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"We cannot create self-love and a loving body image by “hating ourselves into it” – with a forced diet, lifeless exercise and hurtful thoughts."
This was a status shared on Facebook by Marc David, and I could not agree more.
I spent years hating my body, and thus myself, feeling like a failure in everything in my life by extension. I would loose weight through deprivation and then when I could no longer deprive myself, or when something would trigger those self hatred
A few days ago, I wrote about someone entering my life. After being divorced for more then 25 years, and the last significant relationship I was in was more then 5 years ago... I am making myself crazy with second guessing myself. You may be wondering what this has to do with obesity or WLS. For me I think it has a lot to do with it. Obesity for me was more then just over eating. It was a way to keep other people away, at arm's length so to speak. I call it hiding in a mountain of fat.
In
Yesturday morning I woke up and my left foot was numb. I didn't think anything about it. It happens, right? You sleep kinda funny, once you get up and moving you get that pins and needles feeling going on right? Nope. Didn't happen.
At first I didn't worry about it. I did my thing for the day, noticing that my foot would not work right. I couldn't just lift my foot, I could lift my leg but not my foot. The numbness just would not go away.
So after talking with my daughter and my
Good things come to those who wait...
I have been alone along time, and before my surgery I had resigned myself to spending what was left of my life alone. Throughout my 50 years I had a few relationships and they just never seemed to work out. I have to admit the fault lay more with me then with them. Because of where I was I attracted and chose men who were emotionally withdrawn. After my last relationship I took a good long look at what I had contributed to the demise of the relationship.