Aug 27, 2007 14:56
My daughter is upset with me because she thinks I have done this surgery to "get skinny" well first of all being skinny isn't on my lists of "things to be" I want to be able to do things once and for all. I want to walk through a public restroom and be able to use the regular toilets. I want to be able to have enough confidence in myself to know I don't need food to live by.. I had started sugar problems right before I had surgery, the dr was considering on putting me on the diabetic pills.. and now my sugar is perfect to low.. I want to be able to walk down the street and not worry about how much pain Im going to be in from doing something I have wanted to do for so long... I want to be able to ride a horse again and smell the smell that only a sadle and bridle brings.. I was able to ride roller coaster this past summer, but I wouldn't have been able to had I not decided that I was going through with the surgery.
Yes this means that I change my eating habits, but to tell the truth my eating habbits were killing me... Literaly. I found security through my fat, but that was such a false security that it was also killing me, or rather killing the person who God intended me to be.
Im just so heart broke that she (daughter) can not see all the things I have been through and how bad my life was going. Instead she is focused on the thing I don't want her to focus on..
She is so sensitive (sp?) and I don't want her to keep thinking "its about being skinny"
If anyone has any "words of wisdom" I could give her please by all means pass them my way..
Its not about what you look like. Its about how healthy you can get yourself.
I take full credit for doing all the bad stuff to my body and now I have taken full credit for trying to undo some of the damage that I have done..
May God bless you all
Paula
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