I am not normal - my life lesson today brought to you by a pumpkin scone
Who wants to be normal? Normal is boring! We are twisted, tortured, conflicted and weird! And of course ever so cute!!!! Don't strive for normal. Strive for great! Unique. Beautiful. Spicy like that lovely scone! Deena, you are not normal maybe in this food thing - like about 90% of people *****ally do have to watch what they eat - hmmmm.....that really makes me wonder if we are on the right track here.....maybe WE really are normal and the other 10% are freaks? You are beautiful and fun and I think you are just perfect. Who cares about normal? Right?
5ft0; highest weight 222; surgery weight 208; current weight 120
Coming in a little late, but......
First, what is normal? What you describe is normal to me because that is exactly the food life I live. So, my dear, come be normal with me.
Second, who the F wants to be normal? Not I? I want to be more than normal. I want to strive to be better than average. But I also want to find the place at which I am satisfied. So, my goal as I see it is to be beautifully, abnormally BALANCED!
You are married to the same dickwad as I am. I secretly hate him for his metabolism and his "normalcy" with food. The *******! LOL!!!!! He's not really. I love him with all my heart, but I have had to deal with the envy I have about him being able to eat virtually anything he wants and not really gain too much weight. When he was young he never gained an ounce, but now that he is older he has a little bit of a belly, but nothing a month of good eating wouldn't fix. We once went on vacation. We ate virtually the same things, though he actually ate more than I did. He lost weight while we were away. I gained. Our husbands have the type of metabolism I can see plotting revenge and murder or signing a contract with the devil to have! LOL! But instead, we must resign ourselves to do the work - measure, log, limit our intake, make some foods off limits, blah, blah, effing blah!
But..... THIS IS OUR TRUTH. Like you, some days I have myself a little pity party about it, but most days I embrace it. This life is good for me. It's good for us! And it's worth it! Thin, healthy and fit is a damn good way to live.
Big hug and hope you're feeling better this evening!
I ******g love you, buddy. Seriously. I never wanted to be normal, and 99% of the time I embrace all of my many oddities. I do feel better tonight. I'm healthy, I'm work hard, I have fun, I have an amazing family, I'm pretty and, by golly, I'm thinner and stronger than I've ever been. I don't need a scone or normalcy bc what I have is far more satisfying. Although my husband is a wonderful man, sometimes I kind of want to strangle him while he eats a whole pizza and a lemon bar without a care in the world. But I will wake up tomorrow, eat a protein rich breakfast that I will measure ad track, put on my size small shorts and go for a run. I AM thankful for this surgery and for who I am. I'm also thankful for you, my lovely, male doppelgänger ;)
