Daily Post--5/26/08

What is the most unexpected thing you have experienced since having weight loss surgery??

My view of myself. I don't see myself as looking any different. I thought I'd be so thrilled that I'd be looking at myself all the time. But instead I still see the old me for the most part.

I thought this would be some huge stressful, unimaginably hard change in my life. And it really hasn't been. Maybe because I was ready, or because I did everything I could to prepare myself. I'm not saying it's all easy, it's just that I thought it would be much, much harder than it's been.

Okay, someone posted that they'd like to see me replying to daily posts again... Sorry I've been so lapse at it lately! The most unexpected thing to happen since my WLS has to be me participating in a marathon! I have NEVER been an athletic person, having been overweight or obese since I was very young. In Feb of this year though, I walked 5 miles as one leg of a relay team that walked in a marathon in Myrtle Beach!

Energy Level...very hightened...always going with my kids..to the park, for a walk, to the beach...i feel like I am living and it feels wonderful.

My mother.....my own mother did not recognize me yesterday, and my son's teacher thought I was his older sister.

I thought my obsession with food would go away. The obsession has just switch focus from constantly thinking about what I can eat next to what I HAVE to eat next. How much work it is to eat enough. I struggle with eating enough calories which puts me low on protein. I cry in the aisles at the grocery store wanting things I know I can't have. When I find a good replacement (like frozen fage instead of ice cream) I beat myself up about it instead of enjoying it. WHY...

I never thought having surgery would affect my taste buds! But it has.....I don't enjoy any food as much as I used to !!!!! Oh well, I am thinner and I like that!

I have found the love of my life - and am enjoying every day - looking forward to tomorrow, and the next day, and the week after that - well, you get it. Pre-WLS, I didn't look forward to much, but now, I'm excited and happy to wake up each morning to see what WONDERFUL things will happen!!

First, like Debi, the fact that I don't see the new me. It gets discouraging but I KNOW that things have changed. Sometimes I just need to remind myself. Secondly, the aches and pains that my body is going through adjusting to each new weight. My legs, hips and shoulder have all been re-adjusting. I guess I thought all the pains would go away; not develop new ones lol but it's all getting better! lori