Recently I reached out to a friend, who had vertical sleeve gastrectomy weight loss surgery over two years ago, to get her opinion on whether or not having weight loss surgery (WLS) would be the best option for me to lose weight.
Mind you, she has no degree in weight loss or is a therapist... But I trust her opinion since at one point in her life, she weighed over 400 pounds and is currently 187 pounds.
Even before she was able to express her thoughts on this, I started listing all the reasons I want to do this...
- I need to lose over 60 pounds in order to be at a very comfortable and healthy weight
- I have been working hard at the gym but the scale continues to go climb up instead of down
- I want to be around for my hubby and #MiraclePrincess
- I'm afraid that one day I will look in the mirror and not recognize the person staring back at me.
I let her know that I have made an appointment for a consultation with the weight loss doctor at the hospital that I had my #MiraclePrincess at.
And as I wribe this blog out, I am second guessing myself on whether or not this is the right plan for me.
I know that losing 60 pounds isn't hard to do, if I really take my life and health into my hands and cut the bullshit about making "excuses", I can seriously do it. I have the support system already in place.
I generally like eating healthy and generally like working out.
Going through this drastic surgery is huge... It's just not about losing weight, its about a full on change in my life.
Unlike my friend, I am not on the verge of dying from so many ailments...
She had so many ailments working against her, so for her, it was about saving her life over trying to look cute... I am so proud of her taking that step to get healthy for herself, for her wife, for her family.
She is seriously my inspiration to get healthier... I look to her when I am not in the mood to do anything.
I look into the eyes of my hubby and #MiraclePrincess and know that they are my reasoning behind getting healthier.
But every time I am on the right path on my workout routine, something major happens to me.
The last time it was a cold... The time before that, I messed up my toe and couldn't run/walk... Now this time, I fell down the stairs in my house over two weeks ago and I am currently in a "space" boot until further notice.
Just when I was on a roll with my training, my wonderful hubby purchased an entry for he and I, along with our daughter, to be in a 5k the weekend after our anniversary. I get this wonderful gift the week after he purchased it, which was 5 days after my accident, which was my Valentines Day present. UGH!!
But I am on a mission to get better and do whatever it takes to do so... I have my follow-up with the orthopedic doctor tomorrow afternoon to see how well I am doing but I have a feeling that I'm going to be in this boot for a while because I am feeling a lot of pain in my ankle and heel today.
And after writing in the car for almost 50 minutes about this, I have decided that I am going to cancel my appointment for next Friday.
I am going to sit with my hubby tonight and tell him my thoughts. I want to plan out what we both need to do in order to get to our goals this year.
I'm so glad that I decided to write today.. It had been some time since I've wrote my blog and it actually helps to write things out for myself.
And I am sure that those that read my blog will be surprised that I had even thought of this... Surprise! LOL!! But seriously, I will be blogging more about my weight loss journey, in hopes that it will keep me more accountable to myself.
I hope that this post, along with the others, will not only help me but hope those that might need some encouragement to get their health in order.
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