Risin' up Straight to the Top! Went the Distance, Now i'm not goona stop!

This last month since my surgery has been trying, exciting, and filled with lots of learning. When I first came home from my surgery I was still healing, trying to be careful and was honestly very nervous at how my new stomach would work. I have been great so far with everything I've tried to eat, my stomach has accepted it all. Now a month later I am more comfortable in knowing the amount of food I can eat during meals and how much water I can drink. I knew it would be a learning curve but I never thought I would have that much fear about even something so basic as drinking water. I am learning to use my sleeve as the tool it is meant to be. Just like others use their metabolism, I use my sleeve.

 I still haven’t wrapped my head around the whole concept of the sleeve just yet, but I’ve been told this is normal and takes time. Every time I get on the scale and it moves down I have to keep reminding myself, that’s a few more pounds gone forever! Every time I move out of a size I have to remind myself I wont be going back to that size. That word, "forever" seems so strange in a weight loss scenario. Everyone always wants it to be forever, but it has never before been attainable. Well now that it is for me I wake up each and every morning ready to face my day. I seriously have had a perma smile on for the last month.

This last week had started out a bit trying because I experienced my first stall on the scale. I kept trucking through and started trying on all my smaller clothes and it seemed I had a new outfit to wear every day, only it didn’t come from a store it came from the back of my closet. It was a truly amazing feeling. I was out and about quite a bit this week, running into people here and there and just about all of them noticed I had lost some weight. It is truly the best compliment you can get! Talk about a confidence and mood booster! I have decided as a celebration of my One Month Post-op to post my current pictures. The picture I am comparing it to is the picture I took just before I started my 6-week pre-op diet on March 1st. I am down a total of 42.5lbs. I honestly don’t think I even know the girl in that first picture.  I know this isn’t always going to be a piece of cake (literally) but I have never felt more optimistic in my life. I’m healing, life is changing and I’m strapped in for the ride! Though the seat belt doesn’t feel so tight anymore.

I just wanted to close this latest blog post with a HUGE thank you! I have never been so speechless in all my life than I was last week when I posted my first blog post. The positive reaction and feedback regarding my journey and my blog is truly overwhelming and I can’t thank you all enough for reading and offering me your support and kind words. Thank you also to everyone who said they have always thought I was beautiful and fabulous at any size. You have no idea how much that means to me and its something I should have had confidence in long before I started loosing weight. I promise to continue being beautiful & fabulous! :) Thanks again!

Now everybody do some air punches with me to the beat of Eye of the Tiger!

Hugs & Glitter

Chanty