Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 PyrettaHow funny is that cartoon, and so true! How are you doing? I am trying to type here with my cat absolutley determined to use my left arm as his pillow. His tail is madly switching away here but he wont move! Grrr. Nx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Dear Pyretta Re: Rats – each to their own! I won't say any more, but I am pleased you love and adore your bubbies. I am a true believer in companion animals, what ever form they take! I would love to have a cockatoo, raise it from baby. My Ma had one, he only died a few years ago and he was well over 25, they can live longer but he fretted one weekend when my Grandmother was away and sadly passed away. Anyway, you are struggling with your emotions leading up to your op – I wouldn't expect anything different. I have to say that I did the same with my second band, the first I was so happy I was smiling being wheeled in to the theatre. I pulled the sheet up because I thought they might think me a head case grinning away at an impending operation. But I was sure it was right. I had the roller coaster of emotion with the second, and they were perhaps the ranges of emotions that everyone experiences with their bands. Oh well, I have it and I am pleased as punch. You will be too, you have come a long way, battled and fought for your turn. I am sure that a less stronger one would have given up long ago. Nx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Pyretta, Believe it or not, the bloody rats kept running through my mind's eye last night as I tried to sleep. Brown ones, white ones, teeth bared, it was awful. As Nic said, if you like them great, but personally I couldn't bare to have one near. Have you got a confirmed date for surgery? I keep saying around 8th June when we speak of you (and we do-'our star'), but others ask me but is it confirmed, so please put us all at peace, what is going on please?? Maree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 15, 2006 Report Share Posted May 15, 2006 Thanks for your words , I know it is just nerves getting to be but right now part of me just wishes they'd call and tell me to get my a$$ in there and get it over with. The other part of me is petrified that I'm going to not be able to eat any of my favourite foods ever again. I love fresh salad, and warm but barely cooked vegies, and red meat. I'm having real fears that I never will eat normally again. I know this isn't rational, but it doesn't make me any less fearful. Oh well, time to go for a walk and clear the doubts and fears again. At least I'm getting more walking in Pyretta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 I also can eat plate fulls of salad, a lamb cutlet but not a chop?? rice is easy, steak would kill me but a pork chop is fine. No bread or pastries or bun or anything with dough. It's amazing how much we can eat after the initial period and just as amazing how in my case I really don't need to. I get carried away, like today, talking about the corned beef and I could eat that, just not too much. You will be fine, think of food as the enemy that got us all to this place and has caused us all so much grief. As my son said to me in the beginning of my journey, Mum, most of the food you yearn for is only flour and water. He was right, I thought I'd miss meat pies, pizza, hamburgers, all the cake shop goodies, donuts etc. but I haven't really missed them at all and with restriction nor will you I imagine. This will be a whole new life and food will no longer be the main focus, you will reminisce as we all have today but it won't dictate your thoughts all day every day as you might imagine it would after being such an important part of your life for so long. Maree > > Pyretta, > > If you have really good teeth, you can learn to chew so well that any food will go down. I can eat anything - meat, rice, bread, raw veggies, salad - I just chew the food to a paste in my mouth and down it goes!! > > Love, > Ghyll > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 I am going with a son fettish at them moment in the car- " The trouble with love " , love it, and good old Rod at home. Since you left Cheryl, I found a great favourites CD of Rod's, just love that sexy old rocker. Then of course we have the juke box which goes 24/7. I am a bit of a music freak and what's more I love to sing. Of course I can't but I turn it up loud and then I sound okay in my own ears. What a maniac, batten the hatches!! M. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Hear hear Maree- Pyretta, you are a legend- and nary a whimper of complaint, always helpful etc.. You are one strong and amazing woman. (Ashbury) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Maree, Well I can think of other words to dicribe me. Pig headed, stubborn, scared and weak willed all come to mind. The only thing that kept me on the straight and narrow for do long was the fear of people like you and the others that have supported me, thinking I was a failure. I didn't want my new friends to loose faith in me. What others have thought of me has always been more important than what I have thought of myself. Once I got past that, and learned that I am important enough to do this for me, then it was the fear of eating again that kept me on the Opti. You see I might seem strong but really everything I do in my life is ruled by fear. It is something that I am trying to change and I finally feel in control enough to start to change so hopefully even I'll like the person I'm becoming. Gee, that was deep. Sorry for laying that on you all, it's just been one of those days of self exploration and growth. Pyretta Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 16, 2006 Report Share Posted May 16, 2006 Good heavens Pyretta, I think I can speak for all of us when I say each of us has failed the diet merrygoround and in spite of that each of us still are worthy of holding our head up high. I am so proud of you and your amazing success but even had you tried and failed I would still have been happy that you tried. We may have different silhouettes, personalities and profiles but we are one and the same. We are people who have suffered an eating disorder and have tried every way we can to overcome. Aren't we all a success, including yourself, that we at least tried? Never feel that you let us down, past or future, or that we judge you, We are one, we are family!!! Maree Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 17, 2006 Report Share Posted May 17, 2006 Hi Pyretta, Any time, any time..... glad I could get you out of your navel-gazing with some of my home-made absurdity. I have a problem with a little too much introspection sometimes, especially at the moment, and the riduculous gets me through. Just take the compliments for what they are, as hard as it can be to accept them. I get banded on the 6th of June, and I have had my freak-outs too, but I'm currently into putting it away for another time (I'm expert at denial). I'm sure it's harder for you, seeing as you still don't have a definite date, just keep getting vague time periods. The waiting must be excruciating. Thanks for your guidance, and keep belly-laughing, it burns more calories- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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