Re: Getting Sort of Discouraged

[Guest guest]

I was approved on 10/18 and my orientation is not until Jan or Feb from what I hear. So I completely understand your frustrations. But I honestly believe that this is for the better. I am concentrating on the holidays instead of my surgery because once the holidays are over then I am going die hard on my 1200 calorie a day diet to ensure that I will be getting my surgery sooner then later. I was told that I needed to wait for my orientation to loose weight because otherwise it doesn't count, so that is why I am not concentrating on that right now. I have a hard time loosing more then 25 lbs so I don't want to start and make my life harder with trying to loose this 10%. Anyways, I just wanted to say that I am in the same boat and completely understand your frustrations, but I honestly believe that this is for the best. Just think, this will be your last Christmas picture as a morbidly obese woman! Good luck to ya!

sRio Union School DistrictOffice *65 Fax >>> sweetnlow20012001@... 11/3/2004 7:49:36 AM >>>

Good morning everyone. I just wanted to put my thoughts on computer with hopes of receiving some comforting and reassuring responses. I knew when I begun this journey that it would not be a quick journey. I knew there would be some waiting and then some more waiting involved. I can't help but count every single day how long it has been since I was approved, even though it has not been a month yet, how long this could very well take. I was approved on October 21st. I need to find something to occupy my thoughts as it relates to getting my orientation date and the other dates.I know I can wait for this, but just like many others, I don't want to. I realize there are other people that are ahead of me and that we are ALL important here.I will stay the course because I know I am worth every single minute of the day. I just need some encouragement and some ideas on how to get through this lul. Many thanks in advance for your opinions, support, advice and more importantly encouragement.

[Guest guest]

You are absolutely going through normal emotions. While I was waiting

it seemed like it consumed my every thought. It was always

there...When would this happen!! This in my opinion is the mentally

toughest part of this journey. Everyone would say it will get

here...and it did but it didnt make the waiting any easier. Hang in

there!

Huggles

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> Good morning everyone. I just wanted to put my thoughts on

computer

> with hopes of receiving some comforting and reassuring responses.

I

> knew when I begun this journey that it would not be a quick

journey.

> I knew there would be some waiting and then some more waiting

> involved.

>

> I can't help but count every single day how long it has been since

I

> was approved, even though it has not been a month yet, how long

this

> could very well take. I was approved on October 21st. I need to

> find something to occupy my thoughts as it relates to getting my

> orientation date and the other dates.

>

> I know I can wait for this, but just like many others, I don't want

> to. I realize there are other people that are ahead of me and that

> we are ALL important here.

>

> I will stay the course because I know I am worth every single

minute

> of the day. I just need some encouragement and some ideas on how

to

> get through this lul. Many thanks in advance for your opinions,

> support, advice and more importantly encouragement.

[Guest guest]

I know the feeling. I was approved 3 months ago and given a surgery date. I thought that it was a long wait but to be honest the time has flown by. My surgery is scheduled in 12 days and I'm ready. I occupied my time getting everything in my life ready for the big changes coming. I also spent the time getting my motorcycle license and researching the purchase. I'm ready to order my MC just after surgery. The bike is a reward for the weight loss I've already had (50lbs) and for the next 50.

My rational is that the wait is no big deal for a process I've waited for most of my life for.

Good luck & hang in there.

Ronsweetnlow20012001 wrote:

Good morning everyone. I just wanted to put my thoughts on computer with hopes of receiving some comforting and reassuring responses. I knew when I begun this journey that it would not be a quick journey. I knew there would be some waiting and then some more waiting involved. I can't help but count every single day how long it has been since I was approved, even though it has not been a month yet, how long this could very well take. I was approved on October 21st. I need to find something to occupy my thoughts as it relates to getting my orientation date and the other dates.I know I can wait for this, but just like many others, I don't want to. I realize there are other people that are ahead of me and that we are ALL important here.I will stay the course because I know I am worth every single minute of the

day. I just need some encouragement and some ideas on how to get through this lul. Many thanks in advance for your opinions, support, advice and more importantly encouragement.

[Guest guest]

Hi, I was approved last May, and didn't have my orientation until early in

July. Then, since my husband is having surgery, they decided to wait for

me to have my consult so that I could travel up to Freemont with my

husband, something I didn't want and didn't know they had done until he was

just finally getting around to making his orientation appointment and I was

on the phone and asked about my consult. When they realized that I didn't

want to wait, they were willing to give me an appointment for the next

week. Since my husband was going out of town to take care of his mother

who has Alzheimer's that day, and for the weekend, and since I always send

food for him and his mother to eat, I couldn't go that day. As a result of

all that, I didn't get my consult until Oct. 8, andn I don't know when I

will get the surgery. Because I was depressed, I had been binge eating for

comfort, and since I have diabetes my hemoglobin a1c had shot up to

ten. Of course the surgeon says that I have to get my diabetes under

control before I can have the surgery, so I know it won't happen until

sometime early next year, possibly even next spring if I'm lucky. I am

using the time to learn to adopt some of the lifestyle changes that the

surgery will bring and to get my diabetes under control. I just try to

think of it all as a kind of training to learn to use the new

tools--smaller stomach, less absorbent intestines, a new way of eating and

easier exercise--that the surgery will give me. It's kind of like going to

school in a way. This time too shall pass, meanwhile just do the things

you need to do to get ready for the next part of the adventure. It's kind

of like waiting for Christmas to come, isn't it? It always

does. (Smile.) LaWanda At 07:49 AM 11/3/04, you wrote:

>Good morning everyone. I just wanted to put my thoughts on computer

>with hopes of receiving some comforting and reassuring responses. I

>knew when I begun this journey that it would not be a quick journey.

>I knew there would be some waiting and then some more waiting

>involved.

>

>I can't help but count every single day how long it has been since I

>was approved, even though it has not been a month yet, how long this

>could very well take. I was approved on October 21st. I need to

>find something to occupy my thoughts as it relates to getting my

>orientation date and the other dates.

>

>I know I can wait for this, but just like many others, I don't want

>to. I realize there are other people that are ahead of me and that

>we are ALL important here.

>

>I will stay the course because I know I am worth every single minute

>of the day. I just need some encouragement and some ideas on how to

>get through this lul. Many thanks in advance for your opinions,

>support, advice and more importantly encouragement.

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