moore2cl
3 Years and Counting!
Jun 29, 2010
I don't know where to start. So much has happened and in some ways I am in awe that I had my surgery over 3 years ago. I am now living in Virginia Beach and am engaged to a wonderful man. Looking at my life now I can say that I am truly happy and do not regret one bit having had Gastric Bypass Surgery. Every day is a struggle be it with battling my food addiction, battling my twisted self image issues, still feeling like I weigh 250lbs and fearing that every time my weight fluctuates I am going to be the "fat Courtney" again. This entire ordeal has been a complete mind trip to say the least.Some awesome things I've accomplished since surgery:
1. Ran an entire half marathon for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and raised over $5K. It took me 2hrs and 40mins but I did it.
2. I can now say that I have experienced at least once what it feels like to enter a room, bar, social setting, etc. and have a man's head turn to watch me. I used to feel like if any heads turned it was out of disgust at how overweight I was. What a nice difference!
3. I successfully freed myself of toxic relationships both boyfriend and friendships and can now truly appreciate and take people at face value.
4. I have accepted myself for who I am inside. Losing 90lbs forced me to realize that a lot of the issues I had going on in my life were not due to my weight problem. My weight problem was my scape goat and it was very upsetting to be even more depressed and sad at 140lbs when I thought I would be on cloud nine 24/7.
5. I am a nicer person in general and thank God for each day that I wake up and am blessed and can enjoy my new life.
Much love!
Court
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Virginia Beach, VA
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28.5
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Apr 03, 2007
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