5 WLS Sayings To Start My Day

Sep 27, 2010

I love quotes and inspiration things that I see.  I have a long document that just lists things that I've seen that hit me that I want to remember.  I have these by my mirror as I start my day.  Here are some of my favorites that I wanted to share here.  They help me so I hope they help other members too!

1. Food is not my friend nor my enemy; it is just fuel for my body, just like gasoline is for my car.  I need to live my life without a focus on food.  I need to fill my life up with people and things that make me happy so I can be full from my life, not food.

2.  Take care of myself first, and then I'm available to care for others.  If I don't take care of myself, then I'll deplete myself and not be available for others.  I like to remember the oxygen mask on planes.  The flight attendant will tell you at the beginning of every flight to put your own mask on first and then help children and others.  Meaning to that is if you don't take care of your needs with the oxygen mask, you can't take care of anyone else.  Enough said!

3.  Emotional overeating is an addiction and food is our self-medication.  Don't kid myself into thinking I just like food and that is why I eat.  It is the same thinking for any addiction.  Alcoholics don't drink booze because they are thirsty.  We have a wiring that I've learned to change the way I'm feeling, I turn to food.  I self-manage my emotions and things in my life with food.  That is an abuse of food because that's not what it is meant for.  When I self-manage myself (without the crutch of food), I am stronger inside and out.

4.  I am the only person that decides what makes me happy.  I need to look inside myself to find the answers.  Rather than look for external approval, look inside because that is the real source.  You/I am so much more than whatever externals we give our power away to.

5.  WLS is a tool, ultimately success is up to me!  I still have my brain and it is up to me to choose the tool of my surgery.  I am post-op long enough that I know ultimately I am making the choices - healthy or unhealthy.  There is no magic to our surgery.  Some choices I must live by to get to where I want to go.  In order to lose and/or maintain (depending on the day!), it is up to me and the choices I make.  I need to create the environment (my kitchen) that supports my healthy lifestyle.  While my surgery is a great tool, ultimately my success and lifestyle is my choice and my own actions.

Here's to our mutual success!! 

Cathy
www.mydailyminutes.com

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