Do you ever just get plain angry?

I'm loving life, everything is good but sometimes, don't you just get so angry about all of the diligence that life now requires? I mean, sometimes i just want to be "normal"...if i even knew what normal is anymore........geez.......

I guess so much of it has become so "normal" to me now that I don't have to think about it as much.

What does make me angry is all the years I spent focused on diets that required so much planning and preparation and then didn't work.

Now my day is much more simple...

Vitamins? - check

Water? - check

Protein? - check and double check

I have so many good choices to get my protein in that this is no problem. If I feel like having salad I simply have a higher protein supplement mid morning or mid afternoon instead of a mini meal with a lower protein count. There is no counting points, or keeping up with exchanges. I know the protein count of my favorite supplements and foods so I know that most days I easily take in at least 100 grams of protein.

I went through something like that after I became diabetic. All the testing and injections and highs and lows. It can be wearing. It even had a name..."Diabetes Burnout." I eventually had to get to a place of acceptance and once there, I was never bothered by the day to day again. I guess it taught me a lot about accepting the necessary. So far, no problems with the logging my foods or counting calories, carbs, fat and protein. It is pretty much habit now. I can forsee going through something like that again but you never know.
Karen

It's not that I get angry...  but I did go through a point where I was frustrated...  as much effort as I had put into food prior to surgery, as in addictions, putting time into where and what I would eat...  planning life around food...  now guess what?  My life is even more centered around food whether I want it to be or not...  

Calorie counting
How much protein?  How many carbs?  Sugar grams? Will I dump? Is it a good alternative?  What about fat grams?  Is it worth the cheat?  Is it something that I can eat and not have to worry about getting sick?  On and on the questions go... even still today, 3 yrs (almost) postop...  It was a phase where I had to just get over my frustrations and then life went on.  But sometimes, we "revisit" that little frustration.

Karen--I really like that phrase/philosophy: Accepting the Necessary--I do beleive that will be my mantra for a while....LOL   erika