Reflections of my banana

Dec 21, 2009

 it's been a while since I've blogged....

September didn't turn out so hot....my banana didn't like anything pain med related so I threw up constantly...for days at a time!  I also got a bad abscess right up under my breast bone and ended up back in the hospital again for 5 days.  They were talking surgery to drain it but 5 days of three different kinds of 24h intravenous antibiotics seemed to do the trick. They sent me home after that and I've been fine ever since!   a rough start to my relationship with sleevie but I wouldn't trade it for the world.  I truly found out that I have so many people who care about me...all my friends came to the hospital and sent flowers and cards...what a lucky girl I am!

Life with sleevie has been eye opening!  who could have thought I'd be satisfied on a small piece of meat or cheese? lol  I love the restriction aspect of this surgery...it's exactly what I needed to succeed.   I'm down 64lbs as of today...an amazing thing to me.  I'm the weight I was at 17....17!!!   that's crazy talk.  I feel good and other than some new lines around my eyes...I think I look ok too.  

Shopping in regular stores is a total thrill...buying size 16 in Reitmans and walking into Old Navy, knowing everything fits there....was a real highlight for me this year.  I think next year will be amazing...getting smaller and smaller!

I'm about to reach a huge milestone...onederland!  just 5lbs to go....and I'm hoping to meet my goal and lose those 5lbs by New Years.  I don't know why but it seems very important to me not to ever be in the 200's again...and start 2010 seeing only 199 on the scale.  After that I think I'll relax a bit and not stress so much on how much I'm losing and concentrate on getting fit.  My friend and neighbour is going to train me..he's got all the equipment in his basement so it should be easy.  I'm doing Wii fit now and have Active on the way....man that's fun!
I still want to lose another 60lbs to get to 140...but I'm feeling flexible at this point, I just want to feel strong and healthy.  

I have a couple more goals to accomplish over the next little while.  I'd like to start riding Coal again in January.  I'm really nervous for some reason..it's been a long time since I was up on him and I worry about hurting myself.  weird when I was never scared before..lol  the second goal is to finish school and get applying to barn manager jobs.  hopefully the end of 2010 will find me employed by some kind of stable!

2009 has been a weird and wonderful year...amazing people in my life, amazing things happening...just a great year overall.  I really can't wait for 2010...me and my banana will rock it!!

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