MUSINGS ON MAINTENANCE
So, I've been eating. Yet I haven't gained weight. What's up with that? As some of you know by now, I live on a need-to-know basis of understanding - if I don't get it, I don't do it well. If I don't understand how a toilet flushes, I'm gonna have a damned difficult time flushing the thing. I gotta make sense of success before I can be successful. So, I've been eating yet I have (by the Grace of God) maintained my weight loss, up a few pounds here, then it's gone in a day or two. I've stayed in the mid-140s for the past two years. I truly think it's a matter of knowing what your own reserve of personal energy is and then Giving It All Away in balanced increments - house, kids, significant other, self, job/career, community, miscellaneous. Here's my understanding of what I'm doing "right" -- before surgery, I could barely walk - literally, at 360 lbs. I was only able to take a few steps before I had to sit down and catch my breath. No matter the store of personal energy, there's not much that can be done with it if you can't even move from one room to another. It was all I could do to manage folding the clothes that, of course, someone had to bring to me because Lord Knows I couldn't manage bending over to dig them out of the dryer, let alone hoisting the hamper to the sofa. This is no longer the case. So, now that I am able to move - and live - I have become very connected with what is meaningful to me, and I spend my days divying out my reserve of personal energy to those things: house, kids, husband, self, career, community and, yes, miscellaneous. This leaves me very little time to obssess about food! I eat - yes, I eat - but I'm not obssessing about eating (for the most part); I am reserving the time and energy it took to obssess about food for the people, places, and things that mean the most to me. I am living Passionately, even in the face of the boring routine of everydayness; I am living Truthfully, holding myself to a new standard of relating to Self and Others. This is the true TOOL for success, my friends. Know what you're made of and Give Yourself Away!! Hope this makes sense, would love to get a good thread going on this. We're much too quiet. Hugs, Maureen
Hi Maureen,
im currently in the process of getting my check list completed to have bariatric surgery with Dr. Aranow! I also attened the meeting at Middlesex 2 weeks ago and was truely inspired and amazed with all your stories! your like a breath of fresh air to me 
thanks for being there for all of us!
Marlena
thanks for being there for all of us!
Marlena 
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