Made me grateful - ThinnerTimes

sUzYzPLaCe · 09-11-2005, 10:22 AM

Yesterday I had the pleasure of doing paperwork for a Mother and Daughter who were great to deal with.

Only thing that made me sad for them both is their weight. Mother was so MO that she had to use a walker. Daughter was not so bad she was there to help her Mother. The mother was just exhausted after walking 10 steps to my office from the waiting room. She was about 5'0 and her DL said she weighed 275. It made me so grateful that I have had this surgery to regain my life. It hasn't been so long ago that I can't remember what it feels like to be winded walking up stairs, or just walking to my car from the store. I am more and more noticing MO people and their struggles. When you are struggling right along with them I didn't seem to notice as much.

Just another thing I have to be grateful for today. I am slowly getting my health back!

Suzy

Lynne3 · 09-11-2005, 04:53 PM

I am really nowhere close to having the surgery...., but since reading up on it and hearing from you all I have "seen" MO people differently......and feel so really awful for them.......and here I am still one of them

SO, YOU must really feel for them even more, SUZYZPLACE.....

Also, I've seen the phrase....."getting my life back".......so much......but, it must really describe it in a nutshell.

I'm soooooo glad for you Suzy

Bypassingme619 · 09-11-2005, 11:02 PM

Suzy I think that is so true. I have always been very in touch with MO individuals out and about. Because have always wondered was I that size or did I look bigger. But now being on the losing side I kind want to walk up to them and ask them their story and let them know that there is a chance at life if they are willing to make serious change. Maybe I feel guilty for feeling this way. For some reason I just want to embrace all the people I see who are suffering from MO. It is a language only another MO person can understand.

sUzYzPLaCe · 09-12-2005, 10:36 AM

How do you approach someone and say.. Oh by the way you can have Gastric Bypass and get your life back without insulting them? I'd love to say something to them.. but it would be pretty weird conversation. Suzy

Gladitsme · 09-12-2005, 11:04 AM

Suzy,

Sadly, you can't. I took 12 years thinking it over before I decided I had had enough of MO. People who are in the throes of it may just think you're putting them down if you try to tell them.

Jennimaria · 09-12-2005, 01:52 PM

I too see MO people differently now. From what I've been told, I never looked "that" big, but I always did compare myself to other overweight people wondering if I was as big and all that jazz. I really do feel bad for the severly MO people, but when I see them at Wendy's eating a Biggie size meal and a biggie Regular Coke it is quite hard for me to feel as bad sometimes. It could also be my small stomach that now gets freaked out by the huge portions that people eat these days.

I can't believe how much this surgery has put everything into perspective. I couldn't be happier for this second chance at a healthy life.

Lojak7 · 09-12-2005, 03:40 PM

you know what, yes we were that big. keep it in your head. I have a confession. I carry a picture around with me. A picture of me that was taken in January of 2005, it was at work, It was taken from the side, I was looking at the camera and smiling, but you could tell, how uncomfortable I was. I was 440 lbs, and dying-at a rapid rate. I am getting closer to my goal, i actually revised my goal today. It was 220, but I changed it to 200. When I started I never thought I would see 220, but as of this morning I am 9 lbs away from that...........But back to my confession. I look at that picture everyday. Not more than a few seconds, I don't dwell, but When I look at it, I sometimes do not even recognize myself. I never thought I ever looked that bad, but you know what......I did look that bad. I want to remind myself, everday if only for 2 seconds, yes-i did look that bad, and yes this is a life long fight, and yes things could change, and I could gain weight again. It is not an obsession, just a quick friendly reminer to myself. To never loose sight of my goal. My goal is not really a number, but a feeling.