Check-Up and Profile Update!

Hi yall, Posted this to the Alabama board last night...want to share these feelings with my March-05ers as well! I have not been around much lately - but I'm up and it's almost 3am so here I am! I had a check-up with Dr. DeWitt today and all is well. He is very pleased with my 77 lbs. lost so far, and I finally remembered to talk to him about a "goal weight" for me. He gave me a range of 140-170 lbs. I started at 351, so I sure have a ways to go, but Lordy Lord the distance I have already come so far has improved my life so much. Here is a bit of what I wrote in my profile update about it: "Walking back to my car this afternoon, I realized I was really moving, powering along in a way I never ever could have 77 pounds ago. I am grateful every day for the reprieve I've gotten as a result of WLS. Every morning as I walk into the building where I work, I think about how I used to sit in the car and just dread getting out. How I would stop at the bathroom because it meant sitting down between the car and the office. Whether I had to "go" or not, I sat there...to catch my breath. I can't believe how awful I felt, and how much pain I was in, constantly, 100% of the time. I remember laying in bed at night and feeling my heart pounding in my chest from the exertion of, well, GETTING INTO BED, and I honestly thought I was going to die at times. I never told anybody how much pain I was in, and I never told anybody how deeply afraid I was." And that's the truth. Yall, thanks so much for being here and showing me the way. I am richly blessed! Love, Kat C

Kat, You are doing great! You must feel so wonderful. It is amazing the things I do now without thinking that I would have had to much effort in to before. Beproud of how far you have come and dream about what is to come because it will only get better and better!!! Hugs, Michelle www.active.com/donate/tntwpawv/michelleuschock

Sounds like you've been walking in my shoes. You say it so well. Keep it up. Heidi