Hello again my Dear Family and Friends.... my great support system!!! I am alive and doing well. Staying true to my new life-style... my new way of eating. Really it hardly seems new at all... it's just the way I live now! I am out over a year now! December 7th of 2009 was my surgery! So it's been fun looking back to a year ago now, and where I was, how I was doing, etc! Even though I was still new to this and had a few little problems, there was not a time when I was sorry that I had done it! I knew it would be tough at first, but I just needed to get over those hurdles... over those speed bumps! Now.... here I am... I have lost 168 lbs!!! I look back at some of those "before" pictures and almost can't recognize myself. Was that REALLY me??? Yikes! But the worst part of those pictures? Yes, I hated how I looked. I hated the dresses I wore! But.... the worst part was.... in each picture I am smiling, but I was crying on the inside! I think I was happy for the most part, but.... I wasn't truly happy on the inside! Now though, I am happy and smiling on the inside as well as the outside!
I have had a couple of fun things take place in January. The hospital and clinic newsletter did a little medical article on me. Also the local newspaper did an article as well. I will try and post those on here for you to view. It was nice to be able to share my story because there are so many horror stories out there about this surgery. So, it was good to be able to see a successful side of it as well. There really is help out there for those who really need it! My health was completely destroyed, and this surgery.... and my diligence... has completely paid off! I am off of ALL of my medicines! I was a horrible diabetic but my numbers range between 80-87 now! Absolutely perfect! YES!!! My A1c used to be off the chart... over 15. Now my last reading was 5.5 AMAZING!!!! In my wildest dreams, I would never have thought it could be that good, but it is! So.... now you know why I won't go back. This is why I am so hyper-sensitive about this! I ain't going back!
Ok... the other day I had someone ask me about troubles now. Well... I said that the surgery didn't fix everything. I still have money problems, price of gas is too high, never enough time in a day, kids still argue at times, too much snow & cold here in Minnesota, etc, etc, etc!!! So... no, the surgery didn't fix everything. There is still stressful days! I really think that as long as I am alive and breathing... there are going to be issues! There are going to be stressful days and situations! Now... the new thing I am experiencing with this is... when my body is tense, or I am stressed... I cannot eat! I will take a bite or two, and my tummy will kind of "knot-up". A very strange feeling, and it's not a good feeling at all. If I am stressed and try to eat, it will give me a stomach ache! Now, before my surgery, if I was tense or stressed... that is just what I would do, I would eat... no problems at all... the foods went down far too easily! Ha, at the size of me, it looks like I was quite stressed most of the time!!!! Anyway, so that is something that is new, and not so good, but I just work with it. I will take a bite or two and realize I just am not going to be able to eat right now, so I will just wait! Once I've relaxed, then I try again and no problem! So in a way, it is good, I cannot eat if I am stressed! I see that as a positive thing!
I continue to work out at Anytime Fitness here in town. I do resistance training, toning and strength training. I also walk in the halls at the school whenever I can while the kids are in their activities! I walk between 2 or 3 miles! Yes... I can walk 3 miles now! YAY!! I remember starting out there and hardly able to make 1 loop!!! But it was a start, and look where it has taken me!!! So I went from a THIRD OF A MILE.... to 3 miles!! It really CAN be done... one step at a time!
I am still working at the clinic/hospital volunteering with the Bariatric Dept. I am also doing my studies through North Dakota University - Grand Forks. Going for Dietary Manager/Medical Nutrition. I am finding I just don't have enough hours in a day, but I am able to study when the kids go to bed at night! I had thought at first that we could all sit down in the evening and the kids could do their homework, and mom could do hers. Not so! It just doesn't work that way! I can't believe how much reading there is for this course!!!! Wow! Anyway, I am excited about it, and hope I get good grades with it!
Well... all for tonight everyone! Thanks again for your continued support! I appreciate it SOOO much!
Love to all... Eydie
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