Repost: Cinderella Syndrome
Thanks for this post. It hits home with me big time. I do fear regain so bad! Now with summer and being off for 2 months I feel like when school starts again I am going to be 250 lbs! That is not even possible...right!
Thanks again, I know I can do this, I have to be on top of it everyday....
Thanks again, I know I can do this, I have to be on top of it everyday....
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me. ~ Ayn Rand
Blu-Diva 
Ok, I cannot possibly be the ONLY person here who is not particularly worried about regain. Can I?!?
I realize that, since I am almost 5 years out, I have some additional "evidence" that I am not going to suddenly start gaining it all back, but I was not particularly worried about it when I was only a year or two out.
My surgeon emphasized from the info session onward that this was not a "cure", and that the surgery would GET the weight off but that I would have to KEEP it off. So perhaps knowing from the very beginning that I was in control of regaining or not made me less fearful. I was far more fearful of not losing enough weight than of gaining it all back.
Lora
I realize that, since I am almost 5 years out, I have some additional "evidence" that I am not going to suddenly start gaining it all back, but I was not particularly worried about it when I was only a year or two out.
My surgeon emphasized from the info session onward that this was not a "cure", and that the surgery would GET the weight off but that I would have to KEEP it off. So perhaps knowing from the very beginning that I was in control of regaining or not made me less fearful. I was far more fearful of not losing enough weight than of gaining it all back.
Lora
14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained
You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.
Lora's not the only one worried about regain! so my new mantra is gonna be "I'm not Cinderella, I'm a princess!""
BTW, if therapists really were worth their weight in gold, I'd be worth $2433150!
BTW, if therapists really were worth their weight in gold, I'd be worth $2433150!
First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.
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