1 year

Apr 02, 2014

Wow, what can I say about my year.  What a fantastic journey.  For me it has never been about a number or size to get to; for me my joy has been in having the energy to do such great things.  I was so blessed to have a loving family, husband who loved me completely whatever size, so I can honestly say this journey was about me only; of course, my 2 energetic boys (& the desire to do the most I can to be in their lives for a long long time) were a strong motivation.  The things I was scared of in looking at this surgery:  Losing hair, never being able to eat socially again without getting weird looks, getting to be too skinny.  Funny enough, those things never materialized.  I seem to have plateaued at my lowest weight in my adult life, not skinny by any means...but happily at a size 16.  I am very content.  My bucket list is rapidly filling up:  Walking down the aisle (and loving the photos!), white water rafting, getting back on horseback, fitting comfortably on rides at theme parks, effortlessly climbing the stairs again and again to go on the water slide at our local aquatic center to the delight of my sons, crossing my legs, sitting in a chair without thought as to it's possible collapse, a joy at getting active (love love Zumba) The list goes on and on and seriously give a little inner cheer to this day whenever any of these things happen; I hope that inner cheer never goes away.  Ironically I was one of those people initially that told no one I was having the surgery.  As I began to have to share it with people, and only because I felt I had to for work reasons, I was surrounded with such love and support and later many questions for others wanting the same journey that now I shout it from the rooftops. 

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