debbie H.
On the Right Track, Finally
Apr 11, 2012
Well now we are into April and I have dropped those pesky 5lbs and a few more. I am FINALLY under the 200 lb mark and even when I stray (like over a holiday, or a vacation trip) I DON"T cross over that threshold that seemed to evade me forever. I have also lost the "I just can't do it" attitude. And it just took that fill I had become so fearful of. I still go to Zumba at least 3 times a week, 4 if possible. And I am much happier in my own skin. I feel marvelous! I will continue this journey. What I want to be is more of a size than a weight. When I get to a comfortable 10/12, I will start trying to just maintain. Right now I am comfortably into a 16, and I do have one size 14 pants, BUT, they are stretchy material. I have lost the W"s behind all my sizes and the "2" in front of my weight, and I don't miss them at all. Other than occasional reflux when the late night eating demon rears it's ugly head, I have had no observable ill effect from the surgery, only positive ones. And I KNOW how to control the reflux, I just backslide occasionally. Hopefully, I will not have problems that others have had with the surgery. I know they had the same types of hopes and dreams I did, and theirs were dashed. I am so thankful to be where I am now. I know with as long as it's taken me to get to this point, I would have never gotten here without my lap-band.