Well, ironically I forgot this blog even existed until I decided to google easy blogs and came back to blogger and it immediately logged me into this one! hah!
Life has been quite interesting since I last wrote here four years ago, I'm engaged to a man with a daughter that we have shared custody of with his ex-wife and we're getting married this October in Jamaica! We've had a lot of ups and downs, most of them courtesy of his ex-wife and daughter but thankfully he's a great guy!
What spurred my deciding to join the blogging world again? Morbid obesity, that's what. In 30 days I'll be undergoing weight loss surgery, more specifically the vertical gastric sleeve. This surgery is where they remove about 80% of your stomach, leaving you with around a 2-4oz sized stomach. Thankfully at least so far everyone in my life that I have told I'm getting surgery has been supportive or at best not sharing their potential true feelings. I've heard a lot of horror stories about people bashing others for getting surgery and that it's "the easy way out". The weight loss surgery is merely another tool to add to my repertoire. I've gotten a lot of my eating problems under control over the last few years since leaving my ex fiance, and now this tool will help me with the last problem, portion control.
I unfortunately hurt my back several months ago and haven't been able to workout since. I was so excited when we got engaged and started working out 5 days a week to get in shape for the wedding, but I hurt my back while using weights and doing squats. I've had what amounts to physical therapy and still no improvement. I'm hoping that by losing weight with the surgery it'll help me get my back into a usable state so I can go back to living a normal life.
