Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 In a message dated 4/25/2003 2:20:28 AM Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: > Hey, if I had a chef and a personal trainer and a bazillion dollars, I could > have lost weight, too! Marta > Hey, I have ALWAYS said that....Her and carnie wilson too. I mean if you didn't have to worry about stuff like that and hired someone to monitor every bite that goes in your mouth, failure isn't much of an option. Besides, If I had a Bazillion dollars, I could find enough to do, that food would be really low on my list....LOL. Also...Carnie has a psych she can call if she needs a Pep talk....How do you think these guys who do our psych evals would like it if we called at 3 am for a pep talk to keep us from going in and eating the rest of the ice cream?? I don't think it would be tolerated too well!! in Bama http://hometown.aol.com/mdl1031/myhomepage/profile.html Surgery- RNY to DS revision on12/6 -377.5 12/17 - 346.5 ( minus 31lbs) 01/15- 338.1 (minus 39.1lbs) 02/12-330.0 (minus 47.5 lbs) 04/06- 324.3 (minus 53.2 lbs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 In a message dated 4/25/2003 2:20:28 AM Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: > Hey, if I had a chef and a personal trainer and a bazillion dollars, I could > have lost weight, too! Marta > Hey, I have ALWAYS said that....Her and carnie wilson too. I mean if you didn't have to worry about stuff like that and hired someone to monitor every bite that goes in your mouth, failure isn't much of an option. Besides, If I had a Bazillion dollars, I could find enough to do, that food would be really low on my list....LOL. Also...Carnie has a psych she can call if she needs a Pep talk....How do you think these guys who do our psych evals would like it if we called at 3 am for a pep talk to keep us from going in and eating the rest of the ice cream?? I don't think it would be tolerated too well!! in Bama http://hometown.aol.com/mdl1031/myhomepage/profile.html Surgery- RNY to DS revision on12/6 -377.5 12/17 - 346.5 ( minus 31lbs) 01/15- 338.1 (minus 39.1lbs) 02/12-330.0 (minus 47.5 lbs) 04/06- 324.3 (minus 53.2 lbs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 24, 2003 Report Share Posted April 24, 2003 In a message dated 4/25/2003 2:20:28 AM Central Daylight Time, mjs93311@... writes: > Hey, if I had a chef and a personal trainer and a bazillion dollars, I could > have lost weight, too! Marta > Hey, I have ALWAYS said that....Her and carnie wilson too. I mean if you didn't have to worry about stuff like that and hired someone to monitor every bite that goes in your mouth, failure isn't much of an option. Besides, If I had a Bazillion dollars, I could find enough to do, that food would be really low on my list....LOL. Also...Carnie has a psych she can call if she needs a Pep talk....How do you think these guys who do our psych evals would like it if we called at 3 am for a pep talk to keep us from going in and eating the rest of the ice cream?? I don't think it would be tolerated too well!! in Bama http://hometown.aol.com/mdl1031/myhomepage/profile.html Surgery- RNY to DS revision on12/6 -377.5 12/17 - 346.5 ( minus 31lbs) 01/15- 338.1 (minus 39.1lbs) 02/12-330.0 (minus 47.5 lbs) 04/06- 324.3 (minus 53.2 lbs) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 I didn't see the Oprah show...I know her feelings on wls. Personally I don't think it's a bad thing. After Carnie made wls almost an everyday word, people started jumping on the surgery wagon left and right. If Oprah makes you stop and think.. that is a good thing. Surgery is a serious life long alteration of our digestive system and shouldn't be jumped into like a fad diet. If Oprah's opinion keeps you from having surgery then your weren't ready for it in the first place. Oprah is one of the reasons I decided to have surgery. I was struggling with the issue...thinking thoughts like " how can you mutilate your body " .... " why can't you just Stick to a diet " I was losing sleep struggling with the decision making process. One afternoon I plopped down in front of the TV and Oprah was on...I thought " my God she is gaining again...If a woman who has exercised as much as she has, can hire a personnel trainer, a cook, a woman who is smart and an achiever....if she can't keep the weight off why the hell do I think I can. " It was that moment that My thought process started to change...I quit beating myself up emotionally over my failure to diet and keep it off...I started to think...why not surgery? When your gallbladder was attacking you, removing it wasn't considered mutilation...when you had your tubes tied to prevent pregnancies, you considered that taking control of your life not mutulation....so why isn't wls fixing what has gone wrong and taking control.....So even if Oprah doesn't advocate wls, her own personal ongoing struggle can speak louder than words...if your ready to hear. Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 I didn't see the Oprah show...I know her feelings on wls. Personally I don't think it's a bad thing. After Carnie made wls almost an everyday word, people started jumping on the surgery wagon left and right. If Oprah makes you stop and think.. that is a good thing. Surgery is a serious life long alteration of our digestive system and shouldn't be jumped into like a fad diet. If Oprah's opinion keeps you from having surgery then your weren't ready for it in the first place. Oprah is one of the reasons I decided to have surgery. I was struggling with the issue...thinking thoughts like " how can you mutilate your body " .... " why can't you just Stick to a diet " I was losing sleep struggling with the decision making process. One afternoon I plopped down in front of the TV and Oprah was on...I thought " my God she is gaining again...If a woman who has exercised as much as she has, can hire a personnel trainer, a cook, a woman who is smart and an achiever....if she can't keep the weight off why the hell do I think I can. " It was that moment that My thought process started to change...I quit beating myself up emotionally over my failure to diet and keep it off...I started to think...why not surgery? When your gallbladder was attacking you, removing it wasn't considered mutilation...when you had your tubes tied to prevent pregnancies, you considered that taking control of your life not mutulation....so why isn't wls fixing what has gone wrong and taking control.....So even if Oprah doesn't advocate wls, her own personal ongoing struggle can speak louder than words...if your ready to hear. Jo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 Kristy, This is Marla in Denver. I, too, am a fan of Oprah. The best I ever felt physically was when, because of her influence, I lost 90 lbs on Optifast. Now, I know she is not perfect. I know she has a temper and that she has acted out in public. But, she has had a major influence on the American population as a whole. An example of this would be: I had a neighbor who was a right wing, gun-toting with a " hang all felons " mentality. She was anti-gay, anti-moderate, anti-freedom of speech, anti-everything! She started watching Oprah and within a few years she began to open up her mind and her views on people and events. Everything was not black and white, and she recognized that there are gray areas. Today she can open up and talk about her feelings. She is warm and friendly, not judgmental, and has even locked up her guns in a cabinet. She says that is because of the grandchildren and they have been robbed a couple times for the guns. It was wonderful watching her change in her attitudes and views. She thinks Oprah is responsible for that. I know Oprah has a couple close friends who have had weight loss surgery. One was Luther Vandros. I think the positive things she has done far outweigh the negative ones. Just my two cents............mjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 Kristy, This is Marla in Denver. I, too, am a fan of Oprah. The best I ever felt physically was when, because of her influence, I lost 90 lbs on Optifast. Now, I know she is not perfect. I know she has a temper and that she has acted out in public. But, she has had a major influence on the American population as a whole. An example of this would be: I had a neighbor who was a right wing, gun-toting with a " hang all felons " mentality. She was anti-gay, anti-moderate, anti-freedom of speech, anti-everything! She started watching Oprah and within a few years she began to open up her mind and her views on people and events. Everything was not black and white, and she recognized that there are gray areas. Today she can open up and talk about her feelings. She is warm and friendly, not judgmental, and has even locked up her guns in a cabinet. She says that is because of the grandchildren and they have been robbed a couple times for the guns. It was wonderful watching her change in her attitudes and views. She thinks Oprah is responsible for that. I know Oprah has a couple close friends who have had weight loss surgery. One was Luther Vandros. I think the positive things she has done far outweigh the negative ones. Just my two cents............mjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2003 Report Share Posted April 26, 2003 Kristy, This is Marla in Denver. I, too, am a fan of Oprah. The best I ever felt physically was when, because of her influence, I lost 90 lbs on Optifast. Now, I know she is not perfect. I know she has a temper and that she has acted out in public. But, she has had a major influence on the American population as a whole. An example of this would be: I had a neighbor who was a right wing, gun-toting with a " hang all felons " mentality. She was anti-gay, anti-moderate, anti-freedom of speech, anti-everything! She started watching Oprah and within a few years she began to open up her mind and her views on people and events. Everything was not black and white, and she recognized that there are gray areas. Today she can open up and talk about her feelings. She is warm and friendly, not judgmental, and has even locked up her guns in a cabinet. She says that is because of the grandchildren and they have been robbed a couple times for the guns. It was wonderful watching her change in her attitudes and views. She thinks Oprah is responsible for that. I know Oprah has a couple close friends who have had weight loss surgery. One was Luther Vandros. I think the positive things she has done far outweigh the negative ones. Just my two cents............mjb Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 No, what's on? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry oprah is anyone watching oprah right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 I just turned it on, my 3 y/o was having the temper tantrum of the century. A woman from Mauritania (Africa) who says men prefer women who are overweight, divorced, etc. oprah is anyone watching oprah right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 The moral being that you are as beautiful as you think you are! Subject: Re: oprah To: insideoutweightloss Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:46 PM I just turned it on, my 3 y/o was having the temper tantrum of the century. A woman from Mauritania (Africa) who says men prefer women who are overweight, divorced, etc. [insideoutweightlos s] oprah is anyone watching oprah right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 What a concept...sexy at 60! I'm not sixty yet, but I feel so invisible. From: K <clevelandteacher@ gmail.com> Subject: Re: [insideoutweightlos s] oprah To: insideoutweightloss @yahoogroups. com Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 4:46 PM I just turned it on, my 3 y/o was having the temper tantrum of the century. A woman from Mauritania (Africa) who says men prefer women who are overweight, divorced, etc. [insideoutweightlos s] oprah is anyone watching oprah right now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 With cellulite. Shall we move? Snort. Oh and the men have to be thin and handsome. At least that guy in the audience was a cutie. It's all sassy fabulous: <http://blog.liedel.org/> Blog.liedel.org Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 Or that with my extra ski Mauritania is my new vacation destination. It's all sassy fabulous: <http://blog.liedel.org/> Blog.liedel.org From: insideoutweightloss [mailto:insideoutweightloss ] On Behalf Of jean davison Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:51 PM To: insideoutweightloss Subject: Re: oprah The moral being that you are as beautiful as you think you are! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2009 Report Share Posted February 6, 2009 That was France. You are NOT invisible. Go look in the mirror. If people are too suck on themselves and their issues to notice your beauty, that is NOT your problem. It's all sassy fabulous: <http://blog.liedel.org/> Blog.liedel.org From: insideoutweightloss [mailto:insideoutweightloss ] On Behalf Of jean davison Sent: Friday, February 06, 2009 4:55 PM To: insideoutweightloss Subject: Re: oprah What a concept...sexy at 60! I'm not sixty yet, but I feel so invisible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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