Fortune Cookie Therapy-

The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It

Flip-side:  Pick Your Battles.

I don’t think I could have picked a better slip out of the bowl in my therapist’s office if I would have tried, last Friday. The slip read: The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It.  And for any of us planning to have a gastric bypass, or recovering from one.  Those words should ring true in our ears! 

I'm hearing that this is a time to truly envision my new life unfolding before me, and to concentrate on all of the steps that I know will make me successful in my endeavor to be healthier.  Since I’m still waiting for my surgery date (coming 8/11/10)!, I can only plan, read, trust, and take on pure faith, that everything will be fine.  I’ve been told that if I follow the steps my bariatric surgeon and her team have laid out for me, and I exercise, and eat carefully, and utilize all of the tools that have been shared with me, then I will learn to accept a new lifestyle and I will lose weight.  It sounds so simple.  Could it really be so simple after all of the efforts that I've made over the years?  Weight Watchers, the Grape Fruit Diet, The Cabbage Soup Diet, Jenny Craig, and the others all made me believe that I would be thin and physically well, like all of the promises that were made?

The trick is in knowing that there’s a lot of hard work, episodes of “head hunger," and difficult times ahead.  The tool — my gastric bypass — gives me that amazing leg up in managing my weight, my hunger, and my lifestyle.

I couldn’t be more excited — although a little nervous, still — finally the excitement outweighs the nerves!  I realize that I am creating my future, and can predict success in my future because of what I’m learning.

Comments?  I’d love to hear from you out there, lurking and reading along….