The Housekeeper

Hi Friends, someone on the Texas Message board copied this from another WLS group she is in and I wanted to share it......really puts this journey in perspective....that life goes on but our decisions will affect the outcome....let's remember the honeymoon period was the quick weight loss, now the rest is up to us and using our tool wisely. Hope you enjoy! Dana The Housekeeper One day you discover that you've won a huge mansion and with it comes a live-in housekeeper who will reside there and keep that mansion perfectly clean for about a year. Wow, how lucky you think you are! This huge home, it never gets messy, no matter what. Even if you don't see the housekeeper (she/he) is constantly right there to clean up any mess, intentional or otherwise. Neato! You are in bliss because your surroundings are so impeccible that it doesn't even occur to you after a while that your huge home can even GET messy. That's how efficient your housekeeper is. It's funny because you see other people's houses and forgetting you have this live in housekeeper, you wonder how the hell they can have such a messy house? Shoudn't *their* house be as perfectly clean as yours? You believe with certainty it should, because it's easy to have an impeccably clean home (hey *you* have one, they should too). You get pretty critical and high and mighty about it even. Your friends might try and explain that they either don't have a housekeeper, or they had one and she left after a year....but it falls on deaf ears. Because your home is still being cleaned by your perfect housekeeper. In a small moment of clarity you think (maybe after 10 months of having the housekeeper), maybe I should pay a little attention to what she does, because she's scheduled to leave soon. But POOF, soon as that thought comes it leaves....NAW....she's *dedicated* to me, I know they said I'd have her for a year, but I'm gonna be the lucky one, she'll wanna stay with me forever. So the thought leaves and you allow her to continue cleaning at a feverish rate. You are so busy that sometime after a year, you notice bit by bit your house is......a little messy? What? How did this happen? You call for your housekeeper. Wow, she left and didn't even say goodbye. Well, a little mess is probably ok. You've lived in far worse cir****tances before. You'll just clear a path here and there and try and not notice it. The mess gets bigger and bigger. You don't have a clue what to do, because the housekeeper was so effecient and your mansion seems so large. This wasn't supposed to happen. After all, you always made messes in the past year and they got cleaned up lickety split. You are making the same exact messes now, but instead they are PILING up. It seems so unfair. You want to hang your head in shame. The mansion which was the center of your world is now a mere building which is filling you with fear and shame. This is the process many of us go through with the honeymoon, the arrogant phase and regain.

This is a great story!! Perfect for us WLS patients!! Thanks for sharing! Lisa 371/341/187/140