NSV: Feeling more and more normal

So, the weight loss itself is slow these days. I admit that I'm not 100% on plan right now. Honestly, it's tax season and I'm under a lot of stress. Just the fact that I've lost and not gained is a win for me.

BUT... I noticed today as I jumped in the van to go hunt down my kid to help him find his lost clarinet (which he swore he had on the way home but must have left somewhere on the sidewalk, we found it in his last class of the day) and I walked into his school... I had to kind of stop for a second in the hallway. Not because I was winded or anything. I felt normal. Like a normal mom walking into a middle school with her kid after hours to track something down. I wasn't worried about embarrassing him (which was something I felt with my own mom) and I wasn't worried about anyone looking at me with "that" look.

More and more, the every day situations is where the big changes are for me. I can sit on the ground with my knees drawn up and my arms around them. I can sit with my legs across my hubby's lap and talk. He can hug me and wrap his arms around me with no belly in the way.

I climbed up the kid's playscape to help him get some stuff out of there. I drug stuff around around the yard to put out for bulk item pick up.

Just these little every day things that most people don't even think about.

What blows my mind is that in 8 pounds or so I'll be a "normal" BMI. Just whoa.

THIS is why I had surgery. It's the every day living stuff that matters. The weight will keep moving slowly. I'm okay with that. But living... that's the cherry on my sundae.

I love this post!!!! Great NSV! Just feeling the confidence to actually LIVE life instead of watching it go by...PRICELESS!

I so love your post!!! I will be happy when I can list all my achievements. Congratulations! !!!

Wonderful!  And frankly, I've been in Austin when it's hot -- I can only imagine that the summers are so different for you now as well. 

We didn't tell my hubby's family in Austin that I had the surgery, since they've seen me lose and gain before.  So I'm hoping to surprise them when we visit at Christmas -- and go on all the walks and hikes that I used to skip because I just couldn't keep up!

And not raise the arm between our airline seats to give me a little extra room!

So glad you are finding such joy in the every day pleasures of just being you!

Heck, last Summer I loved the heat. It was a nice respite from the constant cold that is me. Of course, I was wearing a sweater in the house because my fault all things we should be able to hang meat around here.

Great post! So great to read as I'm getting closer to my day!!!

Thanks for posting that. Those are the all the reasons why I am anxious for my sleeve. So motivating! Congratulations to you :)

Just the little everyday things....just to live. Amen

Great NSV post !!!

I was just happy to tie my shoes this morning........ yours involved a kid and a clarinet.....

frisco

I'm just shocked the little **** hasn't lost it more than twice this year. There's a reason that I put a no deductible insurance rider on the damned thing. That kid would lose his head if it wasn't attached. He's absolutely brilliant, book-wise, but he's got the common sense of a gnat. Ah... ADHD...

Heh, yeah... sitting on the stoop to tie my shoes is pretty awesome too. It's the weird little every day stuff!