15 months and not counting

Mar 03, 2011

Doing great.   Over a year has passed and I feel "at one" with my sleeve.  My mindset was always that my stomach was too big for me anyway.  So, now I just think of it as the correct size enabling me to eat the smaller amounts I need not to be obese.  I would still be in the "overweight" category if I remember correctly from the last time I looked at a chart.  I am 5'2" and barely a bit more maintaining my weight now for many many months between 147-150.  I am thrilled with this.  I had gotten up to about 220.  I feel 10 years younger and my knees never hurt, etc.  I am enjoying life to the fullest.  I don't know if I'll ever work to get to the 135 or so that would be the "chart" normal.  I feel pretty great right here at a size 12.  I still use a protein powder almost every day for the breakfast portion of my day - mix it with milk, then coffee which I love.   I don't follow "all the rules" .  I could probably loose the last 15 pounds IF I went back to the strict program which is nice to know if I needed to.  I swear I will NEVER let myself get above the weight I am now though.  I feel that is my obligation for having had this surgery.  I would feel I had wasted the whole process, the money, time, team support, and not lived up to my potential

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