Thoughts..

I put this on my blog but thought i would share it here as well...

I have been reading my book Thin commandments and it started me thinking ..Why do you think our attitudes changes?.. We all go into surgery prepared to do what ever it takes, and go to what ever length it takes to get healthy, or we would not have had wls... but something in our behaviour changes, why do we go from being so motivated to being so resistant?.. We all know what to eat and what we shouldn't... Why is it we allow foods we know make us want more to be eaten, even when we know it will take days of suffering with cravings after we try to stop them again?.. Food is not smart so why do we give it so much power? Im an adult i know i cant have everything i want, so why is it i try to tell myself but " I deserve it, or "its ok because everyone else is eating it" or " i don't want to miss out".. When i stopped and really thought about this kind of thinking i was shocked to discover these are the same kind of thoughts that I tried to tell my kids was not ok when they were having a tantrum to get what they wanted in a store or something they wanted because friends have it... Yet here i am doing the same thing about food .... it was quite revealing

 

I think in the beginning we want to do everything possible to lose the weight and be "normal".  When we reach this "normal" we start to test the waters.  What makes us dump and what makes us gain.  In the beginning, we eat something that we shouldn't and we don't pay the price, heck, we might even lose because of it.  Now our guard is down.  A few years down the road and suddenly everything that we should not eat is making us gain.  By this time we are floundering and don't know where to begin to get control of the situation.  What happens, we all come back to OH looking for support and help to get the regain off.  I did not take the full advantage of my WLS the first time and paid the price.  I do not plan on making the same mistake twice with God's help.  Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me.

 Thank you for sharing