I’ve met a personal goal!
Good morning to all: As of the 27th of this month, I am now 8 months out from
my RNY surgery. Based on the rate I had been losing weight and my working out at
the gym 3-4 nights a week, I was hoping to lose 100 lbs. by Nov. 27th, when I
will be in Vegas, on a much needed vacation. I’m very happy and excited to say
I have reached that goal 4 weeks early! I’ve been doing the happy dance since I
stepped on the scale yesterday morning!! I’m now in the Century Club. My big
reward to myself is a day at the Bellagio Spa when I’m in Vegas; massage,
facial, body wrap - the whole works! It’s so exciting to be able to go buy
regular size clothes, sit in an airplane seat and not need a seatbelt extender,
to know you can sit on a delicate chair at someone’s house and you’re not going
to make it creak or break…all the things that skinny people take for granted.
Besides the extra weight I had been carrying around for so long, I have severe
arthritis in my spine and knees and never walk up and down stairs; have even
gone so far as walking further down the street to step up the wheelchair ramp,
rather than step up a curb. Last week I was at a resort with a workshop group
(I’m a corporate training manager), and I needed to get to the 2nd floor
quickly. Rather than walk into the building and get to the elevator, I looked
around to make sure noone was watching, in case I couldn’t make it, and just
took the stairs, and made it to the top and continued walking down the hall to
the meeting room, without losing my breath and wanting to die! Okay, I wouldn’t
attempt to do a second flight, but I was able to do a whole flight of stairs for
the first time in probably 10 years! I can’t tell you how good this made me
feel. To try and explain this feeling to some of my skinny friends, they just
don’t understand. My partner, Cathy, understands completely, because she’s seen
me huff and puff through the years, struggling to move, dealing with the pain,
and seeing me not want to go anywhere that involved stairs.
I thank God every day that I was fortunate enough to be able to get this
surgery, as a tool to help me lose this weight, and I thank my support groups,
both the live ones, and the on-line ones (that I don’t post to enough, but I
read every day), that keep me positive and on track every day, to continue in
this daily struggle. I know that without you I would be lost. Thank you.
Charlene
Charlene
Open RNY
2/27/02
Dr. Murr - TGH
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