I am 47 years old. I recently had an epiphany, and I thought, hmmm... what if I live to be one hundred? I am not even halfway through my life! This is way different from what I had been thinking for the last few years. My thoughts have ranged from one extreme to the next:
C'mon, you can do this! Move more, eat less, water, water, water!" 😃 to
"Whatever. You're gross and this is what it is. I'm doomed to be fat forever. Accept it and be happy anyway." 😔
But this is it. I finally did it. I have a "friend" (I'll explain the quotes later) who had a gastric sleeve surgery done last summer and now, nine months later, she looks incredible and even more so, she says she feels incredible. The words that she said that pushed me past the point of no return were:
After having my children, this was the best decision I ever made in my entire life.
Now, when you bring children into it, I'm all ears. I have two children and I basically breathe so I can spend time with them every day. I am absolutely, wholeheartedly, completely and unequivocally obsessed with my kids. Nothing ranks up there with my kids. They are my TOP. But hell, this came a close second? I'm listening!!
(by the way, this is an old pic, but damn', doesn't this pup look cute!😍)
So I went to a surgery seminar (blah blah blah) and I went to see a doctor (more interesting- he showed me a video very similar to the link above), and I am scheduled for surgery August 14th of 2017! Holy crap! So I decided to blog about this.
I hope you enjoy reading my journey. I plan to be very candid but I also made one super important decision. I am NOT in any way planning on sharing numbers with anyone. I don't think this is about a number or a size, it's about a FEELING. My entire life is driven by feelings. So I want to make it perfectly clear that I am not looking to become a certain size or even a certain weight. I want to FEEL better, a LOT better. So that's my goal.
Join me on my journey- cheer me on.. whatever you want! And please, ask questions if you have any- I am typically an open book in life and I plan on being one here as well.
I will share with you one piece of wisdom that I learned from my amazing YOGA teacher: repeat after me: remember, where you are is where you are meant to be. 💜
#namaste, Wendy
