Good Morning GOT A QUESTION
I promised I need to do more thing to keep me from forgetting where I have come from..... you know reminders of where I once was......So today I got on the scale with Dianne and we weighed...... I also fixed a healthy 1 egg vegtable omlette.... I am going to go for a walk today and hit the pool ..... I also am going to unpack my total gym...and use the damn thing...lol.....
Yesterday we started talking about diets again...I had to laugh to myself thinking 4 years ago that Gastric was my final "diet"...God how wrong was I...... The last few weeks and even the last year have been filled with Y's in the road.... alot of bad food choices and some bad not doing exersize...has made me gain a few pounds..... I am somewhat happy that my bad choices have only added on about 25 lbs but I still need a swift kick in my bucket.......
So here is my assignment to you all because i need your help....... I need inspiration as all of you do...Dianne and I are working hard to make WLS work for us and honestly have never really been with someone on a daily basis that has been through the wls trip also .... now I have no excuses....... but it would also be cool to get to know more of you and see your trials and tribulations....... So once a week I would like for you to come out of your shell and share a story with us as a board for inpiration..... I would like it to be real , from the heart and honest....... to make all of us feel that we are not alone... Maybe in doing this we can inspire newbies ,oldbies and everyone struggling or succeeding on a daily basis.
MY QUESTION TO YOU IS THIS:
WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECOLLECTION OF YOUR BEING OBESE AND RECOGNIZING IT........
WHAT EMBARRASED YOU ABOUT BEING OVERWEIGHT AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIDE IT ?
WHAT RIGHT NOW,,,, ARE YOUR WANTS TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WLS JOURNEY.........
TELL ME WHAT YOUR BIGGEST SUCCESS IN YOUR JOURNEY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN AFRAID TO SHARE BECAUSE YOU WERE SCARED......
In knowing that we are not alone and we are human will help us be who we are there is no faliure if we try..... There is no failure if we believe that we have givin life our all........
THANK S ...YOUR SMILES AND KIND THOUGHTS ARE MY INSPIRATION ALONE... EVERYTHING ELSE IS A BONUS.......RON
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MY QUESTION TO YOU IS THIS:
WHAT WAS THE FIRST RECOLLECTION OF YOUR BEING OBESE AND RECOGNIZING IT........ When I turned 50. My health started to go berserk.
WHAT EMBARRASED YOU ABOUT BEING OVERWEIGHT AND WHAT DID YOU DO TO HIDE IT ? I hid it behind layers of lose fitting clothing. Down here in SC, it is totally miserable in the summer, but I did NOT take off any of the layers, even if I was dying.
WHAT RIGHT NOW,,,, ARE YOUR WANTS TO SUCCEED IN YOUR WLS JOURNEY.........
I want to jump start my losing again and regain my love of summer. I haven't reached goal yet and I will be 2 years Oct 6. Very disappointed in myself. I seem to have the same metabolic problems I had pre op and I want to stop the cycle NOW. So far blood sugars are 109 - 112 but I want them lower. Need to cut the crap out of my diet. More protein, complex carbs, less simple carbs.
TELL ME WHAT YOUR BIGGEST SUCCESS IN YOUR JOURNEY THAT YOU HAVE BEEN AFRAID TO SHARE BECAUSE YOU WERE SCARED......
I don't have any I have been afraid to share. But my biggest to me is the ability to cross my legs again, and put the cane in the closet.
Looking forward to seeing other responses. I need incentive folks!! LOL
Tink
My first recollection of being obese and recognizing it...I've always been fat. I remember being a little girl in dance class but was so much larger than the other girls. I don't really know any other way of life than to be the fat girl.
I was embarrassed by my weight in a million ways: riding roller coasters at Carowinds (where I actually worked as a teenager), cruel teasing of the boys when I was the "heavy" cheerleader in high school, putting on a seat belt and having a roll of fat pop out over the belt, being unable to cross my legs, knowing I weighed more than my husband...I developed diversions to hide some embarrassment, wore shirts I could balloon over seatbelts, quit going to Carowinds, and cried a lot
I want to achieve...a healthy body. I have a 10 y/o who will need a kidney transplant in the near future and I want to be able to donate if I'm a match. I don't want being fat to keep my child from living.
Successes afraid to share... I'm pretty open so my husband hears them all!
on 8/12/08 11:18 am - Simpsonville, SC
Once again a great post!
1.My first recollection of being obese and recognizing it is..my mother saying that I would be pretty if I lost weight.
2 What embarrased me... not being able to wear "cute" clothes. No way to hide that.
3 What I want right now is... to be healthy and not look like a wrinkled bag of bones...seems I traded one problem for another one.
4 My biggest success...is making it this far, I am truly thankful everyday for what has been given to me, Afraid to share because, I just don't trust it.. Will it last? Can I keep the weight off? Have I done the right thing? Will I regret this when I get older? And the biggest, did I fail because I could not, or would not do it without surgery? Hmmm....lots to think about.
Kat
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