Well meaning downers? Small rant...
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Seriously, I have a lot of goals, some that seem like 'la-la land' right now.. but hey, at this point, the sky's the limit.
At some point, once I reach goal.. I'm going to be saying.. 'What next?" I don't want to be satisfied with 'better than I am now'. After years of disability, over 2 of which was bedfast... if my health comes back like the docs seem to think it will???? I could SERIOUSLY see myself becoming one of these exercise addicts like NotDave and CarbonBlob talk about...
I added a new goal to my goal list.... to run a 5k, 10k, or marathon.... yep--- 'la-la land' dream... but... who's to say what my limits are? Me and God... that's it.
Thanks again,
Dale
wow - you sound as ambitious as I was before my surgery, Dale .. and I wish you the best in getting there ..
I have to confess now I wish I had a "reality check" before my surgery, though (my surgeon did not require a pre-op psych exam, btw, which I now regret) .. One of the purposes of the pre-op exam is to try to determine whether the surgical candidate has unrealistic expectations ..
I'm down 200+ lbs., but looks like, plastics excepting, Im going to be stuck in the high 250s, which is still technically "obese" (I'm 6'1") and I constantly beat myself up over that fact .. In fact, I used to poke fun of another foreign surgery patient who also never got below that weight category (he claims his surgeon offered to re-do his surgery, but that he was "happy" where he was at - yeah right) .. and now I find myself in that same exact stiuation (paybacks are a biach, karma, and all that stuff, right?) I don't want to start a "which surgery is best" debate here, but I was basically told when looking around that my type of surgery was the most fool-proof of those out there, which I took to be good, b/c there is no bigger fool than me when it comes to food, I admit .. &:-/) So here the fool sits, taking the good with the bad, I guess .. I'm no longer SO, but still O .. No longer diabetic or have sleep apnea, but still have sky high b.p. and elephant feet and ankles from lymphedema due to the permanent damage from the SO over the many years ... My body mass and measurememts are a lot smaller (42" waist vs. 61"+ waist , 16" neck vs. 21" neck) but have now still 30% body fat and a ton of loose skin flapping and slapping around .. not to mention a huge "manmons" flap now "down there" .. B/c of all this (or in spite of it), I guess I'm still alone .. eat alone, live alone, shop alone .. -- have we started having fun yet? Botom line: the surgery may not (and probably won't) cure all your ills, physically and/or socially, and the time to be honest about that with yourself the sooner the better .. else you may be headed for some big downers down the road later ..
