Almost Christmas...

Dec 22, 2010

I've been sitting here with my new camera trying to get some updated photos that are similar to ones I've already posted online.  It's a new camera so I don't have the cable & software hooked up to my PC yet to be able to download them.  I've been sitting here just staring at the photos on my camera vs the ones in my profile and am dumbfounded.

At one point a few months ago I said to my hubby that I look at the before & after photos on this site and so many people don't look anything like they did before surgery.   Their faces especially have changed so much.  I wondered at the time if there would be that dramatic a difference in my face.   I don't see it day to day when I look in the mirror but staring at the image on the camera tonight is mind boggling.

I know, it would be much more helpful if you could see the photos yourself, but you'll just have to be patient.   I saved the shirt I wore last year on Christmas Eve so I can get a photo of me in it this year.   Maybe I'll make you wait until the weekend.  Maybe not.  It depends more on my memory than my mood anyway!. 

One of my mom's friends came up to me tonight and said "obviously your surgery was a big success" and I said it has been very easy.  He said "come on now, you had surgery, that wasn't easy."   Well, it was for my surgeon, but the rest of it has been easy.    Well, ok, I was a raging bitch during the pre-op diet, it wasn't a lot of fun having my insides rearranged and the gas in the hospital I could have done without.   But compared to every other diet I've ever been on, how every day was a battle of will and what a struggle it was to lose the weight - this is pretty easy.  I reread my last post from 6 weeks ago talking about needing to lose another 80# and realized I'm 59# away now.   That's insane!

This surgery has been such a blessing.  This holiday season has been one of the least stressful of my life.  I've never been happier.   I cannot believe how much my life has changed in just the past three months, let alone the past year.   I think of how everything fell in line for me and am just feeling like life just doesn't get much better than this.  

Let's see if the computer gremlins will allow me to post these here now - I finally got them into a thread on the RYN forum.




Hey - it worked.   Weird.

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