One Year. No Regrets!

Hi everyone! So it has been a long time since I have visited my OH crew...you all have crossed my mind lately because I am coming up to my 1 year anniversary this month! I can't believe it has been a year...the time really has flown by. This site helped me TREMENDOUSLY preop and post op up until about 5 months post op. At that time I found myself almost addicted to OH - - I would log on everyday comparing my progress to everyone else's....which is never good. LOL I decided to live life and stop worrying about how everyone else was doing and have me time. I know what my personal goal is and that is all that matters. It has been one year and I have lost 182 lbs! 143 lbs since surgery but 182 total! I still have work to do but I just wanted to let the newbies and preops know that I have no regrets and that having my gastric bypass RNY saved my life and is the best decision I have ever made. Yes, there have been bad days but there have been many, many, more FABULOUS days. I am a work in progress on the inside and out. I am not perfect and I never will be....but I know what I want and who I am. I want to say thank you to everyone's post's and blogs that truly helped me get through the bad times. I have to admit I was nervous when my "one year" approached.....scared that this was the end of my weight loss. I now know and realize that I choose when it ends, no one else.

Take care!
Sara

Congratulations.. Great job. You are doing a great job.
Terri

Congrats, Sara! What a wonderful year! You have done so very well with your tool, and it shows in every way. As I approach my two-year post-op surgiversary end of March, I too realize that there is no such thing as a weight loss "end"--it just takes hard work for final pounds, like every pound lost is what "normal" peeps must exert to lose a pound...sux but hey! We've def lost the overwhelming bulk of our weight and are considered successes.

I'd lost 170 lbs. at my one year mark, and this past year has seen a 23-lb. drop...I'm still going, I do think, as I just hit "Onederland" last month.

Thanks for checking in and sharing; enjoy your anniversary and all the many benefits! Looking great!

~Linda in S FL

Congrats Sara!!  Keep up the good work!

WAY TO GO, SARA!

I just realized that I have been on OH almost a year - three months post surgical.

Wow, 182 is amazing!  Staying positive always helps me, and I try not to compare others to myself, the old "results may vary" says a lot to  me.  Pop on OH more often - be an inspiration to those of us still over 50BMI.

Thanks!
Brenda : )~