Well, here we are in a new year and new decade. My kids were a little confused by all the fuss, as they woke up and everything seemed pretty much the same as yesterday.
I was paging through this week's People magazine this morning, with the usual New Year's Half Their Size! - without pills or surgery! feature. I truly admire what the people in the magazine have accomplished. It's huge, and it's something I have not been able to maintain in my life.
But it's amazing to me how much people consider surgery to be a copout, or the easy way out. Anyone who's ever gone through the battery of doctor's appointments, tests and insurance company hoops, and then faced general anesthesia, recovery, weeks of liquids and mushies and a whole new lifestyle knows the surgery route is no walk in the park.
Bottom line: I would love to have been one of the people who lost a lot of weight and kept it off through sheer willpower and discipline. I've lost 75 pounds once and 50 pounds once and gained it all back plus some bonus pounds. It took some courage to admit to myself that I can't do this alone. I don't feel like I'm taking the easy way out. I feel like I'm taking the only way out.
AMEN!
ReplyDeleteOh yeah-- I am there with you sister. The worst part is I am scared I will fail and this is my last chance... what else is there except the last resort?
ReplyDeleteI must stay away from that kind of negative thinking-- there is no reason to think I will fail. This is a fairly proven method for weight loss... it just takes the work to follow it, but if we've done it before, we can do it again, and this time with much more hope that the weight will come off and STAY off.
I have to agree with you - when all else fails this is the route to go - and look, it's finally working. Who's to say we didn't do the right thing when we now feel fantastic and are helping ourselves the only way we know how. Pooh to those people who think it's the easy way out. How little they know.
ReplyDeleteAmen, sista!! I have also lost large amounts "on my own" to only gain them back with some bonus lbs to boot. Sooooo frustrating. I can honestly say though that at one point in my life I thought that surgery was the easy way out. Could I have been any more wrong? If there was any other way to get this weight off and keep it off I'd be all for it. Unfortunately that hasn't been my journey. I'm just looking forward to getting banded and getting this show on the road!!
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Kristin,
ReplyDeleteI'm working in chronological order to catch up on your blog. It feels wonderful to know that other people are in my same boat (lose, gain, lose, gain). I often feel like such a failure. You all give me hope.