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Hey Gang,

I'm curious what you feel are your top struggles since you have had your surgery.

If you have not had surgery that's fine you can also tell me what your top struggles are prior to surgery.

The reason I'm asking is this question is my "Life Coach" asked me this very question in our session the other night and it got me to wondering if we all share the same struggles or do we each have our own speical set of struggles.

Here are mine...

1. Exercise-desire to do it, but not motivated to it- Solution commited to a 12 week program with the wonderful members of OH that will begin next Sat. I'm totally pumped

2. Clothes-I still don't know how to dress my new body. I still gravitate towards the bigger clothes even though I know I can't wear them. Ideal solution hire a Stylist to dress me *LOL*

3. Dating- for me this is the biggest struggle. I dated so many duds in my former body, I'm scared I'll still make the same mistakes. Solution-buck up and put myself out there.

Okay these are mine, let me know if these are similar to yours. If you have more that's fine.

~CoachCher~

http://divinetransformation.blogspot.com/

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Struggles:

1. consistently exercising without overdoing it.

2. knowing what I really look like (I think I have no idea). I go from thinking I look fairly good to thinking how huge I still am. I have no idea how people see me and I find I am a little reluctant to give up the fat girl persona.

3. learning what fashion looks good on this new body (fun, but weird)

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1. Changing my MIND to go along with my band! The band is only as good as you THINK it is and I have had alot of problems in that area. If you are not careful you can be negative and put the weight right back on!

2.Developing a work out routine that is interesting enough that I want to stick with it..I get bored easy.

3. Preparing meals for myself,before my band I ate out all the time..boy did that change!

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Struggles:

1. Staying focused on the program. I do well when I don't have a busy week. I need to eat better when dining out and get those workouts in no matter what.

2. Lack of confidence. I've lost over 50 pounds and just starting to gain more confidence. I ended a long term relationship just before surgery and am ready to date again. Don't want to kiss any more toads!!! I need to know that I deserve better than what I settled for.

3. Boredom. I was banded in July. The excitement is wearing off and I'm now in the day to day of this band. It's hard to always eat right, go to the gym, get your Protein in. I don't want to fall back into bad habits.

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Your struggles are identical to mine:

1. definitely exercise

2. buying new clothes, liking the new styles, and knowing what size to get.

3. whoops, don't have the dating problem, lol, been married 25 years.

I guess we all have a lot of the same and I know I've got to get over this exercise phobia soon.

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