WLS Success-through Powerful Positive Attitudes
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Topic: RE: OMG summer is coming
Things are going very good Molly just working hard and trying to live right. How are you?
Topic: RE: OMG summer is coming
Hello there dear!! Good to see you post! How are you? Your new picture looks wonderful! Hope all is well with you.
HW 611 Pre-opW 580 LW 302 GW 238
Topic: RE: needing info.....
I just came back from Mexico where I wore a two piece bathing suit and loved it! I am still 208 so maybe it shocked some people but F it! lol
I think in some ways it is a matter of making peace with your body and feeling/ moving well. I have found with yoga I really connect my body and mind. The various yoga practices I do connect me with my body and allow me to be thankful for all of the lovely positions I can get into...
OH and yes I have matching sarongs which I put on right out of the pool!!! lol
and cool cowboy hats, cool sandals, cool earrings - all of it takes the focus to the total look :)
I think in some ways it is a matter of making peace with your body and feeling/ moving well. I have found with yoga I really connect my body and mind. The various yoga practices I do connect me with my body and allow me to be thankful for all of the lovely positions I can get into...
OH and yes I have matching sarongs which I put on right out of the pool!!! lol
and cool cowboy hats, cool sandals, cool earrings - all of it takes the focus to the total look :)
Topic: RE: Buyer's Remorse
Well I guess everyone may describe the "Buyer's remorse" a bit differently.
As Yvonne can testify to - I had serious "mental/emotional" issues the first few months after my surgery. I totally regretted doing the surgery. I felt totally unlike "myself" - changed if you will. I even smell different! Its very weird and I regretted it immensely. I felt like I took my healthy body that God/Nature had constructed and altered it in a way that could potentially be harmful for me. At that time, I had the newbie problems of drinking and eating. But I really never threw up until I was 6 weeks out - so I probably was not the sickest. It was more in my mind. These feeling continued strongly for a few months.
I am now about 9 months out and many days I wonder if I have even had the surgery as I can eat quite a bit at times! But I have more or less accepted the fact that it is too late to undo the surgery and I have to live for today. Dont look backwards and dont look forwards. Now I am thinking if I went through all of this and I do not get to my goal - I will be mega pissed....lol (I have another 57 to go!) . Overall I am happier with my body now that I am 86 pounds lighter (66 since surgery) but mentally I can not dwell on the actual physical changes to my anatomy.
As Yvonne can testify to - I had serious "mental/emotional" issues the first few months after my surgery. I totally regretted doing the surgery. I felt totally unlike "myself" - changed if you will. I even smell different! Its very weird and I regretted it immensely. I felt like I took my healthy body that God/Nature had constructed and altered it in a way that could potentially be harmful for me. At that time, I had the newbie problems of drinking and eating. But I really never threw up until I was 6 weeks out - so I probably was not the sickest. It was more in my mind. These feeling continued strongly for a few months.
I am now about 9 months out and many days I wonder if I have even had the surgery as I can eat quite a bit at times! But I have more or less accepted the fact that it is too late to undo the surgery and I have to live for today. Dont look backwards and dont look forwards. Now I am thinking if I went through all of this and I do not get to my goal - I will be mega pissed....lol (I have another 57 to go!) . Overall I am happier with my body now that I am 86 pounds lighter (66 since surgery) but mentally I can not dwell on the actual physical changes to my anatomy.
Topic: RE: Help!!!
I am fighting with myself daily so I dont slide. It seems it is a muffin here a cadberry egg there - nauseaus you think I would never do it again - but yet I do!
I am only 9 months out and my weight loss has been slow! which is depressing. I need to get back to the basics of just protein etc. But then I feel so restricted I just bust out and totally mess it up! I also find the support groups are full of new people and I am probably a negative side of the story!! So I havent gone very often. I havent stopped working out - I need it for my sanity...
Just wish I could pull my stuff together... :(
I am only 9 months out and my weight loss has been slow! which is depressing. I need to get back to the basics of just protein etc. But then I feel so restricted I just bust out and totally mess it up! I also find the support groups are full of new people and I am probably a negative side of the story!! So I havent gone very often. I havent stopped working out - I need it for my sanity...
Just wish I could pull my stuff together... :(
Topic: RE: OMG summer is coming
Have you done any weight training? I have been diligent about it - and I think it is helping somewhat anyway. You have worked so hard - stop being hard on yourself!
If you want something bad enough - god will open a door to allow it to happen...:)
If you want something bad enough - god will open a door to allow it to happen...:)
Topic: RE: OMG summer is coming
Hello,
I know it is hard to be positive about the folds of excess skin. So I copied an inspiration that you should practice and embrace so you can move forward--see below. I have several friends who have found mates that love them with the excess skin. I hope this helps and congrats on reacing goal weight!!
Weight Loss Surgery Support:
Daily Inspiration for March 4, 2011
I know it is hard to be positive about the folds of excess skin. So I copied an inspiration that you should practice and embrace so you can move forward--see below. I have several friends who have found mates that love them with the excess skin. I hope this helps and congrats on reacing goal weight!!
Weight Loss Surgery Support:
Daily Inspiration for March 4, 2011
See yourself in a positive light.
Shar-pei dogs have luxurious folds of soft skin. They're really cute. After WLS, people develop folds of skin as they lose weight, but most don't find those folds cute. To tolerate the folds from an emotional standpoint, it's important to look at things from a kinder perspective.
Use positive affirmations and self talk to help you accept (and even admire) your new appearance. After all, you're not morbidly obese anymore. Your health is improved. And you have energy and abilities that used to be out of reach. The positive benefits beat the negatives by far--if you look at your situation with nonjudgmental eyes.
Action for the day: When you look in the mirror today, smile and pick out something you like about the way you look. Don't leave the mirror until you think and feel something positive.
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HW 611 Pre-opW 580 LW 302 GW 238
Topic: OMG summer is coming
So last year I was just in the mid 2's during Summer but this year I am at my goal weight and can wear size 9 great right yeah but the extra skin is a nightmare. i went shopping today for some summer clothes because we I don't have any that fit. OMG everything has arms out dress tops all arms out. My arms are not only big and lose but it is sagging on the arm because I have lost the fat just stretched skin. and swimming I don't even know what to do. My daughter and I go every summer it's like our thing to swim but I can not be seen in a swim suit first my breast are deflated and gone. My inner thighs have the same sag appearance and forget the stomach wow. I wish I could afford plastic surgery but I can not and believe me I have calculated and recalculate to try to afford it but it's not in the budget. My job pays for nothing cosmetic and all of this would be cosmetic because I have no physical aliments just embarrassment. The journey of weight loss is never ending I expected some but not like what I have. I look great in clothes but out omg no way. I am even shying away from dating because I fear getting to the intimate stage. I know we can be our own worst enemy but I know it looks bad my doctor was even shocked.
I would not want to go back to over three hundred pounds but I hate being a skinny girl with fat girl residue. Just my rant I saw so many cute clothes today but I could not buy any. Anything I wear has to skillfully hide my problem areas. I guess I still wish I could be normal.
I would not want to go back to over three hundred pounds but I hate being a skinny girl with fat girl residue. Just my rant I saw so many cute clothes today but I could not buy any. Anything I wear has to skillfully hide my problem areas. I guess I still wish I could be normal.
