One Year Ago!! **LONG but well worth it!!****

WOW 1 year ago to the minute I believe I was waking up in recovery...

What a year it has been.. Actually the journey started a year and a half ago. I was 320LBS and I thought I was happy!! Boy was I wrong!!  Although the last few months I have hit a rough patch and I have learned that old habits are VERY hard to break!! I am working on fixing the bad in me and getting myself to goal. A new year has begun and I can't be happier to continue my journey. I am have met so many new friends during this process that i am truley blessed!!

I was in a 24/26 pants and a 5Xl (30/32) top this time last year..I am proudly wearing a size 12 pants and a XL top (I still like my big tops maybe after I get some skin cut off I will wear a L)

So my complete weight loss since my 1st phone call to the dr's office is 97LBS!!!  I really wanted the 100 but I know it will come. I had another small fill on Monday so if these damb demons will leave my head I will get there soon!!!  I am satrting slowly to learn again how to eat and what portion fills me. It is so hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that I am satfied after such a small amount of food. I STILL LOVE FOOD!! I will make the progress I need to get to where I need to be!! I just need to put 100% effort into this like I was 1 year ago!!  I would have never thought this would have been so hard but I would do it again in a heartbeat. Do I wish I had bypass?? At times YES!! but than I ask myself why?? Would the bypass have cured my bad habits?? Would the bypass have stopped my mouth from opening?? All the questions I have to why I wish I would have got the bypass have answers of NO. So I am confident I made the right choice!!!

Oh and by the way Dr Roye is thrilled and he said I far surpassed the average % of weight loss in a band patient. I am actually as a Bypass %. 

Thanks to all the freind I have made and for all your advice and support through thid journey. Thanks esppically to Jules who always make you fell like one of her own family memebrs!!!

Thanks so much everyone
Jaime

Congrats and yay for you!!!  You are doing great!

Congratulations Jamie!!!!!

You are doing wonderful.  I always have a reason not to go to a meeting but I will attend the next becuase I really would love to meet everyone.

I passed one year also recently.  I was on vacation so it really wasn't on my mind.  I am so afraid that I gained while I was away (way too much fun in the sun) that I am afraid to get on the scale.  I realize after reading your post that I must be accountable and I will force myself to do this tomorrow.   I have been struggling with many issues since I came back but I have been exercising so I hope the scale won't be so hard on me.

Dr. Roye was also very pleased with my progress and it felt really good to hear that. 

Congratulations again!!! and I hope to meet you soon.

Jen

Congratulations, Jaime!  It was refreshing to read about all the struggles and how you are overcoming them.

Continue with the good work.
Good Luck.
~kelly jo

Jaime ~ Happy Surgiversary!  Amazing what you've accomplished in a year's time. 
Agree with you that it is hard when trying not to fall back into our old habits of eating.  Know this is something I'm still relearning too.
Congratulations on your success and healthy wishes as you continue on this journey!
~ Sandy

 sorry I am so late in responding to this,( I am just never on here anymore) but am THRILLED to see how you are getting on track again!!  You have done amazingly!!!   congrats!!!!