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03-24-2006, 07:10 AM
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| Administrator  |  Sharing Your Experience - March 24, 2006 Thought for the Day Strength comes from honestly telling your own experiences with eating pre and post-op. In religion, they call it confession. We call it witnessing or sharing. You give a personal witness, you share your past experiences, the troubles you felt, the diets, the pills, the arguments in your home, the money wasted, the "all you can eat" binges, and all the foolish things you did when you were eating out of control. This personal witness lets out the things you had kept hidden, brings them out into the open, and you find release and strength. Am I receiving strength from my personal witnessing? Meditation for the Day We cannot fully understand the universe. The simple fact is that we cannot even define space or time. They are both boundless, in spite of all we can do to limit them. We live in a box of space and time, which we have manufactured by our own minds and on that depends all our so called knowledge of the universe. The simple fact is that we can never know all things, nor are we made to know them. Much of our lives must be taken on faith. Prayer for the Day I pray that my faith may be based on my own experience of the power of God in my life. I pray that I may know this one thing above all else.
__________________ Craig T 11 years PostOp Open RNY - 2 TT's Last edited by CraigT : 03-26-2006 at 09:24 AM. |
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03-24-2006, 07:48 AM
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| Super Moderator  | May we always be encompassed by the limitless love and limitless forgiveness of the only One.
__________________ "In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun."   Just a li'l bit 'bout myself  |
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03-26-2006, 10:07 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, USA
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Height:   | Well, in order to promote honesty Craig, I am witnessing, or sharing the fact that in one last(hopefully) moment of indulgence I just downed 10 oreos with a cup of milk since tomorrow is my nutrition class and upper endoscopy. I am not allowed any food past midnight and no liquids past 10am tomorrow untill my test is done tomorrow afternoon. I am just grateful that this test is going down me instead of up. I overheard some of the not so fortunate patients receiving their pre-test instructions and mine are a lot easier to deal with....lol. Does this count as what you were talking about? Janae |
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03-27-2006, 10:19 AM
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| Administrator | Janae, thank you for chiming in. Self honesty can be one of our great challenges. Was I really ever that "big boned" hehe, Know what I mean. It is important to share our experience strenth and hope with others, while at the same time not recklessly dumping our deepest darkest thoughts and life into the streets of the public square. You are doing awesome. I highly encourage you to journal as you travel this incredible journey. Sometime, just honestly dumping things on to pen and paper can give us a real balance over what are just the facts of our life. Keep up the great work.
__________________ Craig T 11 years PostOp Open RNY - 2 TT's |
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03-27-2006, 07:09 PM
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| Cub Reporter  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Central City, KY
Posts: 61
Weight Statistics April 27, 2005 Start Date:
April 27, 2005 Surgery Date:
Height: 267 lb Start Weight:
128 lb Current Weight:
115 lb Goal Weight:
139 lb Weight Loss:
13 lb Lb Left to Lose:
52.0599250936 % % Lost:
December 24, 2007 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 55.8 BMI Start:
27.2 BMI Current:
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Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  |  Well, I just ate a bite of yellow cake with chocolate icing. I don't usually do this as sugar makes me dump super bad. But I found I was craving just a taste of chocolate, so I indulged myself. But I am so afraid of dumping that I won't take more than one bite. There was a time not quite a year ago that I would have eaten half the twelve serving cake I made for my husband. And then I would have tried to rationalize by saying "well, I haven't eaten all day so I just had to have something", or "I just couldn't help myself!", or "I didn't eat it all!" Now I eat what is good for me most of the time. I do sometimes give in when I have a craving because I know how to use moderation. It hasn't been easy by any stretch of the imagination. But the journey has been worth it. And the long terms benefits are amazing. 
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03-28-2006, 09:12 AM
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| WLS Master Guru  Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Near St. Louis, MO
Posts: 633
Weight Statistics June 17, 2005 Start Date:
June 17, 2005 Surgery Date:
5' 2" Height: 313 lb Start Weight:
173 lb Current Weight:
140 lb Goal Weight:
140 lb Weight Loss:
33 lb Lb Left to Lose:
44.7284345048 % % Lost:
don't have a set goal date, I take it day by day that way I don't get discouraged Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 57.2421956296 BMI Start:
31.6386576483 BMI Current:
25.6035379813 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass | Hey willa! Where have you been? We all miss you greatly in the chat room. Come see us soon! Shelley
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09-08-2006, 11:36 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: May 2006
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5' 6" Height: | This is an "old" thread but it's right where I need to be tonight. It's amazing what one can find when one goes looking for it!!!! God heard my prayers and the cool thing is...I heard his answer!!! Thank you God for working through the wonderful people on this site and comforting those who need it.  Kat Last edited by Kat : 09-08-2006 at 11:45 PM. |
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09-12-2006, 12:07 AM
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| Seasoned Veteran  Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: NYC ~ Love it!!!
Posts: 2,988
Weight Statistics 4/19/06 Surgery Date:
5' 8" Height: 333 lb Start Weight:
171 lb Current Weight:
155 lb Goal Weight:
162 lb Weight Loss:
16 lb Lb Left to Lose:
48.6486486486 % % Lost:
010/19/08 Goal Date:
Body Mass Index 50.6269463668 BMI Start:
25.9976211073 BMI Current:
23.5650951557 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss Method Roux en Y Gastric Bypass  |  Wow... KAT....thanks for finding it!!! This is amazing wisdom from our "main man wls guru extroidenaire"....wow!!! Thanks sooo much... CRAIG....if you are out there!?!?!!!! I love your insite....you had 9 yrs to look deep within from your WLS...but thank you soooo much for generous spirit....for starting this board....and for sharing not only what you've learned since surgery and weightloss...but also all that God is showing you....and has given you!!! Thanks you two!!
__________________ Deborah  Lap RNY Gastric Bypass follow my "Journey and Progress" at www.femmemodeweightloss.blogspot.com    |
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09-13-2006, 06:40 PM
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| Seasoned Veteran Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, USA
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Height: | Craig if you are out there......helllllooooo we miss ya tons. I hope that you can come online again soon and tell us how you are doing and how everything is. janae |
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