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  • Comment by blongrl on 12/1/07 6:24 am
    Oh, Connie Girl, you are on your way now. Woooo hoooooo Hope your doing wonderful. Blongrl (bea)
  • Comment by Robin W. on 11/30/07 11:14 am
    It's after the day, but here are still good wishes and prayers for you. As Dr. P says "You DON'T want to be in the New England Journal of Medicine" LOL - drop us all a line when you get home and to the computer! Big hugs, Robin
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SIMPLY STATED.... AMAZING
on October 10, 2008 6:46 pm
That is the only thing that comes to my mind these days
I feel Amazing
I look amazing
I am amazing
Life is amazing
AMAZING........!

THIS IS MY TIME! 
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Slackness and will try to do better!!
on March 15, 2008 10:20 am
Hello OHers....  I'm slack and I raise my hand to admit it...  yep!...  but I do have a good reason!!  I HAVE SO MUCH ENERGY NOW that I do not really sit around like I did.  I do pass through and read to make sure I know whats going on...but I do not take the time to post.  I miss you guys...so I've committed today to do better keeping in the loop here.  

I've updated my post-op pictures and I'm just really shocked by one of the pictures.  Hopefully you can see the one I'm talking about.  

enjoy your weekend and I'll post more...sooner than later...  i commit!  

connie
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headache headache please go away
on January 31, 2008 8:13 pm
i'm really beginning to worry something is wrong.  I've had a headache since last saturday afternoon.  Just feel bad bad!!  not much energy an HEADACHE from HELL.  tomorrow is one full wee!  

i'm scared that something is wrong.!!! 
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Finally
on January 13, 2008 8:13 pm
ok....  i have photo albums all set up now.  I will be adding to them as I can.  what an eye opening experience...   enjoy.
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I can see and feel it
on January 5, 2008 5:44 pm
I can honestly say that when my cousin sent me the pics she had taken of me over the Holidays I was very pleased with what I saw.  I really can see a difference and boy, do I feel it!!  It is such a wonderful feeling to feel GOOD for a change.  

2008 is gonna be great!!  (wow...had a cheerleader moment!)

So...bravely I posted the 4 and 5 week post-op shots. 
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Greetings from Gastonia.  Hello, I'm Connie.  Like most everyone that is a member here I am overweight.  I have struggled with this throughout my life.  Always being tall ... during my early years I was always called large, big, and plump.  I shopped in the big girls section only to deal with my long legs and everything in between.  I guess that never went away.  Being the "big girl" was something I just got use to being.  I was always taller than my other friends....I thought being "bigger" went along with that too.

As I continued into High School the "plump girl" that had the long legs never realized that she was really a great size.  I almost was too skinny when I was a Senior and looking at my pictures now...I could swear I was almost too thin.  (What a trip...and I thought I was HUGE!)

Going off to college I gained the fabulous freshman 15lbs and from there folks.... I think the writing is on the wall.  THOSE 15 TURNED INTO 10...THEN 20...THEN 30....ETC, ETC, ETC.   I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about ....unfortunately.

Well I am here to tell you that once I hit my 30s those pounds just kept pouring on.  I turned around and here I am.  Getting ready to be FORTY...and I gotta do something.  and I AM!!!  

I have been investigating WLS for over 2 years and finally decided to take the steps to do it.  There have been some great success stories  of some friends and family in this past year and I decided that I am worth this also.  In the past several years my health has continued to decline and the last PCP visit I had a diagnosis of pre-diabetes. 

That diagnosis alone has made me wake up.  I lost my mother 3 years ago due to complications of diabetes at the young age of 59.  She was the strongest person I ever knew and always had a smile on her face regardless of her pain, fear, or sickness.  She battled this horrible silent killer and I watched it destroy her soul....  For the love of my mother and her spirit I cannot let this happen to me.  My father said something to me just a few days after her funeral that has and will forever stick in my mind...and ultimately made this decision for WLS....


My father said to me that it would destroy him to have to put the two women he loves more than anything in the world in the ground before he is in the ground himself.  He broke down crying, scared I would leave him too.    At that very moment I decided I would wait no more to move forward with this journey.  

I want to live...  I want to be healthy.  I want to be CONNIE again.  

My Countdown starts.....all paperwork has been submitted to Carolina WeightLoss in Concord, NC!!!! 

 


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