Good morning Gang! Nice mild day today! I hit the gym for my weight routine and felt pretty good about the exercise but not thrilled with the image looking back at me! Workout clothes are really not made for you to look good while at the gym. Now put me in the locker room getting into my work clothes then everything is good again! Stupid head/mind.

Still waiting for work to ramp up....I sure hope it happens soon. These days of doing nothing are starting to wear on me. I'll get out to the arena at lunch today with my walking buddy, he discovered his jeans don't fit him anymore over the holidays so he's ready to get back to the walks! YAY.

Post Op 2 yr 8+ mos

GF - small banana, 2/3rds tbsp PB

B - spaghetti sauce (meat no noodles)

S - skyr with blueberries

L - chicken caesar salad

S - deli turkey, devilled eggs (2 halves = 1 whole egg)

D - chicken burger, no bun

Have a great day!!

I had surgery January 16, 2018. This past year has been amazing.

I kinda had a two year plan. I am seriously shocked that I lost as quickly as I did, and I'm thrilled it happened that way.

I never thought I would ever be this small. I actually didn't think it was possible.

I don't even know when I last wore a size 8 pair of pants. TBH the last "small" size I recall was in my early teens and that was a 16.

The best advice I can give anyone is to stay focussed, follow the rules and get active. Choose to be healthy and make it happen. The surgery will help you get there. :)

It's not really important as to what we think it means, what do you think it means?

I got nervous but I think everyone does to a degree.

You've been waiting for this and you've prepared yourself for this. You've got this!

I was really worried about complications but I reached out to an Emergency Room Nurse who works in a hospital that is a Bariatric Surgical Centre. I told her what I was doing and asked her how many complications came through Emerg and what were the outcomes. So at her Hospital she said they got maybe 1 per week. Of everything that came through the door, it was all fixable stuff. She encouraged me to carry on and I did.

Now, I am one of the ones to have a complication, but it was fixed quickly and it's been all good ever since.

I've said it a million times, "this is the best gift I could ever have given myself and I only regret not doing it sooner.

Oh yeah...the weird thing I found after surgery was that I couldn't feel liquids or food going into my stomach. There was no feeling at all. It was like it wasn't there. I had no hunger and I just did what I was told. Restriction didn't come until much later. It was weird.

Good Luck!