NATURE THE ENERGIZER.... XP

 

ENERGIZING WITH NATURE ... what an awesome way to start my day.... 

Feeling that early morning dew and breeze on my skin and sometimes even rain ... running against the wind and warming up with the flow of my own blood I love love love starting my day with an early morning run ... from running along the nature trail behind my previous homestead 4-5 days a week to currently running 5-6-8 miles along the beach four to five early mornings weekly weather permitting (I love love love to run in the rain but ice and snow are so totally off limits LOL) I am rocking nature in my favor ... and it pays off ... for me that is.....

On Saturday morning I decided to get an early start ...and I was not even thinking sleepwear or daywear ... as I donned these garments and snapped and collaged a picture for my empowerment journal.... "A PICTURE A DAY KEEPS THE POUNDS AND THE INCHES AWAY' hmmm Old Navy Intimates in XS were good enough for my agenda ... for guess what .... I started off my morning energizing with nature....

and was SO TOTALLY comfortable running in my jammies on an early Saturday morning run along the beach from one town to the other and back ... when 6 years and 2 months ago before WLS I could barely make it up a flight of stairs .... after my run I was soooooooooooooo totally energized I just wanted to keep on going and going .... 7 miles and with energy to spare...

So again I used my extra energy in my favor .... as I showered and changed and joined my daughter for an awesome Bokwa taster followed by Zumba Fitness and Zumba Sentao ...

After an early Sunday morning run along the beach followed by Church on Sunday DD invited me to brunch after an awesome Bokwa demo at another gym where she teaches at .... WHAT FUN ... I had invited friends and peers too and we had a ball ... by the time Monday morning came around I was ready for hair play .... and came to work looking like this.,.. on yesterday... which was my day of leisure from running and gym .... there is enough with manic Monday at work so there was enough energy expended there LOL

Today is workday Tuesday .... YUP ... I ran at 4:30 a.m. with the members of my running group ... ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh I have energy ... more energy than ever after ENERGIZING with nature .... my skin is still tingling and the blood is still flowing... with energy to spare .... I got dressed and came to work ... ready to tackle the day... totally ENERGIZED...

As is habit now I took a picture for my empowerment journal "A Picture a Day Keeps the Pounds and the Inches Away" an empiric and goofy tool that has worked for me along the journey .... and in life in general ... I have captured every moment in a picture ... from childbirth to birthdays to every day .... me, my family, my pets ... I have albums dated from the day I thought I conceived my daughter... I love love love pictures... and I do take a picture of my labels too ... they are a reminder of the days that I squeezed into 4-5X and my size 32 breeches were too tight ... when I had to make sure I had needle and thread in my purse in case of a ripped seam .... okay wait ... I still do that and still get ripped seams today LOL ...

So as I sit at my desk today ... on break writing snippets of my journey ... I feel totally energized with nature ... before I could even think of running I walked at a snails pace .... then I walked a little bit faster.... and faster... and when I hit the trail and felt the ground and the grass and the sand and the sun and the breeze ... I felt soooooooooooo totally energized by nature each time .... so little by little ... day by day ... I built strength and endurance ... and one day at a time ... one choice at a time I completely changed my lifestyle and habits prior to WLS  so today I enjoy the benefit of rocking a seamless journey 6 years and 2 months after ... maintaining a total loss of 203 pounds with no regain ... I am not boastful I am grateful... I wanted this and I went after it and I am determined to keep it NO EXCUSES .... this is just the way I want it ... just the way I was before packing on the pounds ... but a lot older and wiser... I am determined to embrace joy and make it happen to me ... every day ... of course misery is out there but I am certainly not letting it in.... 

Break over!!! back to workday Tuesday ... TOTALLY ENERGIZED WITH NATURE ... it works!!! Thanks for allowing me to share ... another goofy thread...

THANKS FOR ALLOWING ME TO SHARE!!!

No regain? That is one thing that I am nervous about because some of the information I have readvsaid that some regain is going to happen. This is such an encouragement and may your succes continues as you enjoy your time with nature.

I have had NO regain after achieving my maintenance weight.  My lowest weight recorded was 111 pounds which was way below my personal ideal goal... I worked very hard with my nutritionist, medical team and personal trainer to achieve my maintenance weight which I have held with no regain after getting to my maintenance goal and I keep my weight within a five pound range fluctuating below but not over my ideal weight by choice.   By increasing my caloric intake working with my nutritionist and my medical team as well as my personal trainer who is my daughter it took me the better part of 3 years to work my way to my ideal maintenance weight as my weight kept dropping below my ideal goal and still has a tendency to drop and make me look gaunt especially when I am going through stressful experiences like the recent death of my sister....

Some rebound does happen to a lot of post ops ... it is up to the individual how to address it though... should I see any rebound I would check my sodium intake, fluid intake, caloric intake and hit the pavement in a RUN ... but that's me...

Don't be nervous ... it is just natural for some rebound to happen as your body settles and new changes in your body take place ... but you have full control of how much and what to do .... the surgery is a partnership .... between you and your tool... you can work it and it will work for you ... unless there is some other physical or mechanical event that impedes this IMO...

You look wonderful and its great to see you moving .  I haven't had  a two hundred pound weight loss so I really cant comment from experience but I did a lot of skin tightening I believe as a result of running and swimming .  Of course i exfoliated as well ... and i like some  sun and swimming at the beach which are  natural exfoliators. 

My point is that I hope that sometime you will feel confident and comfortable enough to lose the clever shapewear ... I hope God allows you to recreate it / rebuild it INSIDE  the beautiful body you've so hard for .  

As far as where MY head is at ...  I'm totally amazed that I can  be happy looking like I just jumped out of a dumpster in my sculpture classes lol.  I guess I finally feel comfortable with natural  self .  

I realize how inflexible ( and slightly ridiculous if I may say that )  I was when i constantly felt I  had to compete with every woman in the room ... now I can compete if I WANT to but i don't HAVE to have all the attention .

 In a way its kind of a relief lol... I can achieve a lot more if im not trying to please  two masters ... on of whom( me )  is an ABSOLUTE PERFECTIONIST lol whose impossible standards the real me can never live up to .

That doesn't mean I've given up on performance or on success .. or that I and others don't recognize that my good looks are an integral part of achieving that success.  It just means I've opened the door to more meaningful  things and true success on GODS terms not my plan ... by being a little less rigid ... 

(((()))) what do Y'All think ?  How has YOUR journey been affected by Ur own internal perfectionistic demands  and how have you matured after Ur surgery ?   

 

 

 

 

 

What clever shapewear? are up talking about my invention with the upside down/downside up hoses BEFORE I had my panniculectomy and modified brachioplasty? Or the summer cut off hoses to accommodate sandals in the summer while holding in loose bits on the legs or thighs or in my case talengiectasia on my left leg? ....That invention was and is an awesome tool that assisted me with all the extra skin PRIOR to my plastic surgeries to remove the excess skin and that I shared right here on OH and several peeps benefited from it including myself.  As a matter of fact after the compression garments post plastic surgery I continued to used them for a few months afterward and they helped a lot ... I am truly very comfortable in my mid 50s body and do not need to recreate it any further .... I opt to use stockings instead of investing in a lower body lift which I may contemplate in the future but not right now....  I love to play in my hair and in that of others so my friend and I used our creativity and started our very own braiding/weaving and beauty supply shop back in 2002 five years before weight loss surgery was a dream.... so today I am just running with the flow and enjoying life with all is ups and downs and turn arounds .... I don't strive to be perfect ... I strive to give it my best shot and to be kind to myself and others always ... that's all ... easy peasy for me ... and it makes me happy...

I think you are referring to this ... an awesome way for compression for the batwings that I used PRIOR to my brachioplasty and removal of my batwings .... just take a pair of Legg's support hoses .... cut out the crotch ... and the toes and pull it over your head via the waistband... pull the waistband below your bra while sticking your arms through the leg ... viola ... batwings gone .... I have not used this for a couple of years now ... but thank you for reminding me of an awesome tool.... my friend who cannot afford brachioplasty find it an awesome tool under her clothing still...

wow I think I understand about the upside downside up hose but please run it by me again.PLEASE

I shared a few goofy threads with these... here is one 

http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/rny/4535938/THIGHPLASTY-UN DER-10-DOLLARS-DONT-OPEN-IF-EASILY-OFFENDED/