So I lost my band in June b/c of some complications, was revised to the VSG on 8/1/11 and for the first time in my life I have reached my goal weight. Life with the VSG is everything I THOUGHT it was going to be with the band, my life is pretty amazing right now.

since its been a year, I guess you can tell that LOL I am coming up on my bandiversary, and I am down 70 lbs in a year! I feel great and (according to my husband, and ex boyfried LOL) look great! My next goal is 199, I can't wait to see that number on the scale! 

I hurt my back on Sat, I was reaching down to get a pillow off the floor and BAM I could not move. Went to the doc the following day, she thinks because I was sedentary for so long and now I am so active that the weak muslces in my lower back finally just gave up LOL So I have to rotate between a lidocain patch and a flector patch, and take a muscle relaxer at night (which really helps, but makes me feel like crap in the morning). 

She thinks it will be about two to three weeks befrore I am back to normal, and then I have to start doing core exercises to get my lower back muscles back to where they should be so I don't have to go though this again.

I have earned two of them already! 

It's all so close now I can't even believe it! I had my upper GI endo and that was pretty easy, and everything looked good. I have been on the Medifast for two weeks, although its been hard I have been pretty good about it and have lost 17 lbs. I am sleepy though and feeling kind of worn out, maybe from all the rushing around and trying to get things done befor the surgery. I know that people from church are going to be stopping by with dinners most nights and I want the house to at least look decent when they do.

Oh well, 4 days until my life changes forever. I am so exicted to start this new journey.

So my journey up to this point has been insane, and moving so fast I don't even know where the time has gone. I remember thinking how far off my Cardio appointment seemed on April 30th and here it is, come and gone! I have a feeling I am going to blink and surgery will be upon me!