Tuesday, August 10, 2010
I am human.... Perfectly flawed.
I guess I need to tell people what I believe... since an uninformed person seems to want to beat up on everybody. It's fairly simple really.... I believe I am beautiful, no matter thick or thin, I believe i can lose weight with or without my lapband... my lapband just keeps me on track and doesn't let me overdo it, I believe in God and that he is helping me do everything I put my mind to do, I believe that the support that I get from my lapband blog community is irreplaceable... Why? You ask. Not because you tell me it will be alright, not because you tell me I can do it, not because you tell me chocolate is not my enemy, not because you think I am inspirational, not because you condone my mistakes and missteps, but because you do all that... truly understanding where I am in my thought process, where I am in my journey, and where I am overcoming my addiction... because you are me. And this is about you not just me. When I make my food choices, I don't always make the right ones... I am human. I love cake, cookies, chocolate but I lost 74 pounds so far because most of the time being human is no longer a handicap for me... It is a blessing. There is no bad food and good food, and I am not a bad girl if I eat a brownie. I am a flawed human being and my beauty is in my imperfections. This is my life now... I am not on a diet and never claimed to be. I make the right choices most of the time and am now 150% more active. I am no longer a diabetic, my blood pressure and cholestrial are in normal range and I enjoy life more than I have in years... When I enjoy life, I celebrate my band because my band gave me my life back. With my band, I am a superhero... I can survive all measure of baked goods, and gooey treats. I do not try to trick my band... I do not overeat... and I do not binge in anyway. I do not believe that I am wasting my band. I do not take days off from having a band, because It is not possible. When someone says that they are taking days off from counting calories that doesn't mean that they are taking a day of from having a band... It is just talk, blog stuff, exaggerations which add to the entertainment value of our story... We are not supposed to count calories, it is just our way of informing ourselves about the choices we make. This uninformed person... who many of you have been harrassed by... doesn't know what it's like to have a lapband... but they do know what it's like to have a soapbox. Having a band is a way of life... not a diet. My success although different from non-bandsters, also comes from alot of hard work. I earned every pound I lost... my loss may have come easier today than my other losses in the past but the combination of my band and my knowledge about how to lose weight from years of losing weight... I know what works, we all do. Our bodies are all different... Women struggle to lose weight more that men do... that is a proven fact. My band is a helpful tool to help me lose weight and keep it off. It is not a magic wand. It doesn't lose the weight for me. I did not take the easy way out... because there is no easy way out. I can tell you if there was an easy way out, I would have found it... I did spend years looking.
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My surgeon told me that getting the band is not an easy way to lose weight - it's a different kind of hard. I think that sums it up nicely.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry that someone is bagging on you and getting on their soapbox with you.
ReplyDeleteI fully agree with what you said. I don't rock a band, but from all of the blogs of bandsters I read, there is no way I would ever think that a band is an easy way out.
Any long term weight loss and management program is hard as hell. We all have to find the tools that work for us, whatever those tools are. :D
Amen, my friend. I believe what you wrote wholeheartedly.
ReplyDeleteYou said this so beautifully, Maria, and straight from the heart. I admire all your hard work and determination - and that's only a little bit of what makes you such an awesome person!
ReplyDeletePerfectly stated Maria.. alright Philly Sista, whose ass do we need to kick. I think I might know..
ReplyDeleteYou have got the whole mental part of this nailed.. that is 90 percent of this journey..
And, I might add, do not EVER lose sight of what you have achieved..and do not EVER let anyone's ignorance sway you.. this is your journey, the fact that you have chosen to let us take a peek inside your life should be viewed as a gift.
That was a wonderful post. I just found out you were going to Chicago. Yeah! Can't wait to meet. I ignore that ranter now-blocked him and don't go to his site. I cannot surround myself with anything negative so I only stick to the positive bloggers. And girl-that was an inspirational post.
ReplyDeleteI blocked him,he lost alot of weight & instead of sharing his wisdom as a mentor to those of us still struggling, he assumes his approach is the only way. Everyone has to find their own road in this difficult journey. If this was a one size fits all issue, the answers would be so much easier, I though he was worth reading until he started ranting. I have enough negativity and stress in my life, I won't allow it in my blog world.
ReplyDeleteVery eloquently said.
ReplyDeleteAmen Maria! This post is phenomenal---just like you!
ReplyDeleteAaaaamen!! I think this should be a post people can come back to whenever they are having doubts about themselfs and their band.
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ReplyDeletexoxo
Extremely well said. I am not banded yet, but the wisdom and openness of women like you, Maria, remind me every day that this is the right choice. I know it won't be "easy" but then again hauling around 150 extra lbs. ain't quite so easy either.
ReplyDeleteWho cares what a fool on a soapbox has to say when there are so many smart, confident voices drowning it out.