I took a nasty fall off my bicycle last week, and no I was not in motion at the time. Anyways, it took about 4 days to actually catch up to my brain and then I got the pain, and more pain, and moving pain. To make this verrry long story short, one trip to the ER with a possible leaking spleen, negative, to the Dr. the next day, negative for broken ribs, I finally ended up with pain medicine prescriptions and a script for 12 days of SoluMedrol. Never mind the pain meds...give me Medrol. First of all it makes my joints feel so much better for a while and it works totally opposite for me than it does for most people....I LOSE WEIGHT ON IT!!! I have already lost about 7 pounds and honestly it does feel good. Now I know it will be short lived but for a few short days I feel so much better.
A few people have been attempting to get me to not have surgery. A few of these people like me fat because they too are fat and unhappy. Some of these people need surgery also but they will be, and are, the first ones to look me in the face and say, Oh Judy, You have REALLY put on the weight! I noticed it. Are you kidding me? I do not think I would say that to anyone's face if it were true unless they asked me seriously! It hurt my feelings so bad. She will never know that but it did. This is the type of person who would walk laps with us and have to sit and wanted us to sit with her to keep her company. Well, having just met her I did but more times than not she sat and talked so long that it was time to leave. We found ourselves getting there early to get our workout in.
A few people that I have tried to help in the past by inviting them to weight watchers and offering to help them have all of a sudden made a decision to join and they are really going to do it....did I want to join again with them. Thanks but no....I know that program works. I should be a spokesperson for them. I believe in them. But like gastric surgery, it is me that has to put the work in. They offer me the program, my Dr. offered me gastric sleeve. Weight Watchers offers the tools, so does my Dr. WW offers support meetings, my Dr. and his ENTIRE staff, love you Kelli, are pretty much at my beck and call. So, the program is different but the end result is my choice.....I have to do the work, I have to motivate myself.
So am I far off base? I do not think so. I am scared that I will not succeed. I am afraid that I won't know how to do it...or I won't want to take the time to learn how to cook for myself and my family. I have all these fears....just like I did on weight watchers. I would love to hear from some of you out there that have already had the sleeve done and how much weight you lost from beginning to present. Is it possible to lose almost a hundred pounds with the sleeve as long as you do the work?
Thanks for reading. Enjoy this unbelievable hot, humid 100 degree day...well in Ohio anyway.
Judy, there will always be that will try to talk you out of it...you know what's right for you. Hey, I've lost weight many-a-times but the problem was I couldn't keep it off by myself and I had just given up. I threw in the towel! I was done trying and that's when the sleeve came up and then my husband got on board and really supported me...he knew how hard I'd worked at it without any help and I think he just couldn't stand seeing me so depressed.
ReplyDeleteYou know I'm not far out but at almost 3 months out, I've lost 55 lbs. That's more than my 35% goal for 3 months out which is another 2 weeks away. It's so worth the surgery and the hard times in the beginning.