Striving for health

Apr 08, 2009

It sure is frustrating to travel this journey when we start out super morbidly obese.  Our smaller counterparts reach goal in a year or so and the lightweights get down right thin in less time than that.

Some SMO WLSers never reach a "normal" BMI for many different reasons including the weight of excess skin, the inability to be active enough and the body just refusing to let the last excess pounds go.

I think a more realistic goal is a healthy weight.  What weight would be considered heart and joint healthy?  Face it, none of entered into this be beauty queens.  We have always been beautiful.  We want to live long and comfortably and to feel attractive.  One does not have to be tiny to do that, but we do have to be in a healthy range.  What does our surgeon and PCP say?  How does our body feel?  Strive for health and except less than perfection in the dressing room.  We are all winners!

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