6 years of new life - today...
Hey all, thanks for your support! I know how much I scoured these boards in my early days : hours on end - pre op, hours on end post op - looking for someone who was 1 day, 1 week, 1 year - 5 years ahead of me - who made it. (somehow lost 3 years of profile - since 01) Folks who blazed the trail and survived and then were living life with all they had in them. I'd notice so often the farther out, the less they posted & vowed it would never be me.
Guess what --- it IS me! Life has moved on! How awesome to not live life THINKING, consciously THINKING all day long about : eating, not eating, menu-planning, losing, gaining, maintaining...etc.
I'm here to tell you - you'll look back one day and totally be caught off guard that your world revolved around this issue for so long - and you'll try to remember exactly when it stopped - but you probably won't be able to!
More than likely, it came with a series of good choices - one choice at a time - that led you to a healthier lifestyle. In the middle of the good choices was the HUMAN not-best choice or two, but overall you'll come to a place where you look ahead at what's around the bend - & you'll either walk there (briskly! :) or you'll run or bike and your kids will yell - HEY WAIT UP!!! haha!
I'm so proud of you all - each who has gripped life by the horns and is taking it for the best ride possible! You've made life-altering decisions that - in the long run- will help you achieve HEALTH and Life-more abundant!
You guys rock!
WOW!! What an inispiration! I am coming up on my 3 year anniversary the end of September and I am amazed at how fast the time has gone by. I am still not QUITE at goal and am still fighting the battle of "eating, not eating, planning, gaining, maintaining, etc." I am sooooooooo encouraged at the thought that I may one day NOT concentrate on all of that all of the time. Honestly, I cannot imagine that I would ever be able to forget being obese, but maybe....
Again, thanks for the inspiration and all that you do for breast cancer awareness.
Hugs, Piggybabe
Hey, Miss BMI 29.3!!! 3 years of working to lose the excess & learn new habits. Sounds to me like you need a new moniker - something that reflects who you REALLY are 
- that would be a GREAT step in forgetting that you WERE EVER obese - PAST TENSE!!! :) (although little piggies are cute creatures... a bmi of 29.3 is NO Piggie! Babe, maybe - but NO piggie!)
- that would be a GREAT step in forgetting that you WERE EVER obese - PAST TENSE!!! :) (although little piggies are cute creatures... a bmi of 29.3 is NO Piggie! Babe, maybe - but NO piggie!) LOL Thanks for the encouragement. Actually, the name has nothing to do with the former size.
I've been collecting pigs for over 30 years now. I have more than 3,000 in my collection, hence the namd Piggybabe. I just LOVE all of my little piggies!!! They are soooooooooo cute.
People would often be embarrassed to say " I saw a pig the other day and thought of you!" I'd always laugh and say thanks. If someone was standing around that did not know about the collection, they would just be mortified. I'd have to explain and then we would all laugh. So, even though I've lost weight, I think I'll keep the Piggybabe name... And, I was ALWAYS a "babe" even at 300 lbs.!!! :o) Hugs and Hugs, Piggy
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