Keeping the Flame Going....Snippets of my Life post WLS

Tonight I am heading out for a night of fun with my DH and my friends ... yup... we are a group of old farts in our 50's married over 20+ years .... we are couples keeping the fire/flame going or so we describe ourselves LOL.... We are heading out tonight after I come home from the pool ... we are going to have a wonderful retreat together and we will be back home in the morning ... I packed my overnight bag too ... woot woot it matches my red outfit....can you imagine? just 1 bag??? LOL

I LOVE LOVE COLLAGING MY BEFORE AND AFTERS... my before keeps me right where I want to be in my present...

I am not going to forget how far I have come ... I will always look at my former self and remember how much better life is without 5 co-morbidities and limited mobility ...

 

My week last week looked like this as I rocked my outfits some made by me yup I LOVE TO SEW .... and some purchased ... I wore different outfits to work, to volunteer at the outreach center, to the house of praise and other places all week just like I did at my heaviest weight .... each day I groomed myself and started the day feeling beautiful as I always have.  No matter what size I was I was coiffed and groomed  ... I personally feel and this is my personal opinion only and there are exceptions to this too ...there is no excuse for ANY WOMAN to walk around unkempt whether indoors or especially outdoors unless sick or severely depressed and even so I always found that getting up and taking a shower and combing my hair and applying lip-gloss lifts a depressed mood.... ... there was a point back in the 80's that I had my own dressmaking business ... Martita's Twice as Nice Plus Sizes ... and I custom made and designed gowns for large girls and large women like me.... I DO BELIEVE THE THAT CURE FOR CERTAIN TYPE OF DEPRESSION IS A PERFUMED BATH AND LIP-GLOSS...

I wore suits most of the week this week... in part it was cold and rainy and I did not want to use a coat and in part because I finally sewed something on my new project runway sewing machine my dearest daughter presented me with ... and I wore it to work yesterday...check it out ...

I love love love White House/Black Market Clothes it is my favorite store too... and I love that I fit every Size 0 they have... so today 5-20-2011 I am at work wearing my tiny White House/Black Market jacket with belt in a size 0 ... and I can't wait till tonight after pool ... heading out for a night of fun with DH and five other couples from out oldies keeping the flame going group.

 

I love love love my life post weight loss surgery and even as I loved my life prior to weight loss surgery I certainly did not love and shudder at the remembrance of a body plagued by obesity related illnesses and limited mobility.  I have health and I have motion and I am so totally grateful that I will do nothing to jeopardize my way of life now...

So I packed my overnight bag and me and me my old man are going out on the town LOL .... and I already ran 5 miles first thing this morning and this evening I will swim and tonight I will, wine, dine, dance and fully enjoy.... woot woot.... is it quitting time yet? LOL

 
Make joy happen!!! Don't worry.... be happy!!!! 

You are an amazing inspiration!  I love your photo collages!  I can't wait to do some of my own!!

 Thank you so much foe your encouragement and support ... I bet you will be doing your own collages sooner than you think ... wishing you nothing but the best on your journey..

Marti I just replied to you on SI and now here on the MB. You're going to think I'm a stalker, lol.

I will repeat here what I said there; you are an inspiration and a role model. Even those of us who have not had WLS benefit from your positive attitude and determination to make the most of your life.

Your journal and your picture a day remind me that effort and determination will get us where we want to be. It's so easy to blame life for where we find ourselves, to give up and throw in the towel and chronically play the victim card, but that is so self defeating.

I know you had major complications post op but you have never let those complications stop you, hell you didn't even let them slow you down. You had a goal in mind when you climbed on that operating table and you have never lost sight of it. You work every day to be the best you can be and that is so inspiring and admirable.

Thank you for all that you do and all that you share!

 My beautiful sista Fini ... and I replied to you right on SI too ... thank you so much for been so fair and so supportive of me always .... diversity rock!!! and you my dear are my beautiful sista Fini ALWAYS!

Sounds like sooooo much fun!!!!!! Have a great weekend.

 It was fun too... and my DH walked out with a big prize ... which he insisted on giving to me LOL

oh my goodness your outfits are adorable!!! And you make them yourself? Lucky duck you I have never been able to sew and end up killing any sewing machine I get near lol. Sounds like you have a MARVELOUSLY fun evening planned including the swim!! Can't wait until I can swim again too. And I just want to echo what everyone else said "you are an inspiration" You go girl!

 Thank you my beautiful sista .. yup I make my own patterns and my own designs too ... close to 90% of what I wear I made and it is professionally finished too ... I got lot of hits across my knuckles to get my seams right growing up LOL my mom what a wonderful couturier and taught us well even if we hated it back then... I run almost every day and I swim laps at the pool at LA fitness almost every other day ... we have a pool at home but nothing like a pool where I can swim laps non-stop.  Ohhhhhhhhh keep on trying on the machine it does grow on you.  On our group SI we even shared how to make a duct tape body form for sewing it is what I used and everything fits to the T.

Thank you much for your encouragement and support.

 You look amazing! I love the suit you made. Very nice.