Today is the day! Surgiversary!

Katy- Congratulations on a very successful year!!! Learning to enjoy exercise is one of the indicaters that you're more likey to maintain your losses!!! Good for you!!! I'm still working on that one- but I sure sleep better when I do... CONGRATS on your HUGE loss!!! Holly

Thanks Holly! I never thought I would enjoy exercise! I can't tell you all the dramatic results I have gotten. I may have mentioned it earlier but after adding weight workouts and amping up my walking speed using a heart rate monitor to keep me in the zone in place of my more sedate exercise I had been doing, I can see and feel a huge difference. I have more awareness of my body size. I don't walk around narrow opening anymore. I know I can fit through. I don't walk like a fat girl. I don't walk like I am afraid of falling. I feel the weight I am now and not the old weight I was. I sleep great and I am not as hungry as I was starting to get--could be head hunger issue. I feel way more confident in trying things. My body and emotions feel stronger. But the absolute best thing about consistent exercise has been that I am happy with the way my body looks. After wls, we see some sagging and bagging but working out with weights has caused a definition in my body. I am proud of the way my arms look. I am ready for some backless summer wear. I don't like show my boobs low cut tops but I do like curved tops that show my collar bones and definition on my shoulders. Okay, the stomach isn't flat but the legs are more toned and I appreciate them more--jiggley skin and all. I have finally learned to love my body! Okay, I will stop on the exercise rant, but it you know how it is when you find a good thing, you want to tell everyone! Hugs, Katy

Katy - great post! So happy for all your success and learning!! God bless you as you continue to become all that He designed you to be!!

Thanks Marilyn! I love the way you worded that. What a goal--to be all that God designed me to be! You know that seems plausible to me now but over a year ago, I felt like I was hiding my light (like the kids song) because I felt that I wasn't an effective witness for Christ with my life. Who would want what I had? Now things have changed. I am constantly inviting people to church and just more warm and friendly toward people which allows me the opportunity to be genuinely concerned about their life. Some wls post ops complain about being treated differently. I love it because I know it is that the real me has been revealed and people are responding to the me that doesn't hide or want to be unseen but that reaches out to be connected. So that is my new goal for this next year: to be all HE designed me to be! What possibilities that opens!!!!!!! Wow!!!! Hugs and blessings, Katy