I'm home from hospital

Thanks Lori... keep praying... cause the sciatica is really playing up today.

I love being back here with you all!!!!

Em

I was looking through your pictures..and you have lost a lot of weight..you look like a totally different person...i know in some of the pictures you mentioned lines on your face..you look so much younger..and you look so much happier..you just look like a totally different person..its amazing that you lost that much on your own..i think you have said before..but wasn't it just portion control and exercise?

Thankyou.  A few days ago when I saw my flat skin I literally started crying, I started to fully realise how far I have come. Thanks for saying I look younger.  I FEEL younger that's for sure. I'll let you know when I post some before and after surgey images on my profile.

Yes, portion control... exercise... walking/ exercise bike- slowly increased the time as I became fitter- originally all I could manage was 10 minutes walk... never joined a gym, never had a trainer.  Just became slowly more conscious of wanting to eat quality healthy and life giving foods.  I choose to eat treat foods only when they were really good quality ones- eg lush smooth Lindt chocolate rather than discount grainy overly sweet chocolate, homemade cake if visiting a friend rather than some 'average' supermarket cake full of colours and preservatives.

I have always said it is a journey... and you know what I realised in hospital? It is a gradual uphill journey, and sometimes that slope is steeper than other times. The plastics are like the snowy iced peak where you literally claw your way up using picks and ropes towards the summit.  But the further you go up that hill the stronger you become- and better able to continue you become.

How's your journey going?

Em

You seem to always have the things to say that makes so much sense! Well can't wait to see pictures and you are going to get up that hill and you are just a inspiration because we all know that it can be done by just diet and exercise. My journey..well i gave up there for awhile..or really..it got cold outside and i stopped walking.. well i am back to walking and its like when i am exercising and working out i want to make better choices..cause i'm not walking for nothing!! But i take one day at a time and hopefully one day i can say that i have lost over 100lbs..we are all in this together though :) How are you feeling??? Hopefully better with time!

Now that your weather is turning warmer you can make a new focus... get moving and indulge in some life giving healthy goodies too.

Em

Wow! I'm so glad things are going better now! I am so happy for you- that it is ALL OVER and you are only going to get better & better as the days move forward!!! It just sounds like you HAVE gone through the ringer! BIG ((((((higs))))))

Thanks for the big hugs.

Each day I feel slightly better than the last. Thank goodness the sciatica is settling a bit.

Em