Under 2 C's

Oct 21, 2007

Today is a big day for me. I weighed myself and saw that I am out of the 200's for my first time EVER as an adult. I probably haven't been one-something since high school. But I looked down at that scale today and, BAM, 199.

A year ago at this time, I weighed 380 pounds. I was 31 and was starting to develop problems prevalent in my family, like diabetes and high blood pressure. My doctor and I talked about it and we decided that I should try for weight loss surgery, a gastric bypass.

Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Alabama presented me with a ton of hoops to jump through, as well as my surgeon's required weight loss. But, by March of this year, I was down fifty pounds (to 330) and scheduled for surgery on the nineteenth. It's all been downhill from there.

Let me just say, I am not a champion of this surgery. I weighed the risks of getting it and not getting it, and I made my decision. I never suggest that anyone needs to get it; they should see for themselves if they want a life-changing, permanent replumbing. It is a personal decision, and I only influenced my own.

Yesterday was my seven month anniversary, and my weight loss has been twice what the average person sees. I have lost 131 pounds in seven months and 181 total from my highest. I work my ass off for the continued weight loss, hiking and biking whenever I get the chance. I realize that if I slip back into those old habits, that I can gain it all back. And life is too good for me ever to go back.

I'm lucky to be surrounded by friends and family who have been as supportive as they have, and I love and thank you all. My old personal goal was 180, but I've been told by my nutritionist that I may be looking at numbers more like 160. I'm only 5'9" and small framed, so that is where I should be.

And thank God for such good insurance where I work.

(Copied from a myspace blog entry on the same date.)

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