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Well, here it is 14 months later.  I'm feeling pretty much like a normal person now.  My life doesn't revolve around weight loss surgery anymore....it's just everyday life.  In the beginning, you eat and breathe WLS, very much focused.  Now, it's changed.  I don't ever forget how far  I've come, which is a very good thing.  Today, I make sure I take my meds everyday, still following all the things we learned from the start.  It's second nature now.  I exercise because I like it and because I can do it now.  Best of all is wearing a size 10 ALL THE TIME and not having three different sizes in my closet at any given time.  I blend in the crowd and don't feel self conscious anymore.  Life is good!!!

Just updating my latest lab results.  All is within normal ranges!  Better than my 3 month lab results.  I'm taking Bariatric Fusion and getting great results.  I asked for a copy of the results so I can track my trends.  I think they were surprised that I wanted them.  I also asked what my goal weight should be.  Being seven months "out" my surgeon said I would still lose approximately 15-20 more pounds.  Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think all I had to do was lose 20 pounds!  It was always 80-100!  I'm exercising now on a regular basis...trying to tighten up my skin.  My arms are especially bad and my thighs, well let's just say I won't be wearing shorts any time soon.  I had really heavy arms and the skin doesn't look like it's going to go back.  They are swaying in the breeze.  I'll look really dumb wearing long sleeves in the summer.  It was one of the reasons I got WLS in the first place, so I could go sleeveless.  I might consider getting some plastic surgery when all is said and done...after my face lift!  That comes first.  I have a serious turkey gobble neck going on that I just hate.  Just a continuing journey to a better me!

This is one part of this site that up to this point I haven't utilized.  It's time I do that.  It's to remind me when times get hard or Lord forbid, I start to backslide, of where my head is at.

As many of you have, I too have struggled with my weight my whole life, from being a very fat baby to a big girl teen, to an obese mother and grandmother....always wishing to be "normal".  I've been given this gift of which I am forever grateful.

It still is a struggle at times.  A lot of self talk goes on, to encourage myself as if I were my own best friend.  The self hatred talk is gone.  At this semi late point in my life, I'm learning to truly love  and nuture myself.  During this journey, it has been very enlightening.  Unwrapping the layers of myself, to discover who and what I am made of.  Some of it is very gratifying, alot of it scary, facing my fears and insecurities head on.  I am a work in progress.