Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 a great phrase/slogan: compare and despair....compare your progress to someone else, and you are bound to despair, it's a set up for failure. What I do to live in the " success of WLS " I weigh infrequently, I trust the weight will go down, I trust my physical change, I focus on repetition of activity: be it walking...how many times this week; grocery shopping: how many times I pick up protein and put down junk;I read food labels, have a fat counter/protein/cal pocket book, for reference, how many times I eat low fat, low sugar protein sources; I eat and observe bodily reactions. There are many activities and behaviors that indicate a changed mentality and therefore, spell success, things I could not put into practice before surgery. The obsession of the scale and the numbers can make me feel defeated, all that I do now, All that I do differently clearly CLEARLY should make me feel I am living in the solution. That's where I want to keep the focus, difficult as that is sometimes, I want to live differently, to feel freer and to live more freely in my choices of activities, relationships, education, recreation, porfessions....so many things are now open for reflection and re-evaluation because opportunity enters the picture. Weight loss, along with the mental/emotional preparation for change can lead to tremendous opportunity. In my case, I feel I am riding a wave of opportunity. I wish everyone who wants such change, all the advantages allowed!! lennyB BPD/DS Dr. Gagner Apr 2, -76lbs, 13 weeks from waist size 52 to 42 __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 30, 2001 Report Share Posted July 30, 2001 a great phrase/slogan: compare and despair....compare your progress to someone else, and you are bound to despair, it's a set up for failure. What I do to live in the " success of WLS " I weigh infrequently, I trust the weight will go down, I trust my physical change, I focus on repetition of activity: be it walking...how many times this week; grocery shopping: how many times I pick up protein and put down junk;I read food labels, have a fat counter/protein/cal pocket book, for reference, how many times I eat low fat, low sugar protein sources; I eat and observe bodily reactions. There are many activities and behaviors that indicate a changed mentality and therefore, spell success, things I could not put into practice before surgery. The obsession of the scale and the numbers can make me feel defeated, all that I do now, All that I do differently clearly CLEARLY should make me feel I am living in the solution. That's where I want to keep the focus, difficult as that is sometimes, I want to live differently, to feel freer and to live more freely in my choices of activities, relationships, education, recreation, porfessions....so many things are now open for reflection and re-evaluation because opportunity enters the picture. Weight loss, along with the mental/emotional preparation for change can lead to tremendous opportunity. In my case, I feel I am riding a wave of opportunity. I wish everyone who wants such change, all the advantages allowed!! lennyB BPD/DS Dr. Gagner Apr 2, -76lbs, 13 weeks from waist size 52 to 42 __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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