sweethollow
Fall is finally here!
Oct 02, 2010
Today was such a beautiful fall day, and autumn is my FAVORITE season of the year! So I have enjoyed it. My daughter and I went for I nice walk last night after dinner and it was so cool and lovely! Today I spent a good amount of time cleaning out my closet. I think I must have taken out 80-85% of my clothes, because they are now too big! I have bagged them up, and will pass them onto anyone who needs size 18-20 clothes. Many of them were really nice, less than a year old and only worn two or three times. My mom is hoping to have this surgery in the next couple of months-she has already begun the process. So I think I will give them to her. I am excited for her. Can't wait until she can start losing weight and feel better too!I feel like my surgery was such a long time ago, and yet it has really only been a little over two months. I just feel so much better than I did, and it just gets better and better with every pound that comes off. My knees don't hurt, my back doesn't hurt, I have so much more energy than I used to. I sleep a lot better, and I don't think about food constantly. I have lost a total of 52 lbs., as of Tuesday.
I am to the point that I can now pretty much eat anything I ate before my surgery. I do eat mostly organic, and pretty healthy, though, so that helps. I am just satisfied with much less food. My daughter even made home made (organic, wheat-free) belgian waffles this morning, and I had half of one with a little real maple syrup. I have also found some organic chocolate wafer cookies that are low enough in sugar and calories, that I can actually have four of them! So it is nice to have a little chocolate for the occassion I feel like having something sweet. I still drink one protein shake a day as well (2 oz. organic fruit juice, one cup of soy milk, and one scoop of organic soy isolate protein powder, with ice). In fact I have noticed that I can eat a little more now than I could up until now, so I know I have to be very careful not to over eat and stretch out my pouch. I also had some coconut icecream on my husband's birthday two weeks ago, and that didn't bother me. It makes me wonder if I am in the smaller percent of people that don't "dump". It might sound odd, but I was hoping that too much sugar would make me dump. It's one of the reasons I wanted this sugery. But I will just thank the Lord and pray that I will have the strength to resist sugar.
On Thursday, I took my kids to a theater to see a Shakespeare play. It was the first time that I could sit in a theater seat and still have space on either side of me- I wasn't spilling over the arm rests of the chair! It was such a nice feeling.
It's just so many little things like this that I am thankful for, and don't want to ever forget, lest I end up very heavy again.
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About Me
Collierville, TN
Location
31.5
BMI
Surgery
07/22/2010
Surgery Date
Jun 13, 2010
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