What Have You Done Today to Make You Feel Proud?

I havn't done much outside today (saving all that for the weekend and the beautiful weather we're supposed to have!! YAY!!) But I still have a proud. I didnt' procrastinate on my homework!! lol I had to take an online science test, and I decided to buckle down and do it while the munchkin was as school. Took me almost 3 hours, but got it done! Don't know how I did yet, but at least I can cross that off my long to-do list! 

Well look at you getting all mature on us right before our very eyes!  I hope you are having fun working out in your yard and that your seeds are sprouting by now.  We're getting rain all day tomorrow so I get a break.    I NEED a break!

I hope you get an .

Mary 

So funny that you were talking about concreting your yard and painting it green...I have been threatening to do that for years!!!  But I would "plant" fabric flowers in so I would have blooms all year!

Funny....

Cindy

What's really funny is that I was going to tell Heather that instead of drawing flowers, I was going to "plant" silk peonies.  Brilliant minds thinks alike!

Hey, I just read your profile and I loved the way you phrased this, that your desire to be thin had not yet overcome your desire for food.  Have you gotten passed it yet?

Mary

Mary,

That is sooo funny that you are thinking the same way!!  I never would have thought someone else would be thinking that! 

As far as my weight loss, I have been working harder at it then I ever have.  I faithfully go to WW and am doing a lot better.  I think part of it has been a way to fill myself because of feeling lonely.  I hadn't found a way to fill my life since my daughter went to college, but I am beginning to find other fun things for me to do.  Thanks for asking.

As far as my wishes for surgery, I go back anf forth.  If I am honest with myself, I am not consistently working the WW program, when I do I lose 2-3 pounds a week.  When I don't stay on my program, I gain.  So I am really the issue....And I want to be able to do this on my own, totally because I know I can do it, I think I haven't wanted it badly enough until now.

Talk to you soon,
Cindy

Emotional eating...what a bummer!  But the first step to fixing that is realizing that it is the core of your problem.  For me, emotional eating was a comfort that took the place of how much I disliked myself for being fat.  Once I was able to forgive myself for gaining the weight, then I was able to love myself enough to do the hard work it would take to get smaller and healthy. 

The way I feel about surgery is that if you don't fix these emotional issues before you have it, then you are just someone with emotional issues who had surgery, still carrying the same baggage.  I have a lot of friends who have had the surgery and they still struggle to lose weight because once the honeymoon period is over, they are just like me, only they haven't worked through the emotional issues.  But then once you have worked through these issues, maybe you won't need the surgery! 

Mary 

You are sooo right, and I think that is why I am not sure.  One minute I think it is ok, then I think if I really did follow my program I would be able to do this on my own.  I know I would still have to work at it, but I have to do the same thing with or without surgery....

Thanks for the feedback without flaming!!!

Girl, there ain't no flaming around here, unless it's someone from another board pushing their surgery.  A lot of people here have decided not to have the surgery and have done it on their own....with much praying....and holding on by the skin of their teeth!  I've lost 129 1/2 pounds and my plastic surgeon cut off 25 so if I can do it, anyone can.  If you are not miserably suffering from a comorbitity, then give yourself some time and see what you can summon from deep within your heart and you just might end up wanting to be thin more than you want food.     But like I always say, you have to want this more than you want your next breath.  This is the rest of your life we are talking about so you can't let your emotions get in the way of what will make you happy.  Food is for nutrition...not to make you feel better.  Maybe you could try Babs trick and buy an incentive pair of pants to fit into.  Whenever you want to eat...go put those pants on instead!

Mary 

Hi There, Cindy! welcome!!!! 

I wish I could take 100% credit for the green concrete idea. I swear to all that is Holy: a guy actually did that very thing in his front yard right here in my town. In his FRONT YARD, no less!

At the time, I laughed at him. Now? i think he is the most brilliant man that ever walked the earth!

I wish I had taken pictures; it's a regret i have. The next guy who moved into his house had it all torn out. Wuss!

GET OUT!!!!  As Elaine from Seinfeld would say....I would have loved to see that.  I have seen people around here using silk flowers, that is a little weird.  But I hate maintaining my yard.

Thanks for the welcome
Cindy