WOW!

Nov 16, 2009

Yep! I am 7 mos post op and down to 166 lbs!! YAY!! I have thrown those fat clothes away cause I never wanna return to that old girl again!! I am actually sharing clothes with my teenage daughters! All except for those dang low cut jeans! That is a cruel joke!! Muffin tops are not attractive! I still gotta long way to go before I can pull those off!! But what I can wear of theirs puts a huge smile on my face!! I have to pinch myself to remind me it is not a dream!!
 

And the gym? Getting better! I can jog!! ME!! JOG!!! Can u believe that one! I could barely walk when I started this!!!I had so many health problems that my doctor actually gave me a wheelchair!! I used it 3 or 4 times. That was the straw that broke the camels back for me! I was WAY to young to accept that I would not only NOT get any better but my quality of life would continue to decrease. He expected me to be in the chair most of the time within a year or 2!

Well, not only am I not using the thing....it is in the basement.....God Willing FOREVER! I have been out dancing a few times with my girlfriends and guess what....I dance circles around my skinny peeps let me tell you! And I am getting noticed....and not only as the fat girl!! Mind you in the back of my mind I am like.....yeah.....you wouldn't give me the time of day a few months ago.....but the attn is nice. I feel pretty! Yes it is an exciting time in my life!!

I still have bouts from time to time with my fibromyalgia but otherwise I am healthy and happy for the first time in years!! Yes Me!!! HEALTHY!!! Not morbidly obese, diabetic, hypertensive, depressed shell of a human being....just Samantha!! Healthy and Happy!!! And coming out of my shell!!! I am not the quiet one...shy and afraid of her own shadow....but assertive and caring less each day what others think of me! Go figure!!!

All I want to say to everyone out there is if I can do it...you can do it! I have had my share of set backs on the way to this happy place. I have had 3 surgeries since June after my accident. It pretty much kept me from any kind of exercise for a few months. But its OK cause I am back up to 4 miles at the gym! I am getting back on track! My nose is healing well so it didn't break me! Whenever you get set back....hang on and don't give up! The scale is moving again. It was temporary! There is light at the end of the tunnel!

If at this point I feel so elated by it all....I cannot imagine what it is going to feel like at 1year....or 18 months! I went from a size 28 to size 14 in jeans! From XXXL to just plain ol' large! I wish I had a crystal ball to see what I am gonna look like at the end of this road! I only have about 15 to goal weight....but I wanna lose more! And I feel like it could happen!! So here goes!! Wish me luck as I do to all of you!

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