I sure do love ya’ll! I am blown away at all the responses on the To IUD or not to IUD post from yesterday… blown away! I made an appt to have the IUD removed but am waiting for a call back from my doctor to talk about it before then too. I am scared that if I have it removed and don’t lose the weight, then where does that leave the blame? On me — ah, such is life!
In fun news, I’m super excited to share with you this picture:
It’s a picture of Carlos and our general contractor, Jacob, who stopped over last night. Jacob brought with the paperwork for us to sign to begin Operation Fix Tornado Damage! Guess when it starts?
TODAY!
TODAY!
TODAY!
Yep, today they begin putting a new roof on! Initial estimates is that the cost to fix everything from the tornado is $50,000 but Jacob estimates it’ll go a little higher… how much higher is unknown at this point. Thank GOD for insurance!
In other news, I had my appointment with Jenny, my therapist, this past Tuesday and was immediately reminded why it is so important for me to go. I’m not crazy but here’s my thoughts on therapy:
They are the experts!
They are trained in how to figure out all this mumble jumble that goes on in my head. And better yet, they can connect dots in my life when I didn’t even know there were dots to connect! I am a FIRM believer in that therapy is no a sign of weakness – in fact, I cringe when people even use “therapy” and “weakness” in the same sentence, including when someone tries to defend therapy as not being weak, because even associating the two words in the same sentence implies that some could consider it as weak… how is THAT for a run-on sentence?!
I have a lot of ish going on in my life. But I’m not unique. We all lead pretty hectic lives. I’m 1,000% confident that if you read my blog because you too struggle with your healthiness journey, you WILL find therapy a benefit. And, in my opinion, it is very important to find a therapist who’s specialty is in disordered eating because he or she will get it. It being the true source of the healthiness struggles — they won’t tell you “oh you should go home and try to eat intuitively” but instead, they will dig deep and get to the source!
Back to my own journey, I had a great catch-up appointment with Jenny and will begin seeing her weekly after the long holiday weekend which is perfect timing because we are coming up on the two year anniversary of mom’s death already {whew, holy shizzznuts — did I really just type that?}
Alright friends, here are some posts I owe you:
- The real cost of skin removal surgery
- One Step, One Breath: a priorfatgirl get-together (August 2011)
- How I avoided the vending machine by pulling my pants down
- The day I deleted Twitter
- Update on Operation Fix Tornado Damage
- An adult sleepover
- what else? anything you want/need me to cover?
And with that, I’ve got a run to get in and then a SERIOUS day of work ahead of me! Remember… if you ever want to know what’s going on real time, feel free to stalk me by watching my updates at www.twitter.com/priorfatgirl.
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That’s great Jen!
I love what you says about therapy and it is so true. Not many people ‘get’ what we personally go through and going to experts shouldn’t be seen as weakness. It is self belief that we can get through something no matter what, we just need a little help to get things in order. We respect ourselves and will do what we need to do to be who we are.
Wow that was hard to write without making it about strength and weakness. I never realised that before.
Great post Jen!
Jen,
Wow there is alot going on in your head. No wonder you are so busy No down time for you. I am Happy for you and Carlos that your house is being put back together today!! Oh Don’t make Lasagna with Bacon instead of noodles.. Just a thought LOL.
Have a great day and i cant wait to read about your posts you owe us.
See Ya
Hugs, Larry
Going to therapy was one of the best decisions I ever made. I was able to find not only a therapist that dealt with disordered eating, but suffered from the same disorder I did (who had also lost 120 lbs and kept it off for 6 years and counting). I learned SO much about myself and the emotions I was not allowing myself to feel. Unfortunately she moved away, but there were a lot of awesome lessons I learned that have helped me throughout the past year while she has been gone. By NO means does therapy = weakness, in fact, I think EVERYONE should see a therapist. Therapy should be FREE. Okay, not really.
Glad to hear things are on the upswing!
I vote for more pics of iggy
Going to therapy was one of the best decisions, hands-down, that I ever made. I went through a terrible, painful breakup due to infidelity earlier this year and I needed someone to listen to all the mumble jumble going through my head as well! I still go once every other week and it makes a difference. Admitting you need help is a sign of maturity and courage, no matter what you decide to go to therapy for. Kudos to you, Jen! You inspire me.
I agree with Sly! Iggy!!!
So happy to hear that things are coming together at home. And I can’t wait to find out the details on One Breathe, One Step! Maybe I can swing another weekend trip to the city!
The big advantage that therapists have is that they have sen a zillion people dealing with issues that we only know from one person’s point of view: ours. It’s so hard to know whether what you’re feeling is just you being weird or something that others have dealt with that isn’t anything to worry about, or something that you do need to deal with, and here’s a few techniques that have worked for others. You don’t feel like you’re flying in a fogbank when you get an idea of the other ways that an issue has popped up in other people’s lives and how they managed it.
The big plus to therapists is that they’ve simply seen it before. A good one is a gold mine.
I am so excited for your upcoming posts. I cannot believe it has been 2 years… how does time do this??
Those posts sound exciting. Oh and don’t worry I am a totally twitter stalker or would that be tweet stalker….I have already told my hubby then I have been on summer vacation for less than a week and I might need an intervention when I head back to work. I even set up a twitter account for my classes next year since I figured heck if I like this how great would it be if when I was in school my teacher tweeted me my homework….of course I did a private account because I don’t want my students to know I stalk (I mean follow) certain reality tv stars. Looking forward to your posts and glad you are starting the fixing of your home!
Oh I also forgot to mention that the best thing I have ever done for myself is admit that I had issues with eating and begin to deal with them in therapy. Congrats on heading back
You deleted Twitter? Awesome! I will fully admit, I don’t even understand how to use it. And frankly I mess with my darn smart phone way way way to much to also have twitter. I would seriously border child neglect if I found anything else to look at on there. =)
Also I wanted to say in response to yesterday’s post…..I think it sounds like you are over the IUD. I also successfully lost weight on the depo shot. It was a fantastic birth control option for me at the time. (20-23) And I went on to have two healthy pregnancies & kids after using it.
I understand why you worry that you might find you “can’t” lose weight post-IUD – when I lost my weight it all felt so tentative, so unbelievable, etc that I didn’t really know how to hold onto th most important fact. Here is is for you:
You lost almost 100 pounds and have kept it off for a significant amount of time. If these few don’t “fall” off after the IUD is gone, YOU HAVE THE SKILLS to go back to basics, look at everything you are doing, and figure out what you need to change.
THere is not a point at which you will be DONE and your body will be STATIC and you will find a routine that can be unvarying and give you the same results.
Good luck with the blessing of change that comes along with the blessing of life.
I’ve been wondering: I don’t know how the surgery dates match up with the wedding. Have you told us when THAT big date is?