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NSV and encouraging rant to voice in head - To the voice inside my head: You may stop ranting on in your panicked state.  I hear the fear in your voice that there are many changes going on in our life right now.  TRUS...

Update on Progress - So recently, I went through some questions that got me focused back on weight loss.  I am so thrilled with the results!  I have lost 3 pounds!  I just needed to tweak a couple t...

Where attention goes, energy flows - I reached my goal weight and then set another, and another, and a few more.  I finally decided on a goal weight of 160 pounds.  This is where I feel healthy and where my body se...

What would you do? - I find that I am HUNGRY later in the evenings but not at suppertime.  I usually get to eat supper around 6pm.  However, it is RIGHT when I get home from work.  I am still unwind...

Feeding the Soul - My whole life I have struggled with depression and the same is true even after WLS.  I thought I had finally had it beat because for almost two years after surgery I was medicat...

Hello Again - I stopped writing my blog for almost a year.  I still journaled regularly.  I just didn't blog.  I don't know why I stopped exactly except that someone said that they had found ...

Wow. You know I have read and followed you as you and I have...

Learning Lessons - This past month has been extremely stressful for me.  I am working 2 jobs, single mom of 2 children with no help from my ex-husband, and then my dad got very ill.  He is a kidne...

Grateful! - I am filled with such gratitude today that I had to share.  A lot of the times when I post, it is to get the bad information my head tries to tell me that I feel like it may see...

Ventilation - I usually try to keep really positive because that is so needed in my new life!  Today the blues have me in their grip and so once again, i need to purge old negative info from my ...

Set point? - Hey I just wanted to hear from people who have heard about set point or been told they had reached theirs.  If you find any links in your arsenals, I would love those as well.  I h...

Hey Brenda! It's your friendly Iowa swimmer here! I would love to...

Best compliment ever from one of my brothers - I am an only girl out of 6 kids.  I admit to being both a spoiled princess and a kick ass tom boy who screams at football games on the television.  I am okay with it.  I am well lo...

Can I GRR for a minute before building a bridge? - I KNOW this is my mind playing games with my will to succeed and be healthy.  I want to say that up front.  I also want you to know that I am USING you people.  One of the tools I ...

Treating the mind first? - Recently, the state I live in, Iowa, attempted to stop medicaid from paying for WLS.  That decision was overturned.  Why should it worry everyone that it was attempted?  Well, beca...

The BEST Exercise? - In support group, you hear many questions asked and answered over and over again.  This one came up again and it tickled me when my doctor once again gave my favorite answer. Wh...

Crap! It IS me! (bit of a rant about dating) - I always thought that I attracted turds because I was feeling so crappy about being overweight.  I settled for bad behavior when I should have told them to get bent.  I always thou...

Relationships changing -  UGH!  I tried to explain this a million times in this post and I keep deleting it.  It makes both of us sound like damaged creatures which I guess we are, but we arent mean or evi...

Offended but justified? - I have been seeing this guy for a couple months now.  I am honest fairly quickly about my weight loss.  It comes up rather quickly anyway.  I lost a lot of weight and have a lot of...

NSV!! - I have been pretty good at keeping track of all those victories we have through this process that make us smile.  Well, I had another one this weekend.  While it may seem vain and ...

The Fighter - I am who I am today because of the obsticles i have over come, the people i have loved and who have loved me, and all the good and bad moments in my journey so far.  I am grateful ...

WOOO HOOO!! -  For the first time in my adult life....and most of my childhood.......   i am a normal bmi!  and a normal weight for my height!  My nurse asked me to pick a number i wanted to get...