Almost A Year Out

Feb 08, 2009

Hello All,

I can't believe how fast the time has gone.  I will be a year out on March 31st.  I thank God for the opportunity to make it this far and to be at the weight that I am.  I can't remember the last time that I weighed 200 anything.  I broke down and bought a scale.  I hadn't previously bought one, because I didn't want to become obsessed with weighing myself everyday or even every other day.  I figured that since I was almost a year out, that I would go ahead and buy one.  So I had my son to go ahead and put the battery in it for me and of course he had to jump on it first. Ha!

I hadn't weighed myself in a while, so I was sort of hesitant, on top of the fact that I had been eating a lot of junk lately.  Mainly chips and dip this week.  I had done so well up until this weekend.  At any rate I got on the scale and it read 228.8.  I was so excited I had to get on it again to make sure that it was right and the second time it read 228.2.  So, I have finally broken that 230 plateau that I had been on since January.  I felt like I had probably lost some more weight, but I wasn't for sure because I didn't have a scale nor had I weighed myself at my husbands job.  So any way, I got my praise on in my dining room. My son was like "Mom that's not right, you weigh less than me".  I was like yes it is, shoot!  My son is 15 years old and about 6'2 or 6'3 and weighs 229 lbs and I'm only 5'7.  He's a big boy! 

My total weightloss since surgery is 103lbs and 118lbs since the beginning of my journey to lose this weight.  People I have lost a whole person.  When you think about it that way, its hard to comprehend that I was really carrying around an average size female.  God is so good!  I know that a lot of people still believe that this type of surgery is the easy way out,; but they are so uninformed.  This is probably the hardest decision that I have ever made in my life and I don't regret having the surgery at all.  My health is better and I am now open to doing some things that I would have never tried at 346lbs.  I want to go rock climbing, of course in a controlled environment with the straps and bungee cords hooked to me, etc. Ha!  I want to walk a long trail or even a hiking trail with some hills, shoot I might would even try running a little bit.  I do like the adrenaline that I get from running.

I have added more weight traning to my cardio sessions.  I would like to recommend the Prevention workout series with instructor Chris Freytag.  She is awesome and the workouts are not too difficult to learn.  I started out with her walking dvd and have now added about 4 or 5 more of the series to my workout dvd library.  I've learned that it is to your advantage to weight train while doing cardio.  You burn more calories and tone up at the same time.  You can order them from Prevention.com.  You will really be glad that you bought them.

Well, I guess that I'll close now.  To my OH Family, thanks for all of the encouragement and kind comments.  I have made a lot of friends on the site and I thank God for you.  To those who have had the surgery, keep on pressing forward and to those who are going through the process of getting the surgery, keep your head up and know that your day is coming.

Be blessed and stay encouraged!

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