| DREAMS |
| Everyone has dreams, but for the morbidly obese person those dreams pretty much fade into the background because we know they are unattainable. We learn to settle for what we can do with the limited capacity of our bodies. Some of us will suffer from severe depression that only leads to continued weight gain and some of us will be lucky enough to find a way to use our wonderful minds and move beyound the constraints of our bodies. I consider myself lucky to be in the latter group. It was not always that way for me, but with the continued improvement in computers, the Internet and just so many things that I can use to stimulate my very good brain I have found a way beyond being depressed constantly about what I can't do. Am I happy that I have had to settle, absolutely NOT!! But, I am grateful that I have learned how to use my intelligence for a constructive purpose and that I have been able to stop the endless spiral upwards in excess pounds. Gastric Bypass Surgery offers me the opporunity to put my body into action where the brain has wanted to venture. It is offering me the opportunity to free myself from the confines of my home and to venture out into the outside world as an active, vital person. This is such an exciting time for me because I see endless opportunities ahead of me. Have you ever noticed that your brain does not realize the body is getting older or that it is limited in what it can do physically? The brain remains forever young in most of us. We still think we can do those silly things that we did in our youth, but when we try we realize that something has happened to the body along the journey from there to here. It can be an amusing discovery or a sad discovery depending on what is happening in your life at the moment of the discovery. So, what do I envision being able to do as a slim, healthy, and active person. I am working on my list of things to do or goals to reach. I am finding this a bit more difficult than I had originally imagined that it would be because "I had given up on the dream of being slim, healthy, and active." I felt I was stuck forever in this state of fat induced immobility and the resulting pain from just asking my body to forgive me one time too many for weighing so much. |
1) Tie my shoes EASILY 2) Cross my legs without hauling up the leg that I want on top by my pant leg 3) Hike in the Boyce Thompson Arboretum without having to take it slow or worrying about making it back to the truck 4) Do outside fun activities with my dogs!! I chose active dogs because they represent what I most want out of my life. I want to do things with them. 5) Ride a motorcycle if I decide that is to be my special hobby - photo is 1984 (35 pound loss) 6) Restore an old truck if we decide it is financially practical 7) Travel without worrying about the altitude 8) Buy clothes in regular stores and for regular prices 9) Take walks around the neighborhood and get to really know my neighbors 10) Volunteer at a nursing home with a therapy dog or volunteer through the church 11) Fly on a plane without worrying about crowding someone next to me or pinching my hips 12) Actually think about flying to Australia and perhaps doing it if it becomes financially feasible 13) Get a job if I decide that I would like to work outside the home 14) Be able to jump and run 15) Be able to touch the ground by bending over 16) Feel energetic 17) Walk anywhere without my knees hurting 18) Putting my handicap sticker in a scrapbook PERMANENTLY!! 19) Feel like taking a cross country cemetery trip to the midwest as part of my genealogy research project (yes, that sounds like so much fun) 20) To see New Hampshire in the fall 21) To see the Smokey Moutains 22) To see Montana 23) To see the beauty of Utah 24) To feel up to going to the local genealogy sites (LDS) and spending the day researching for long lost ancestors 25) To not have my body be my limitation on what I decide to do with an idea 26) To be part of a husand and wife team that goes into our senior years active, fit and trim (just like in those old Centrum commercials) 27) To ride a horse again 28) To do agility training with one of my dogs (Savannah) 29) To be able to paint my house without hiring someone to do it. 30) To become a classy and attractive senior citizen. 31) To have regular, attractive shoes fit my feet! No socks with sandals. 32) To become a fit person for the first time in my life. 33) To be able to plant more variety of plants in the yard - sort of a desert botanical garden oasis in the back yard. 34) To have the energy to cook healthy for both Steve and myself. 35) More to follow. |
| These are some of my goals for the future and this list will grow as I think of things. I will come back and put the date in that I actually achieved these goals. My list is in no particular order as it will be part of a brain-storming session and grow over time. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~~ |
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