I was just telling my husband this morning that I haven't been this weight since I was in middle school back in 1983. Actually is was probably before that... I am now in a size 14 jean and I think I was size 16 in 8th grade. It's is just a crying shame that it took me 30 years to get to this point. I keep thinking about all of the diets that I have been on during those 30 years and the small successes that were followed by huge failures which got me up to the 314+ lb range.
I am almost a year out from surgery and as I look back on this past year, it has had some struggles but the band has kept me on the right path which has led me to the 112 lb loss so far. Now the band hasn't been that magic bullet, it's been the band along with LOTS of exercise and LOTS of eating right with a little of eating wrong too along the way but I have been able to work it to my advantage.
I can now sit with my legs crossed, wear my hair up without feeling like my chins hide my neck, sit comfortably on any chair, shop in the Misses section, walk for miles without getting tired as a dog, I can run, walk out of the house without feeling ashamed, can shop at the grocery store without feeling like people are judging me and my cart contents, and most of all - I can now look in a mirror or at pictures of myself without being repulsed.
Goshhh.... what a good year this has been!
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