I had a friend that I have been very close with for about 15 years come and visit me this weekend. We are close enough that I can tell her that she needs to take a shower cause she's funky and she calls me Billy and lets me know it's time for a wax.

Anyway, I had told her of my decision to have WLS and she started crying. She is so happy for me and said that she has missed me so much.

Then she brought to my attention something that I did not realize before. She...

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It's official fall has hit Burlington. The building that I work in has always had "issues" with wild life. Bats in the stairwells, deer and foxes running in the parking lot and our favorite "Pissed off Pete the turkey". There are lots of wild turkeys in this are and every fall the same one (I hope it's the same one) "Pissy Pete" comes back to the building.

Pete makes sure that the women in the building are getting their excercise as he chases them...

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I have been thinking and thinking of this for a couple of years. Now that I have finally started the process I am wondering how I could have been so thick before and why I put it off all this time.

After doing a lot of soul searching and reading of old diaries I found that I was using the weight as a way to to make myself invisible. Fat women are not seen nor is anything expected of them. I could be in a room with people and no one knew I was there.

I had become...

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Wowzers my very own blog at my new home. By the way who took my grapes? I had my name on em.

Where o where to start.....Hi I'm Charlie and I'm a food addict and emotional wreck.

As some know by now I am an idiot. I know this, welcome it, and embrace it.

I have been battling weight for 20 years now. Thank goodness I have an amazingly wonderful hubby that loved me at 4'10 80lbs and still desires me at 5' 230 though he does not know that weight....

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