4 year Anniversery
OMGosh Margo, you Sweetie! I was so consumed with my mom's 80th birthday this weekend I totally forgot my own rebirthday( had my RNY on her b-day****il I just saw your post from yesterday. Thank-you so much everyone for the wonderful wishes. Life is so much better now. As I say repeatedly , now I am living life. When we went to there Indian caves during the weekend . The last time I was there I sat in the car and looked up at them knowing there was no way I could handle the bizillion steps to get up and see the caves. I looked at them this time and thought I wonder if I can make it? I tried and there was no problem at all !! I felt like that Rocky movie where he had his hands over his head. I am done watching people do things, I am in the mist of the action now. Only arthritis keeps me back on some things.My blood pressure is normal. I don't soak my clothes with sweat when I go out. I can tuck clothes in!.I no longer enter a room hopeing there is at least one person as big as me. I can bend over to pull weeks, over and over. I AM having food problems, who am I kidding, they are Jean problems. I have an appitite again and if I am not careful I find myself eattng all the time, I don't dump on sugar very often and I like my sweets. I am gaining some weight and it is time to take the control that the surgery has done for me. I always said "if only I could lose the weight , then I could keep it off" Ok Jean, put your $$ where your mouth is. I have to stop myself sometimes and say, I am 57 years old, what am I thinking. I just chuckle, when our dear newbies come in and ask" Am I Too Old for this surgery"? This surgery is the fountain of youth !!! I feel better now and can do more than when I was thirty. I still glow thinking of then the doctor came in the examing room after I had my knee replaced and said. "Yes you small gals..................."He put me in the catagory with SMALL GALS. never in my life has the word small been used in the same paragraph with me. happy dance. Honestly ,I sometimes miss the almost daily WOW moments of the first 2 years. But I think I am living a WOW life.. Love you my Sistas and brothers.
JeanB
Yes, Jean, I'm with you. This was the best decision I made in my life, having this surgery ... now, the knee replacement, I'm having second thoughts about that one. But the RNY, wow, that has changed my life in so many ways. I was able to walk all around those Mayan ruins in April and the only thing that slowed me down was the heat (it was brutal for everyone) and my knee (the replacement one). But six years ago, when I was in Cozumel, I didn't even consider going to Tulum ... I knew I couldn't do it ... too much climbing. This year, I did. We are both 4-years out. We both have to watch our food decisions now. I have stabilized in my weight too, and I was always able to eat sweets (greasy foods bothered). I weigh myself constantly now to be sure not to go over 170 pounds (which is my goal weight, or my set weight). Anything over that, and I get worried and buckle down again. I'm sure you do the same.
The small gals remark is great ... my PCP, who didn't know me before WLS, marvels at my progress ... last year, when I had hit my goal, I heard him remark to his nurse outside the office about me: "Can you believe she was 350 pounds?"
We are all living WOW lives. Ain't it grand?
The small gals remark is great ... my PCP, who didn't know me before WLS, marvels at my progress ... last year, when I had hit my goal, I heard him remark to his nurse outside the office about me: "Can you believe she was 350 pounds?"
We are all living WOW lives. Ain't it grand?
CONGRATS JEAN FOR A JOB WELL DONE!!!!
yes this new lease onlife is totally awesome for us!!!! being able to do things instead of watching others have all the fun!!! i also looked around to see if there was anyone the same size as i was or bigger soi didn't make a fool of myself...have fun with your new life and keep on keeping on!!!!!!!
hugs
Aloha my surgery date sister!! We had our surgeries on the same day...only two years apart!! It is so wonderful and encouraging to me to see a sister two years further out than I am still living life to the fullest and rejoicing in her freedom of body day after day.
I, too, find myself just living and not thinking constantly about whether or not I can do something...I just do it. I catch a glimpse of myself in a window as I walk by and have to do a double take......is that really ME??
Thank you for being here for us.....and you ARE an inspiration!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
I, too, find myself just living and not thinking constantly about whether or not I can do something...I just do it. I catch a glimpse of myself in a window as I walk by and have to do a double take......is that really ME??
Thank you for being here for us.....and you ARE an inspiration!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
Congratulations Jean! Your post is so honest and heart warming. I, too at almost 4 years post-op am having some food/Debbie issues. My appetite has returned. Luckily I can't eat like before, but there are days when I am amazed and disgusted by what and how much I can eat. Then, again there are days that I can't eat very much. As they say, it isn't brain surgery, and some old habits die a long, slow death.
Debbie
Debbie