6 Month Pictures

6 Months

WOW, 6 months since surgery!! Where has the time gone? It's been a FABLOUS, WONDERFUL, CRAZY 6 months that is for sure! First I must say that I feel WONDERFUL! I haven't felt this good in a really long time. Not only is my weight and health doing so well it just seems that everything in life is falling right inline where it should be. We close on our house in less then two weeks and then my husband will finally be joining me here in MD (hes in NY finishing up the school year) and I LOVE my job (although I'm a little bored! LOL)!

So in the past 6 months I have learned a lot about my sleeve and my "new" self! I am still a work in progess and I'm sure I will be for a long time but at least I am really working on myself. I still have bad days when it comes to my feelings and food but I have learned so much of how I used food as a tool for my emotions and how I CAN'T do that!

I have started (with the help of an AMAZING friend) to change my "style" as well! It's time for it to be more suited to my personality and WEIGHT of course! LOL I've always been that girl that would just hide behind my clothes. Nothing would be form fitting, everything would hang on me, I wouldn't leave the house without my "hold me ins" on! LOL NOW, I'm buying clothes that FIT me, ones the "hug" my body and there are NO MORE "hold me's"! LOL

I have gone from a size 24 bottoms to a size 12 and a 2X top to a L!!! WOOHOOO!!! I know I am still loosing weight and I'm sure my size will move again but I swear even if it doesn't I'M HAPPY at this size!!!

I have my appt. with the new surgeon (since I moved away from my surgeon) next week so hopefully he'll put in for some labs so I can see where I'm at but I bet everything is going to come back just fine since I feel so Great!!

I can't say it enough, this is one of the BEST Thing I have EVER done in my life!!!!!!!

24,22,20,18,16,14,12

O.M.G. I am wearing a size 12!! WOOHOO!!!  It has been a crazy ride these past 5 3/4 months and I kept telling myself that I was probably going to stop at a 14 because that is as small as I can really remember being in my "adult" life.  I know I was a 12 as an adult but I can't remember it.  I was a 10 when I graduated highschool and I was the "big" girl then!  Shoot, I would seriously freak out if I do get into a 10 or lower now as a 30 something old mom!!!

It's really strange though because I have been this weight since I had my daughter almost 7 years ago.  My lowest weight since she was born was 173 and I was 174.6 today but then I was a size 14 and I was so happy then! LOL

It has really hit me today how far I have come.  Just in looking at the numbers.  I was a 2X top (some could have been a 3) and my biggest pants were a 24 but most of them were 22s.  Now I am a Large top and sometimes I do wonder if some I might fit a Medium and my pants are 12s!!  Crazy Awesome Wonderful I tell ya!

I did have what I see as a set back but it was really more a learning expereince last night.  I ate too fast and/or too much and I got sick :(  My first time getting sick and I was SO UPSET about it.  I tend to get down on myself pretty easy but I have such a GREAT friend to help remind me that it was not a set back or a failure but a learning expereince!!

Earth Day 5K with Milestones

So today was supposed to be my first ever 5K race but a few weeks back I decided to do the Scope it Out with my friends but I was still signed up for todays and it was AWESOME!  First I made a goal for myself to weight 175 by race day! Because of course I could run a race at 175lbs! LOL  Well earlier this week I didn't think I would make it as I was doing not so great :(  Well I DID! YAY!!  The scale was 175.6 this morning! WOOHOO!! 

Go to the 5K and found out there were hills :(  UGH I was not looking forward to this!  It was downhill at the start so that meant uphill at the end! SUCKY SUCK SUCK!!!  BUT, I did pretty good.  Could have done better but am VERY happy with my time of 36:17!! WOOHOO  Thats 1:40 better then the last race where there were NO hills! LOL

All in all it's been a GREAT day and the only thing that could have made it better was if my "real" family (because of course Mark and Sarah are Family) were here but they are having an enjoyable day in NY!

What a difference a year makes!

I was looking back at pictures of myself at Easter in 2010 while still in HI!  I knew I had really started to put weight on but it really didn't hit me until about 7 months ago when I was referred for WLS and then it was like, OMFG I AM FAT!!!  So anyways, the pictures of me at Easter last year and the picture of me Easter this year are a Crazy difference but a GOOD one!!!!

5 months

Well my 5 month mark has come and gone but dang I've been so busy!!  As of this morning (not my "official" weigh in) I was about 176!! WOOHOO!!  I'm wearing size 14 pants (but they are getting bigger and bigger!!) and still a Large top (think I might stay there).  I am as happy as happy can be with how everything has gone but now I just want to work more and more on my physical fitness!  I'm still doing 5Ks here and there and the other day I ran a 2 mile to see what my time was!  (23 mins) Shane and Paxton are here visiting this week so I had Shane take some pictures of me for my 5 month mark and I can't help be go back and forth from my before to nows and I'm still in awe that I really have changed so much!!!!

Goal Size

I have had in my mind all along that I wanted to have my goal size be a size 14.  I have been a size 14 in my adult life before and I think that is an okay size.  It's a very NORMAL size for woman!  Well, I'm there!!  I bought my first pair of 14 jeans last night and they fit but I noticed after about 2 hours of having them on, they are getting loose really quick while wearing them!  I brain is finaly starting to wrap around the idea that I just might end up a smaller size!!  I still have about 30+ pounds to loose to hit goal weight so I am betting I will end up smaller then a 14! WOOHOO!  It's just such an Awesome feeling!