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WOW!  Today is my five year surgiversy and I am just too excited and praising God! I was being wheeled into the OR at this time in 2007 weighing 318 pounds (down from 327 just a few weeks before) and today by God's grace I hopped on the scale on my way to work and it said I was 158.8!   That's a loss of 168.2 pounds total and 89.99% excess body weight loss per my doctor (who wanted me to get down to 140 pounds).  My 5 year appt with him is on Feb 2 so we will see how my labs are looking at that time.  Well, I posted on December 31 a little longer post so I will not say much right now since I am at work but I didn't want to let this day go by with out saying something! This is a life long journey with its ups and downs...but the thing is not to stay down when you hit a rough spot...we all fall off track but you just have to get back to the basics and start from there.  Don't give up and just keep swimming as Nemo says  and when you need to, find a friend to talk to you who knows what you are dealing with and call them...don't turn to your old comfort...food....we are in this together and I am so thankful that I was blessed with the chance to have this surgery that changed my life and my outlook and has placed so many wonderful new friends in my life.  

A few of my favorite of scripture have help me thru this journey:

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, and they include plans to prosper you so that you can have a future and a hope"

Geneis 18:14 "Is anything to hard for God?"

Ephesians: 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

Matthew 6:25 -34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[e]?

   ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. "


These all apply to the journey of our lives....which include this WLS journey....trust God and know that if He has blessed you to have this tool, He will help you to be successful with it as well.  All He asks is that we trust Him and obey Him through everything.  His way is simple and easy.....but we make it hard.   

 WOW! The close of another year......exactly one month away from my 5 year surgery anniversary......time has gone by quickly.  I am thankful that these 5 years have been complication free.  God is good and He sustains me.....He does what He says He will do but too many times I fall short on my end.  With that being said I am so thankful that I serve a God who gives us many chances to get it together....He is still working on me.  I am thankful for the peopke that God has placed in my life, family and frirnds, to love and spport me even when its hard to do.  And for the ones who stay when its hard to stay when they dont have to....family cant leave 'technically' lol but friends can choose to not be friends, and i can say that Not only was I blessed with a very loving and suppirtive family....I have the most amazing friends.  I am also thankful for the ones who walked away when it wasnt easy to stay......their season was over and I am one to try to make seasonal friends lufetime friends...God knows better than I do so He gives the other person a stronger resolve than I have so they can walk away.....what can I say I am a person pack rat.  

I still have the same fears of not maintai i g the weight loss...this journey is HARD. I remember last year before going in for my 4 yr check up with my surgeon i really went back to basics with my eating and increased the intensity of my work outs because i thought my weight was up from what it was the year before.  Well it turns out I wasnt, so when I weighed in I had lost weight since my visit the year before. And my surgeon asked me 'were u sick last year or did you have surgery?" most pts dont lose weight between their 3rd & 4th yr.  I was like wow......a little offended and like know I worked out at the fitness center where they train football players and atheletes for most of last yr....and i work out 4 days a week at least.....but  anywho......

Last year was an interesting year to say the least.....I turned 40 on August 4, 2011 and about a month and a half before my birthday i went back to the basics cause you know I had to be Fit Fine and Fabulous for my Fortieth...took a trip to Jamaica to celebrate and then went to Vegas to celebrate my fr

It hit me this morning that four years ago I weighed 327 lbs!  And I remember praying and praying for years for God to help me to finally get this weight off.....and He did it!  I had gastric bypass on 1/31/07 and I am now 165 lbs.  Almost half my body size and as I was getting dressed for work it just hit me how good my God is...and I just had to stop and get my praise on. And I wanted to stop and share with anyone who would read this that God is good, faithful and able to anything...nothing is too hard for Him.  Ask and you shall receive.  Believe in Him and know that he will deliver on His promises.......I am very tearful this morning and weepy but not from sadness but from being so thankful and overwhelmed at how blessed I have been.  God has been so good to me and placed so many wonderful people in my life (and some of you here too and I thank you for allowing me to call and bug you are to text you are for just sending a message to encourage me or just believing in me when I didn't).  Well, I have so much more I could write but I am on my way to work....but I will be back on 1/31/11.  Only 20 days til my 4 year anniversay!!  (praise dance) 

Last weigh in was in May....

HW 327
SW 318
LW 175.4
CW 170.8