What are you eating/doing today? Sigh...Monday
Love the tat. What is it's meaning (to you)?
RNY Gastric Bypass 1-8-08 350/327/200 (HW/SW/CW). I spend most of my time playing with my food over at Bariatric Foodie - check me out!
Ferdinand was a bull who liked to sit quietly under his favorite tree and smell the flowers. He had a favorite spot out in the pasture under a cork tree.
As the years went by Ferdinand grew and grew until he was very big and strong. All the other bulls who had grown up with him in the same pasture would fight each other all day. They would butt each other and stick each other with their horns.
One day the matadors came to pick the roughest bull to fight in the bull fights in Madrid. All the other bulls ran around snorting and butting so the men would think that they were very very strong and fierce. Ferdinand knew that they wouldn't pick him and he didn't care.
So he went out to his favorite cork tree to sit down, and accidentally sat on a bumble bee, who of course, stung him. He ran around puffing and snorting, butting and pawing the ground as if he were crazy.
The matadors saw him and they all shouted with joy. Just the one for the bull fights in Madrid!
They called him Ferdinand the Fierce and all of the Banderilleros were afraid of him and the Picadores were afraid of him and the Matador was scared stiff. When he got to the middle of the ring he saw the flowers in all the lovely ladies' hair and he just sat down quietly and smelled. He wouldn't fight and be fierce no matter what they did.
So they had to take Ferdinand home. "And for all I know he is sitting there still, under his favorite cork tree, smelling the flowers just quietly. He is very happy."
Ferdinand reminds me to do what makes me happy, and to not give into the pressure of what others think I should be...no matter what I look like or what I am. It is a beautiful story that I have remembered since the first time I read it as a kid.
Long-term post-ops with regain struggles, click here to see some steps for getting back on track (without the 5-day pouch fad or liquid diet): http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/bananafish711/blog/2013/04/05/don-t-panic--believe-and-you-will-succeed-/
Always cooking at www.neensnotes.com!
Need a pick-me-up? Read this: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/it-will-be-sunny-one-day.html
Neen, I'm so glad you're around again. You inspire me.
RNY Gastric Bypass 1-8-08 350/327/200 (HW/SW/CW). I spend most of my time playing with my food over at Bariatric Foodie - check me out!
It is lovely to be back. I'd forgotten how supportive this community is and I'm glad I started reading/posting again.
Long-term post-ops with regain struggles, click here to see some steps for getting back on track (without the 5-day pouch fad or liquid diet): http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/bananafish711/blog/2013/04/05/don-t-panic--believe-and-you-will-succeed-/
Always cooking at www.neensnotes.com!
Need a pick-me-up? Read this: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/it-will-be-sunny-one-day.html
Long-term post-ops with regain struggles, click here to see some steps for getting back on track (without the 5-day pouch fad or liquid diet): http://www.obesityhelp.com/member/bananafish711/blog/2013/04/05/don-t-panic--believe-and-you-will-succeed-/
Always cooking at www.neensnotes.com!
Need a pick-me-up? Read this: http://www.lettersofnote.com/2009/10/it-will-be-sunny-one-day.html
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Highest weight: 269. Surgery weight: 233. Goal weight: 144, and then we'll see..
