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Nothing Tastes As Good As Being Thin Feels
Apr 08, 2014
The first time that I heard this adage was at a Weight Watchers meeting about 21 years ago. I lost 103 lbs that year, and gained it all back he following year. I never truly believed in this saying, until I had my RNY surgery. I do believe it now. Nothing in the world feels this good. For the first time in many years, I am free of having to take medications for co-morbidities. Dangerous high blood pressure, pre-diabetes, severe back issues and walking around in a constant food induced fog has given way to an entirely new life. A life full of new activities and experiences. I now feel free of the constant "hold" that food had on me. My life revolves around events, happiness, laughter and love....not around food. Food used to be the main focus in every event in my life. It was such a chore to be overweight. Not only for the extra 114 lbs that I was carrying around, but how it consumed precious hours of my life. Hours and hours of thinking, dreaming, shopping, spending and obsessing about food. I was trapped in a world that was focused on my obsession with food.....I wasn't truly living. As an addict, I will NEVER be able to let my guard down with my addiction. It could still get the better of me, but I will fight it with everything I've got! I am living the good life now, experiencing what it feels like to love exercise and activity. Learning to appreciate the event, not the food. Opening my mind to new experiences....LOVING LIFE!
To walk into a mall, knowing that I can go in just about any store to buy my clothes, is worth this (sometimes) difficult journey. To be able to sit in my car with ease (I have a beautiful Mustang convertible), to have my husband and children wrap their arms all the way around me, to be able to ride everything at amusement parks, not be or feel like the biggest person in the room, to walk up our stairs and not gasp for air, and to feel countless other things that I haven't felt in a very long time is well worth anything that I've had to do for this surgery.
My husband and I are ballroom dancers. One of the songs that we dance to is almost 8 minutes long. It is a fast swing dance. I used to sweat and gasp for air after we were done. My legs and lungs burned. When I dance to that song, I dance with more energy and less effort. I rarely break a sweat...I've conquered it!!! I feel like I'm finally living life....I'm living it with high energy! In hind sight the old adage "nothing tastes as good as being thin feels" has always been true. The difference is that I not only believe it, I live it!