My 1 year anniversary!

I posted this on the VSG board as well, but I wanted to share with my Hoosier peeps!  Hopefully more people will be choosing VSG in the future now that it is being approved by more insurance companies.  

I just wanted to share with everyone my major accomplishment of the past year of losing over 100 pounds - I had a vertical sleeve gastrectomy on 4/24/2010.  It really is the best decision I have ever made and I am so proud of myself for changing my whole life!  I love to exercise now, and my goal is to become a yoga and pilates teacher.  I have some loose skin on my arms and thighs which I hate, but I am hoping it will lessen as I get closer to my goal and in the following year of maintenence.  I am so happy I am healthy, active, and have overcome a lifelong struggle with my difficult relationship with food.  I eat what I like within reason - this surgery taught me what reason is!  I have such a sense of freedom - all that weight was like a prison of my own creation.  One of my cousin's kids weighs exactly the amount of weight I had lost so far...I gave her a piggyback ride on Easter, and feeling how heavy she was on my back, I could not believe I was carrying that around every day.  I thank you all for giving me so much information and hope in the beginning of my weight loss journey, I hope that I can do the same for the new people coming in now!  

Here's my before and after! 
www.obesityhelp.com/myoh/photos/733673/album/Old-me/

 Congrats on your great accomplishment!  Keep up the good work!

Stephanie E

CONGRATULATIONS! I second what severman says KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK!

Thank you!  I really do appreciate the kind words and support!