I Had an Epiphanette – I Feel So Lucky!
“Why are you sitting there like an envelope with no address on it?”
Samuel Clemens aka Mark Twain
The last time I wrote I was looking for an epiphany. You know, that huge smack upside your head that brings light to your eyes and meaning to your life. Then yesterday, I got an email from one of Dr Amson’s patients asking about my weight loss surgery experience. He’s the abdominal surgeon that did my sleeve gastrectomy and has pre-surgery people contact post-surgery people for real information. I wrote a nice note about the “shoulds” everyone wanting to lose and keep weight off should do. It was this morning when I was e-mailing her my food journal form that I had an epiphanette. 
It was a “duh” moment, an “a-ha!”, the light bulb went on, an epiphanette. Sigh. Why don’t I listen to my own advice?
Because sometimes we/I don’t want to do the right things. We/I may think it’s too difficult, or too much work, or will fail, or…..whatever. How many epiphanettes do I need before I get it? Do I accumulate them and then look back and see they are now an epiphany? Or do I share I share them with the world which replies: “Duh! We knew that.”
I gave this woman my food journal. I haven’t been keeping up with mine lately and it shows – in the tightness of my jeans and the looseness of my jiggly parts!!!! Poetic, right? So, today looks like this:
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Food
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Time
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Where
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Feeling
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Note
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| Dec 16
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coffee – black
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6:45…
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kitchen table
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awake, guilt
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1/2 2-egg omelette with veggies
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8:35
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kitchen table
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a little righteous, no/low carb
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no white food week
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other half omelette
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12:01
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kitchen table
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starving and deprived
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coffee with 1% milk |
12:10 |
kitchen table in front of computer |
OK but still hungry |
more water! |
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It IS a good start to the week and my breakfast at Epiphany’s will see me through. Now for the exercise and ignoring the Tim Horton’s I have to pass every time I go to or return from work. Thanks for listening. ;D Diane
