Originally Posted by MissyGirl
Thank you all so much! I know I could not have done it without your support!! Now iis when the real work starts. I have the lap band but I have to eat the right way and exercise. Some people think that weight loss surgery is the cure. This is not so. It is only a tool to help us get to where we want and need to be.
Again...THANK YOU SO MUCH!! I care deeply for you guys and am so thankful I joined this challenge more than a year ago.
Missy
You are so right.Surgery is not the magic 'pill'.There is no such a thing as losing weight easy.That's why so many fail at it.It takes hard work and determination and the ability to say no to yourself and sacrifice and the wanting of it bad enough to continue and keep it off.The old fashioned way is unfortunately the only way to lose.We have to eat less calories and burn more than we take in to see a drop on the scales.You been working out several times a week,watching your calorie intake,as well as drinking lots of fluids.So,you've put in and got a reward of about a 90 pound loss too,like me.Without surgery even been done yet.And will continue to go on and work out hard after you heal up.I'd like to see the ones who say it's easy with surgery,do that,go to the gym 3 times a week,eat with in a certain calorie count,and after they lose 90 pounds,come back and tell you "That was EASY!"