7 lbs to go

 

It will be two years ago in March that I truly began the journey to getting healthy.  Yes, I had started the process before, but with the emotional distress of Christmas 2007 and gaining 30lbs of weight during that process, and going to Cancun in February of 2008, I knew upon returning that this was a journey I had to commit to. If I didn't, I was going to die young.   I had to commit to exercise and to mindful eating and to not dieting, but changing my eating habits.  By May 19^th, 2008, I needed to be at the weight the doctor told me to be so I could have surgery.  If I didn't drop those 35 lbs by then, I'd have to wait.  I was done with waiting.

 

I was done with putting my life on hold to help others. I was done with putting everyone else's' problems and issues before my own and was finally ready to say that I was important enough to myself to do this. I was ready to live.

 

So now I have 7 lbs to go to reach the 100 lb mark. My goal is to make it by March 1^st.  I think it's doable. It's interesting that when I started my research on gastric banding, the information I read, and the doctors I spoke to said "You'll lose weight faster with gastric bypass".  I was discouraged to take the banding route and I wonder why.  Yes, I know it's slower, but the whole "re-routing of the stomach and intestines" was a lot more intimidating to me than a band. I'm not knocking the surgery, it just wasn't for me.  I just don't understand why doctors would want to push the higher risk surgery.

 

To reward myself, I'm going to go to a surgeon for evaluation to get the extra skin taken off of my stomach. I don't know about all of you, but I lay in bed at night….playing with the skin on my stomach….what's up with that? I can do twisties and bunching with the skin just below the belly button to the pubic region.  I've tried all kinds of things to tighten up this skin, i.e. rub all kinds of different stuff into the skin, massage, of course exercise and stomach crunches, weights.  I just can't seem to get this skin to bounce back.  I don't know that I can afford to have the skin removed either.  Right now with the economy and with the 15% pay cut I've had to take, it just doesn't seem to be in the cards for me…but I still want the evaluation.

 

Ah well,  I'll write when I actually lose the 7 lbs.  In the meantime, Vin Diesel (my StairMachine) and I have been extremely tight and I've upped my resistance level to 5.  I'm determined and it will happen.

 

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