2 Year Surgiversary
Today is my 2 year surgiversary! I can NOT believe that it has been 2 years already...as my good friend Darcy asked/mentioned that it seems like just yesterday and forever ago all at the same time!
My DS is now a part of my life as opposed to my entire life now. I do still focus on what I'm eating but it is not the WHOLE focus of my whole world. I make sure that I eat food that tastes good and is generally high in protein and fat...I still make sure that I listen to what my body is telling me...if it says I'm full I stop eating it; if it says I'm hungry, I eat; if it says I'm tired, I nap; if I'm working out and it says I need to stop, I do...I take my vites regularly and have my labs run every 6 months (which I will be having done this week).
My life is so much more full now, the DS has totally saved my life and made it much more worth living. I am getting married in 2.5 months; hope to be pregnant soon there after; am not in pain every single day; I ran/walked a 7 mile race yesterday; I no longer have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, sleep apnea, diabetes, or pain in my joints; I take 3 rx meds (Iron, Sythroid, and Miralax); sex with my fiancee is much more adventurous and fun than it was pre-op (they say that men gain inches when they lose weight - but I SWEAR the same is true of women to a smaller degree...he can be "closer"); I can do whatever I want to do without worrying that I am going to "fit", that I am going to be too tired to fini**** or that I will be in too much pain to do during or afterwards.
I have lost about 154 pounds thus far. I am NOT at my goal weight, even this far out. I am STILL working towards it and ever so slowly losing. I am not sure that I will ever get to where I want to be, which is 174, but I am certainly going to try. If I can't get there I will have to learn to make peace with that b/c I am not going to spend the rest of my life feeling bad about my surgery and myself for not getting to an arbitrary number on the scale. Not everyone loses 100% of their EWL and I might just be one of those people and I want peeps who might also be in the same boat as I am to know that and not feel badly about it. And I know that if I DON'T get there it won't be b/c I didn't try hard enough, b/c I have. I generally eat lower carb and do work out about 2-3 times a week. Knowing what I know now, I wish that I had asked for a shorter common channel...although I am not sure my surgeon would have gone along with that or that it would have made any difference - there is no way to tell now! So I will accept how far I've come with a smile on my face! I mean I've lost over 150 pounds and was able to have a panniculectomy at the beginning of the year on my insurance companies dime! That has made my life SO much more awesome! It is so nice to not have to worry about my panni when buying new clothes and/or working out!!
I AM so happy that I had the DS - it was the best decision I ever made for myself, aside from agreeing to meet my fiancee for a date! I would have the DS yearly if I had to to keep my results!
Marci
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