7 Months ~ Is is possible???

Sep 24, 2009

Sorry about not posting a blog entry these last few weeks months... summer got busy, fast, and furious.

Can you believe it? Tomorrow is 7 months post op. I am currently down to 168lbs. I can wear a size 10 jeans and a Medium top. At my six month check up Dr. S. said I was doing a great job, I looked great and I would need a tummy tuck. But looking at things I might not. I can kinda live with my tummy... its my breasts I am disappointed about. I am thinking breast lift and slight augmentation.

I completed my first century bike ride this week. We rode for 3 days a total of 265 miles ~ the last day was the whopper 107 miles. I really didn't want to get on my bike that day but I had to. It was hard work but then shouldn't it be!?! I felt so great after finishing. I did it! I sweated, cried and bled a little! And I wouldn't trade that experience for the world. I can't wait to do it again. Training over the summer really let me know what my body needed to keep pounding the pavement and I was glad that I didn't dump or bonk during the ride. I was tried every day and I am still slightly dehydrated. Getting fluids, protein and riding fuel was really hard. I will have to continue to learn what my body needs and how to supply it while riding hard.

I am still losing about 10 pounds a month and at this pace I should hit my goal of 135 by the end of the year... before my one year point.

I am shocked by this whole thing. I mean I knew I would lose weight and I knew it would go fast if I followed what Dr. S said... but man this is wild. I look like a different person, I feel like a different person and people treat me so differently. I am open about my RNY experience now and people don't believe that I was ever heavy. They are shocked to hear I had RNY surgery just within that last year and then they are even more shocked at the amount of weight I have lost. I have talked to many people about my situation... I want to share how this saved my life and how it can save someone else's life. I share the trials, the good, and the sad parts but always that without this tool I would be dying.

The biggest take away that I have is that a good life is hard work... but the hard work gives the best rewards. Nothing is easy... and I am starting to think its shouldn't be.

~Michelle

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