all the NEGATIVE FEEDBACK ! That some of these people can dish out.

They have not walked in my shoes at all ! So how can they possibly know anything that I have done,

or been through. It's not possible as far as I can see.... So they can ramble on with all there wise words of wisdom,

when in turn they are just walking mountains of misinformation ! So I don't listen to them at all.