Patience and I Don't Have Much in Common

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: