Happy New Year-Let's start over!
Hi Everyone!
I hope Christmas and the holidays were good to you. I am just glad they are over! I am so tired of seeing all the "perfect" little mothers/wives/hostesses on TV with their happy-assed smiles plastered on their faces looking like Martha Stewart with energy to spare! I am grateful to be getting back to the "real" world of work, family-good and bad- and life on life's terms! Whew! To be able to be human again and not have to feel like I have to live up to some unachievable role model is refreshing, isn't it?
So, ya'll, in this New Year, I am going to choose to try to start my days with a positive action, like taking a walk, making a special breakfast, putting on sweet smelling lotion after shaving my legs or buying a cup of steaming hot coffee at the McDonald's drive-thru on my way to work-just because I can! I find that by starting off my day on a positive note that the whole day seems to be filled with better choices! I resolve to make better eating choices and to try to plan ahead somewhat so that I can eat better and take better care of myself. I resolve to let others fix their own miserable problems, too. Gee, I am so tired of trying to drive everyone's boat. Heck, I'm jumpin' overboard or at least moving to the back of the ship! If it doesn't directly concern ME, I resolve to put my ego (and my need to be in control) in a zip lock bag and stuff it in my pocket until it can learn to shut up! Maybe I can get some peace and quiet in this old brain of mine in this New Year by following these few simple steps!
Maybe if I would eat dog biscuits instead of a cookie when I want to noshe, I could lose some weight....
Ho Ho Ho,
Karen (gratefully still sober almost 2 years!)
I hope Christmas and the holidays were good to you. I am just glad they are over! I am so tired of seeing all the "perfect" little mothers/wives/hostesses on TV with their happy-assed smiles plastered on their faces looking like Martha Stewart with energy to spare! I am grateful to be getting back to the "real" world of work, family-good and bad- and life on life's terms! Whew! To be able to be human again and not have to feel like I have to live up to some unachievable role model is refreshing, isn't it?
So, ya'll, in this New Year, I am going to choose to try to start my days with a positive action, like taking a walk, making a special breakfast, putting on sweet smelling lotion after shaving my legs or buying a cup of steaming hot coffee at the McDonald's drive-thru on my way to work-just because I can! I find that by starting off my day on a positive note that the whole day seems to be filled with better choices! I resolve to make better eating choices and to try to plan ahead somewhat so that I can eat better and take better care of myself. I resolve to let others fix their own miserable problems, too. Gee, I am so tired of trying to drive everyone's boat. Heck, I'm jumpin' overboard or at least moving to the back of the ship! If it doesn't directly concern ME, I resolve to put my ego (and my need to be in control) in a zip lock bag and stuff it in my pocket until it can learn to shut up! Maybe I can get some peace and quiet in this old brain of mine in this New Year by following these few simple steps!
Maybe if I would eat dog biscuits instead of a cookie when I want to noshe, I could lose some weight....
Ho Ho Ho,
Karen (gratefully still sober almost 2 years!)
Hi Connie,
Thank you so much for your good wishes. It means a lot to me that you are proud. I was so stunned to ever find myself in an addictive situation and am so grateful that through the grace of God, found my way to sobriety. Life is so darn precious, isn't it? I just worked too hard, with this surgery, etc., to throw it all away into a bottle. But there are so many silent ones out there who have not been as fortunate... I see it all the time in support group meetings. When I share my story, occassionally others contact me about their secret lives and it breaks my heart. I do everything I can to help them by sharing my expenience, strenght and hope so that they, too, might find the light.
Here's to a great New Year!!!
Cheers (with a cup of tea)!
Karen
Thank you so much for your good wishes. It means a lot to me that you are proud. I was so stunned to ever find myself in an addictive situation and am so grateful that through the grace of God, found my way to sobriety. Life is so darn precious, isn't it? I just worked too hard, with this surgery, etc., to throw it all away into a bottle. But there are so many silent ones out there who have not been as fortunate... I see it all the time in support group meetings. When I share my story, occassionally others contact me about their secret lives and it breaks my heart. I do everything I can to help them by sharing my expenience, strenght and hope so that they, too, might find the light.
Here's to a great New Year!!!
Cheers (with a cup of tea)!
Karen
I'm with ya! Ack, I try to pay no mind at all to those "perfects" on tv. lol... I'm too wrapped up in my own family and life to pay any mind. My family knows by now who I am and what to expect so I'm not trying to live up to anyones expectations, except my kids of course. Just want to make them happy on christmas :) You can only do what you can. and 9 times out of 10 I've learned its enough and sometimes more than expected. gosh... if that made any sense. lol... I'm with you on the resolutions. I need to get back to the thought process that "I've had weight loss surgery" hellooooo.... I'm different. have to eat differently and have to supplement etc.... need to re-visit my past and get with it so I can have a better future :) Hope everyone had a happy holiday!!!
Elizabeth M
Elizabeth M
"Never act until you have answered the question 'What happens if I do nothing?'" - Robert Brault
"Love is borne from soul to soul on the wings of words." - Rudolph Steiner
Elizabeth M 
You girls are all too much!! Ha! If we can't laugh at ourselves, who can we laugh at?
I actually rejoined Weigh****chers (don't hit me!) and hid in the back of the room...and put a clothespin in my mouth to keep me from blabbing that I had had WLS. That would be like admitting making a deal with the devil to them...anyway, I took their journal and wrote down everything I ate that week and stuck to their program except I didn't eat any "extra" points. I actually lost six pounds but more interesting was the eye-opening journal entries! I was eating SO poorly. I not only added up their silly points but I also focused on my protein grams and tried to eat denser foods. My protein counts sucked and I was eating way too many carbs. II just hadn't realized how much I had navigated away from healthy WLS eating. I did NOT buy any of their bars, puddings or shakes sold at the meeting because I just didn't want to get started on that stuff. I also did not buy any of their frozen desserts at the grocery store. I actually weaned myself off of most sugars and limited myself to a nice carb for dinner and cheese stick w/a flatabread crackers for my snack (need that crunch, ya know!). Anyway, my point is that I used their program of accountabililty and it worked. I don't know how long I'll participate but now at least I feel like I have a safety net if I need one. Does that make any sense? Weighing-in helps keep me on the beam, too. I just sit there in the meeting, feeling so darn grateful that I have had this surgery because I have a tool that they don't! It is MUCH easier for me to limit my portions than it is for "them."
OK-enough about my dirty little secret! How are you guys spending the New Years? I am going to an AA meeting tonight to see my buds and then home to sit in my easy chair and read until the ball drops (or maybe DVR it if I get too tired!)!
Happy New Year to you all and get out there and boogie!!!
Hugs,
Karen
I actually rejoined Weigh****chers (don't hit me!) and hid in the back of the room...and put a clothespin in my mouth to keep me from blabbing that I had had WLS. That would be like admitting making a deal with the devil to them...anyway, I took their journal and wrote down everything I ate that week and stuck to their program except I didn't eat any "extra" points. I actually lost six pounds but more interesting was the eye-opening journal entries! I was eating SO poorly. I not only added up their silly points but I also focused on my protein grams and tried to eat denser foods. My protein counts sucked and I was eating way too many carbs. II just hadn't realized how much I had navigated away from healthy WLS eating. I did NOT buy any of their bars, puddings or shakes sold at the meeting because I just didn't want to get started on that stuff. I also did not buy any of their frozen desserts at the grocery store. I actually weaned myself off of most sugars and limited myself to a nice carb for dinner and cheese stick w/a flatabread crackers for my snack (need that crunch, ya know!). Anyway, my point is that I used their program of accountabililty and it worked. I don't know how long I'll participate but now at least I feel like I have a safety net if I need one. Does that make any sense? Weighing-in helps keep me on the beam, too. I just sit there in the meeting, feeling so darn grateful that I have had this surgery because I have a tool that they don't! It is MUCH easier for me to limit my portions than it is for "them."
OK-enough about my dirty little secret! How are you guys spending the New Years? I am going to an AA meeting tonight to see my buds and then home to sit in my easy chair and read until the ball drops (or maybe DVR it if I get too tired!)!
Happy New Year to you all and get out there and boogie!!!
Hugs,
Karen
said perfectly. that was the point i was trying to make a few times on these boards about weigh****chers...not just our marchers boards, the point system is great and tracking the food you eat is a great way to watch what you eat, but their foods are not wls sensitive. they contain too much sugar and they are not really carb watchers per se.... but the meetings and the journaling is great! and way to go on the 6 pound loss!!!! i too am with you in regards to how differently im eating and how far away from eating like a wls patient should eat...and im hurting from it. bad vitamin levels low protein levels... too much sugar in the system etc...etc...etc... made my protein and sugar free list out today and am going to stop by the vitamin shoppe and stock up on the good stuff!!! happy new year!!!!! 
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