I realized yesterday that I haven’t done a single mindfulness exercise since I moved into this new house. Additionally, it seems I have stopped practicing mindfulness all together, here within the past however long. At least that’s what it feels like.
I have started to notice that I am having a lot of intrusive and obsessive thoughts. They spiral, they go out of control, they so go there. And then back again. And then there. I have become stuck inside of my own brain. There is a part of me that wants to get out, and a part of me that would rather just stay there.
I have been doing some evaluating of my health here in the last month or so. I feel like shit. My weight has gotten to the point that it is keeping me from doing things I once enjoyed, and also keeping me from things necessary to function. It’s not pretty.
I am considering Lap-Band surgery. I have had a weight problem since I was young, and have tried to control that problem since I was in my mid-teens. I go up and down, up and down. Off and on Weight Watchers, trying low-carb, joining a gym, buying a Bowflex, taking diet pills, exercising into pain and then relapsing on food. Nothing has given me the results I desire. And I don’t desire to be thin. I just want to be able to function again. I want to have energy and I want to be healthy for years to come.
It has been quite an experience for me, reading all of the forums and literature about Lap-Band. It is anxiety-provoking, because I wonder if I can do it, and it is exciting because it is a new possibility. I would have to radically change how I eat and live. I would have to do that anyway in order to lose any weight.
If I don’t want to end up dead at 35, I will have to radically change my eating and exercise patterns, whether I get a Lap-Band or not. I question if I can do it. I wonder if my overall life pattern of apathy toward improving my health can change. I am asking the question and not getting an answer.
I am going to a seminar on Saturday about the procedure. Hopefully that will help me decide if this is something I want to do and something I think I can do. I want to be sure. This is serious.
If this blog seems forced, that’s because it is.
Sometimes, I have to practice a little opposite-to-emotion to get through all that willfulness I have churning inside me.
RosieSmrtiePants 
It is hard to change your lifestyle because much of our everyday life consists of rote behavior. We just do things. Some of this behavior gets hard wired into our brains and that makes it even more difficult to change.
The problem we run into when you try to change our lifestyle is that it consists of numerous behavioral and thought loops. It is hard to change more than one or two things at a time. So we try to change our diet, stop snapping, cut back on our drinking, cut back or even quit smoking, go to the gym, go to sleep at a reasonable hour all at the same time. It may work for a while and then we fall into our old routines.
Try to pick out a thing or two that may be somewhat easy to change and just concentrate on them. It may take a while but you may find that you can change one or two behaviours. Then work on trying to make those part of your lifestyle. If you can make those stick then try another thing.
Pasha
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