When I was about 18, my sister and I went to the ocean--we didn't live that far away, so we liked to go to the ocean a lot. On the way there, we passed my favorite spot--the Dairy Maid (GASP). We pulled up to the drive thru-after all who is getting out and walking in to make an order? It was one of those drive thru windows where you made your order through a little box attached to plywood sign with the menu on it--all painted. As we got to the spot, I inhaled deeply and exclained, "Hm-mm doesn't...

Inertia--it is the extra energy it takes to move something. A rock--needs a certain amount of energy to get it moving. Once moving--there is less energy to move it.
Metaphorically speaking, what is inertia to a
WLS patient? I'm two years out, and as the song goes the party is over. I am at the point where my gym membership is a contribution and not a fee, my snooze alarm gets more action than my tennis shoes, and my water intake is great if you consider I mask it in coffee with...

Inertia--it is the extra energy it takes to move something. A rock--needs a certain amount of energy to get it moving. Once moving--there is less energy to move it.
Metaphorically speaking, what is inertia to a
WLS patient? I'm two years out, and as the song goes the party is over. I am at the point where my gym membership is a contribution and not a fee, my snooze alarm gets more action than my tennis shoes, and my water intake is great if you consider I mask it on coffee with low...

You know the room. Mirrors on all sides, sometimes you can see someone's feet under the glass wall. Almost always there is space above and you can hear the Muzac playing. Celine Dion is crooning out a high pitched love song, and I am playing Harry Houdini trying to find out my new bra size.
Sure, YES I DID, let the sales clerk measure me. She cracked on the measuring tape and determined I was a 40DDD. Frankly I am a little worried I am going to be a 6:00 o'clock OMG NEWS when the medics come...

Again I am awake in the middle of the night--bleh.

I am off track, and getting back on the rails. It starts so simply, stop tracking your food, then your exercise, skip a day her and a day there. But I know these are symptoms and not the problem. The problem is putting others and other things before my health. After all what's an extra hour at the office--skipped exercise What's the problem with eating through lunch? All of these things add up to be that I give away myself and put everyone...