You all know I work with people who are recovering from joint replacement...they come to my classes 3 or 6 months out of surgery with aches and pains and tight knee joints that just don't bend. Frustrated. They went through all this work and the their surgeon said they would be "good as new" in 8-12 weeks -- here it's been double that now and still no relief....
I sit and listen. Ask a few questions. And for the most part, you know what? They are right on their healing schedule!
A great many surgeons will tell their patients healing takes 6-12 weeks. Physical therapists will say longer -- maybe even 6 months.
It has been mine experience that a good many times, it takes 12-14 months for people to completely heal from a knee or hip surgery. It takes that long to get all the swelling out of the joint and getting it back to "normal". I can attest to this with my own knee surgery (ACL repair).
But most of the time, people are okay with the longer healing time once they understand it is going to take that long. They just thought it would be quicker (per the doc's assessment) and so they think something is wrong with them as the healing time drags on.
Lots of things (dare I say most things?) take longer than we want them to or think they should. Weight loss is like that -- always takes longer than it seems like it should.
But the weight when on slowly too, right? "No! It happened the night of my 29th/40th/ or50th birthday", you say -- but mostly your wrong. A pound or two here and a pound or two there. A couple bites extra at this meal and a couple secret snacks when you were in your car. They add up...slowly. And that is the way they are going to come off....slowly.
So I will be honest up front. Changing eating habits that have been ingrained over a lifetime is not a quick task. The weight will come off as you change your behaviors -- but slowly -- the same way you are changing your behaviors.
I am hoping that if you know that up front, you will be okay with it and understand that is the way these things work.
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