Friday, March 26, 2010
Attitude of Gratitude!
Attitude of Gratitude!: "Wanted to share a Daily Inspiration by Katie Jay that I read this week that can hit home some times!
Contribute: Being obese made your life smaller. You were less able to do even simple activities. You may have spent more time worrying about your woes, rather than figuring out what you could contribute to your community. Following WLS, your energy increases as well as your ability to focus on positive efforts.
Now, you're able to contribute time, energy and attention outside yourself. Maybe you want to be a foster parent. Or volunteer to help with a cause you've always wished you had the energy and stamina to support. You might just want to bring a meal to a sick friend or help your spouse with the yard work.
Whatever you do, approach it with gratitude for your new ability to help others!
Attitude of gratitude~
What is something you always wanted to do for someone else?"
Contribute: Being obese made your life smaller. You were less able to do even simple activities. You may have spent more time worrying about your woes, rather than figuring out what you could contribute to your community. Following WLS, your energy increases as well as your ability to focus on positive efforts.
Now, you're able to contribute time, energy and attention outside yourself. Maybe you want to be a foster parent. Or volunteer to help with a cause you've always wished you had the energy and stamina to support. You might just want to bring a meal to a sick friend or help your spouse with the yard work.
Whatever you do, approach it with gratitude for your new ability to help others!
Attitude of gratitude~
What is something you always wanted to do for someone else?"
I weigh 304 pounds today... 80 pounds down from my all-time high 15 months ago. And now that I've had Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery, I'm on a roller-coaster ride down down down.
For the curious, it's 24 pounds lost since surgery. The scale has only really begun moving in earnest over the last week or so. I guess my bod was recovering from the shock of surgery... and I had lost 56 pounds the year before surgery, with about 15 lost during the two-week liquid diet before surgery.
There! My first Weight Loss Surgery post outside of ObesityHelp.com. I'm thinking there may be more here as well as there.
Still evaluating my "blog strategy." It makes me smile when I type that. I don't feel like I have a purpose... nothing in particular to market. Don't have any plans to be a real "player" in the WLS blogger market... though I admire those who do. More about that another time.
Let me hear from you if you are a guy considering Weight Loss Surgery, or a post-op guy. There's no shortage of women on the net talking about WLS... not that there's anything wrong with that!!! Gosh, I married a woman and have stayed married for 20 years. It's just that we guys have a few different issues (we seem to need more protein in our diet, according to several sources I've seen, for example).
Maybe I'll add my $.02 to the WLS wisdom out there. We'll see, time will tell.
For the curious, it's 24 pounds lost since surgery. The scale has only really begun moving in earnest over the last week or so. I guess my bod was recovering from the shock of surgery... and I had lost 56 pounds the year before surgery, with about 15 lost during the two-week liquid diet before surgery.
There! My first Weight Loss Surgery post outside of ObesityHelp.com. I'm thinking there may be more here as well as there.
Still evaluating my "blog strategy." It makes me smile when I type that. I don't feel like I have a purpose... nothing in particular to market. Don't have any plans to be a real "player" in the WLS blogger market... though I admire those who do. More about that another time.
Let me hear from you if you are a guy considering Weight Loss Surgery, or a post-op guy. There's no shortage of women on the net talking about WLS... not that there's anything wrong with that!!! Gosh, I married a woman and have stayed married for 20 years. It's just that we guys have a few different issues (we seem to need more protein in our diet, according to several sources I've seen, for example).
Maybe I'll add my $.02 to the WLS wisdom out there. We'll see, time will tell.
'To acquire love... fill yourself up with it until you become a magnet.'
~ Charles Haanel
~ Charles Haanel
Monday, March 22, 2010
Wow, I went a year without a post. Now Blogger is discontinuing FTP support and I've moved to a new URL: http://gkeeler.blogspot.com.
This blog is apparently more for me than anyone else, and I've had fun reading old posts. If you have too, please comment.
Still sorting out my "blog strategy," ha ha ha. Obviously, it's not so important to me to write a lot. Oh, well. Perhaps that will change. Or, not.
This blog is apparently more for me than anyone else, and I've had fun reading old posts. If you have too, please comment.
Still sorting out my "blog strategy," ha ha ha. Obviously, it's not so important to me to write a lot. Oh, well. Perhaps that will change. Or, not.
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