As I said in my last post, one of the requirements that I need to meet in order to be approved for gastric bypass surgery is to lose 40 pounds prior to surgery day. They ask this because they highly prefer to perform the surgery laparoscopically. In order to be able to get to where they need to get to, the surgeon has to move the liver. I guess when you lose weight, one of the first places you lose fat from is from around your organs. The less fatty the liver, the better the results for surgery.
It's kind of ironic. I wouldn't be pursuing this surgery if losing weight was something I was proficient at.
Needless to say, after years of ups and downs and probably hundreds of different attempts at losing weight, this seems to be a daunting task. I know I can do it but I have spent the last several days in mental disagreement with myself over what approach to take. Should I count calories? Should I just eat clean foods? After thinking about it, I had pretty much had decided I was going to try the South Beach Diet again. I had some success with it in the past but didn't feel it was sustainable for life. But I just wasn't excited about it. My brain wouldn't let me come up with a concrete plan. It just didn't click with me.
I prayed about it. I asked God to just make it clear to me which way would be the most successful. I thanked him for caring about these little details. I asked him to help me to do it.
So tonight I sit down at the computer after I put Micah to bed. My plan was to pin down a grocery list so that tomorrow I could get healthy food in the house and the whole family could get started on this journey together. Within thirty minutes, I still had no list but I had a woman who is a health and wellness ninja ask me what kinds of food we like/don't like and she offered to gather some recipes for me. Five minutes later I asked a friend for a recipe and left the conversation with two recipes AND an offer to pay for 3 months of Weight Watchers to help me along.
Normally it would be hard for me to accept a gift like that, but today I just had to realize that it was an answer to prayer. It wasn't exactly a voice from the clouds, but wow. "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened unto you."
I always feel humbled to know that God really is listening.
It's kind of ironic. I wouldn't be pursuing this surgery if losing weight was something I was proficient at.
Needless to say, after years of ups and downs and probably hundreds of different attempts at losing weight, this seems to be a daunting task. I know I can do it but I have spent the last several days in mental disagreement with myself over what approach to take. Should I count calories? Should I just eat clean foods? After thinking about it, I had pretty much had decided I was going to try the South Beach Diet again. I had some success with it in the past but didn't feel it was sustainable for life. But I just wasn't excited about it. My brain wouldn't let me come up with a concrete plan. It just didn't click with me.
I prayed about it. I asked God to just make it clear to me which way would be the most successful. I thanked him for caring about these little details. I asked him to help me to do it.
So tonight I sit down at the computer after I put Micah to bed. My plan was to pin down a grocery list so that tomorrow I could get healthy food in the house and the whole family could get started on this journey together. Within thirty minutes, I still had no list but I had a woman who is a health and wellness ninja ask me what kinds of food we like/don't like and she offered to gather some recipes for me. Five minutes later I asked a friend for a recipe and left the conversation with two recipes AND an offer to pay for 3 months of Weight Watchers to help me along.
Normally it would be hard for me to accept a gift like that, but today I just had to realize that it was an answer to prayer. It wasn't exactly a voice from the clouds, but wow. "Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find. Knock and the door will be opened unto you."
I always feel humbled to know that God really is listening.
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