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Patience and I Don't Have Much in Common

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sandradee0124

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I expect to wake up every morning feeling thinner. I never do, but I expect to!

 

I expect to work out hard at the gym and walk out of there feeling wonderfully fit and look put together. I never do, but I expect to.

 

I expect to put on pants/skirts every day and have them be so big they need safety pins to keep them on. Sometimes this happens but not always.

 

I have very high expectations for myself after this surgery. I'm not meeting them, and instead of learning some amount of patience to deal with the fact that its only been 7 weeks and I'm not going to look like Cindy Crawford yet, I get frustrated and this affects my eating, sleeping and workouts.

 

I wish I could take a pill and sleep for a year, wake up 100 lbs lighter and move on my way. I know it took time to get this heavy, but I lack the patience to wait for the time to not be this heavy. I don't mind the workouts or the cooking or the planning, I just want INSTANT RESULTS every day, every way.

 

Thinking a discussion with the therapist is in order on this one.

 

I'm not really down, I just want to buy some patience or better yet trade in a couple dozen pounds for some patience??? :rolleyes2:

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If I go back and look at my first few weeks of blogs after surgery, there is SO much talk of needing patience. That is so normal. I'm almost 6 months in and over 55 lbs down and I still get impatient. Some days I really feel like I've come so far and other days, I need to psych myself up because I'm still fat and have so far to go.

That is why we are all here for each other. It takes time and we will get through it together!!

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DITO!!!

HAving high expectations can be a bitch!

I keep telling myself that " it took me 10 years to gain 100 lbs, i cant expect to loose it in 1 year"

I have stopped weighing myself weekly, now i am doing it every 2 weeks.. i dont care so much about #'s on the scale as i do about clothes fitting me right and getting into a size 14 jean someday.

good luck and chin up!

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