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Today is my 2 month surgiversary...I have been feeling so much better,lost 37 lbs and alot of inches so I go to see my grandgirl at cheer camp and two people stop me to tell me 1. I look amazing and 2. they would not have know me if I had'nt been with my daughter. Makes you feel so empowered.

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YAY. Huge gratz. You have done really well. It must feel great to get those compliments. Keep up the good work.

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This is great Carla. It looks like you're moving closer to onederland. That's exciting.

Have you told people that you had surgery? I know that's an ongoing debate here on VST. I had pretty much decided to tell - AFTER surgery. Well, now the after is here and I'm a little gun shy about telling. I did tell a close trusted friend and she was very supportive and felt that I didn't need to tell people because it wasn't their business.

I think I'm still leaning toward telling just because I don't want to expend the extra energy on creatively explaining all the great dieting and exercising I did to lose weight. I figure I can say I had surgery and move on. (I don't plan to give any details about my surgery or eating habits.) What do you think?

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Hey Educationrulz, I can't wait to be in onederland! I did tell my Aunt who lives next door and is a verison of Mrs.Kravitz on Bewitched (lol) and she took care of it by putting on a prayer board at church. Our town is small with 3 redlights so it's mostly common knowledge.I'm ok with that and have a friend and a brother looking into this surgery aready but no one else has commented other than to compliment me. I hope you are doing well and have a good 4th of July!!

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Carla - OMG!! I live in a small town with NO stoplights and I have to admit I go

t a chuckle out of the prayer group thing.

Mary - I have thought alot about what I want to tell people when they start to notice the weightloss. In the end, I think I will want to tell people because if it can help someone else, then that would be great. But I also think I need a little time with it for myself, so what I have decided to say until I am ready to tell the rest of the story is that the weightloss has been a very personal thing for me and has been alot of hard work. Both of those things are true, and hopefully by saying it has been a very personal thing, it might keep people from being too nosy. Time will tell.

Kathy

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cwalker,

Brava! You're over half-way to goal in such a short time! I cannot wait for my own NSVs. So glad you shared yours. :o

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Congratulations!! You're doing so great!

Have you noticed your restriction really kicking in over the last few weeks?

You're just one day behind me and for the past few weeks my restriction has really kicked in and I've been completely amazed at how little I can eat!

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Hey Goodlife, yeah I have really noticed more restriction just in last 2 weeks it seems. Have a good 4th of July!

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