5 Years Out and Still Maintaining!!!!!!

Sep 04, 2012

Hey, hey, hey.......Just wanted to touch basis, I guess I'm making this a yearly check-in, lol. Once again I am still living and loving life! I am maintaining my weight around 150ish and even though that's not my ideal weight, according to the AMA, I am so loving and enjoying my transformation and journey that was a long time coming! I have no health issues anymore, however I still struggle with the exercise thingy, lol.  Otherwise all is good! I just celebrated my 42nd Birthday and had a blast! I will post some pictures soon....

On the homefront, although bittersweet my marriage did not make it. I say bittersweet because although it was inevitible, I still shared almost half of my life with him. There were alot of things that happened in the years before my weightloss (which probably attributed to my weight gain) and some afterwards, so it was not any one thing in particular it was just enough and time to stop holding on for all the wrong reasons - the children. They are much happier, I am much, much happier, but my ex struggles with it and I only hope and pray that he accept it so that we can move on and be better parents for our children. The reason that I am even sharing this is because I have heard stories of broken marriages because of the surgery and have also been accused of this. What people fail to realize is that just because someone loses weight and feel good about themselves again doesn't mean that they change on the inside, at least not in my case. I am the same person I was before the weight gain, before the marriage and all. There were several counseling tries before the weighloss and after the weighloss those same issues (not with me mind you) were still there and after even MORE counseling they still deteriorated. I gave it 20 years and I refused to waste anymore time on somthing that was only tearing myself and my children down. Life is so good when you have peace of mind and I have finally found that!

Now my mother on the other hand, Lord bless her, she still fusses about some things but they aren't as negative...Like "Your clothes are too tight" is probably the worst I get now, lol. But all in all I still wouldn't do anything differently only sooner. Like they say LIVE...LAUGH...LOVE! That's the key to life and now that I have me again I am embrassing every moment. This surgery has truely giving me my life and sense of self back.....I wish you all the same!

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About Me
Northport, AL
Location
26.1
BMI
RNY
Surgery
01/08/2007
Surgery Date
Jan 02, 2007
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