As you guys know, I’ve been struggling a bit, so instead of spinning my wheels, I decided to take a completely different tactic than I ever have before. I’m going to give therapy a try AND I went to my first WLS support group last night.
I called yesterday and set up a therapy appointment for next Tuesday, so I’ll definitely post all about that next week. As far as the WLS support group, I decided to make a video blog:
I mentioned this in the video, but for those of you who don’t have 11 minutes to spare (which I totally understand!), I wanted to make sure to highlight the fact that last night I met up with someone I met through YouTube. It was exciting, because she’s the first person I’ve ever met in person whom I’ve first “met” online. (ScaleWarfare, I hope you’re next!!) Sylvia aka BeautyJunkie824 is just as sweet in person as she comes across in her videos. She drove quite a distance (over an hour) to come to the meeting, but it was really great to get the chance to meet her.
It was nice to see that we vibed just as easily in person and we did online. After the group we headed to Starbucks for some iced tea and we just gabbed about the wls group, our lives, our diets, and our hopes with the surgery. She’s also getting VSG, which is so nice. Now there will be two other people who are going through the same path as I am, just a bit before me. The other exciting thing was that she just found out this morning that her surgery is scheduled for Aug. 30th! So, now SW is having hers Aug. 22 and BeautyJunkie824 is having hers Aug. 30, so I need to get my butt in gear and join them on “the loser’s bench” as people in the wls community say when people have the surgery. Knowing that they’re both getting the surgery soon really motivates me to qualify and get my scheduled, too.
I have a few changes up my sleeve that I’m excited to tell you all about in the coming days.
Bella on the Beach 
I am so happy that we are close enough to support each other in person too! Can’t wait to meet up again!
I think it’s awesome that you were able to meet in “real life”!!! Having someone you can actually meet up with on a regular basis on this path is going to be so helpful. I think the support group meetings will also help in so many ways. I think they build a real sense of community and are also probably very motivational 🙂
I seriously hope we can meet up in 2012!
We should definitely make it a goal to meet up once we’ve both had our surgeries, lost some weight, and can fly comfortably. 🙂 Maybe summer 2012?