What a crazy busy fun day it has been! New Years Eve this year!!!!!

I have had a great day! Feeling great that I am getting back to my physical activities and feelings of accoplishments in this area! It was a nice cold clear day with no rain. Sun was shinning although still really cold. However my husband and I went for a few miles walk with our dog. Then we hopped on our bikes for a 5 mile ride to the dog park and the trail that goes past the doggy park. Then back to home and went for a great swim... hot tubbing.. and sauna. I got all of the housework done today and felt so great about the day. Funny, but not really funny... I woke with a head/chest cold in the night and have not felt great in that way today. But I just was able to buckle into the day and know that I was not going to let that get me down. I have not been sick for quite some time, I think since before surgery?! At any rate it has been a while. I used to get sick so easy and when sick I would end up in the hospital. I feel so great to not be like that any longer.
Tomorrow I will be going to the gym before New Years Eve at the Space Needle in Seattle. I will be bussing and walking into the festivities! I am very excited! Last year was the first year that I was able to go and attend festivities in Seattle. I had always wanted to but could never walk in to do them. Last year I walked in there with my walker assisting me. This year I will be walking in there with no assistance!!! I am more than excited for this year!!!

Have a blessed New Year and be safe and enjoy your New Years Eve festivities!

Hugs,
Sherrie

Freedom to live our lives the way we want to, by doing whatever we want, not whatever we can handle, due to size restrictions is a giant gift we give ourselves.

I recall flying an entire day to get to Hawaii and then never going to the beach or getting out of my car because I was too fat to ambulate. I recall never leaving the outside of our "hut" when I was in Tulum because the Euros snickered at me every time I passed them in the restaurant or on the beach. I look back and wonder why I even went???? I stopped flying after a fat gal behind the desk at Southwest challenged me to fit into one seat on my way to California.

Now I go where I want and do what I do. Tonight we are walking around the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago to see the animals by lights. I could not have done that a year ago. I recently went to the city with friends who cabbed all over, I walked and met everyone and usually beat them and felt amazing in the process. Yeah I like what I see when i look in the mirror, but I like my strength and  vitality way more than anything I can see when I look in the mirror.

I am so happy for all of us, Sherrie.

Happy New Year,

Sharon

What an amazing day and how far you have come!!  I had to let you know that you are definitely an inspiration to me and I have been feeling really low lately.  My surgery is next week and I have been having a lot of second thoughts. This week I stayed home from a New Years thing in my hometown with all my friends... partly because I am on the preop diet but partly because I am so uncomfortable with my body and can't fit into many of my clothes.  Seeing someone that has come so far gives me hope that I can do this too.  The preop diet has been so hard and I am questioning whether I can do this... Congratulations on how far you have come and how amazing you look and feel now.  :-)

I recall my difficulties with the pre-op diet. I was not very good with restricting myself,  and felt like I had to eat everything in sight because  i was feeling like I was approaching a funeral for my best friend; food. I was so terrified that when the surgeon opened me up and saw how fat my liver still was, he would know I didn't do the pre-op diet and just sew me back up and walk away disgusted.

Fast forward to the day after my surgery; when the surgeon walked into my hospital room and told me everything went perfectly and he had no problems getting past my liver to see my stomach I was so thankful I promised myself I would have that funeral for my friend, Mr Carbs,  and finally get on the program. That was 100 lbs ago.

You can do this. I promise you if I can do it, anyone can. Something happens to your mind after surgery. Food tastes different, your desires change, and you find a new way. The new way is the right way. The stuff I loved no longer held any interest for me. The stuff I never liked became my favorite things. It's like magic. Then after awhile, you start moving more because you feel better and the chain of events moves you slowly or sometimes very quickly to your goal weight.

Your journey is personal and has begun. You can do this and we are all here to help you.

Happy New Year

 

Sharon

Thanks, Chick.  Yea, I tried starting the preop diet early and did good for a few days, then started eating crazy again. Then I tried to start up again and fell off.... with the holidays and how low I am feeling right now, its been hard.  I started back on Sunday and I'm doing ok. I have my visit with my surgeon tomorrow and my preop visit all in the same afternoon. I haven't really lost anything and I hope she doesn't mind that.  I am supposed to be on liquids only tomorrow.  That will be even more of a challenge!

That makes me feel better hearing about your surgical experience. I am also worried that if I don't do great at the preop stuff, my surgery will be difficult. Thanks for your words of encouragement.  It definitely helps me. Ok, off to go for a walk so I can avoid eating. :-)

((HUGS)) so glad to see you back and living life :) xoxo