With the Weight, So Too Do the Chains Drop

Well here we are. I have survived the first month of my gastric sleeve. Yesterday marked the one month date since I surrendered my stomach to the great nation of Mexico.

 

I can’t say it’s been a completely smooth ride, I’ve had my moments of restriction pain, nausea and frustration… and the three week stall threatened to crush my spirit plateauing me for a good 8 days, but at the end of my first month, I can say I have lost 16 lbs.

 

16 lbs man. That’s nothing to sneeze at. I have read many blogs and posts where people are light years ahead of me on the losing scale and for a short time I allowed that to frustrate me. Then I remembered one great fact.

 

The power of the law of attraction. What I ask the universe for, I get. Always.

 

It does not always seem like things are working the way they should but in the end I get the result I have asked of the universe… this rate of weight loss (which I may find slows further) is aiding me to help my skin retract – which is what I am asking for… no loose skin, no loose skin, no loose skin.

 

So let’s step back to the plateau. It was pretty hard on my nerves, and I think I allowed it to affect me physically because I started having some digestive problems as well, after all had been fairly smooth sailing for the first couple of weeks. I decided one day to sit down and think about the things that I want.. and the things I have wanted, over the last few years…

 

I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape

I wanted my husband to stop drinking and being abusive to me

I wished I owned my own home

I desperately wanted to have a baby, having fought infertility for 6 long years

 

I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape

I wanted my husband to stop drinking and being abusive to me

I wished I owned my own home

 

I wanted to lose the weight and get back into shape

 

 

BUT... I’m on a stall.

 

 

 

Everyday I walk up the nature trail beside my office building at lunch time, or behind my home – and I feel the power. I feel myself walking away from all my misery of the past, all my heartache and disappointment…. The chains drop from me as I go. Pretty soon, it will turn into a run, and once I start running…