Tis the season!!
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, 11-30-2017 at 08:24 PM (1988 Views)
So, I have been so busy I have not had much time to get on here, but I wanted to drop in and give updates.
I am 2 1/2 months out from surgery and I am seeing the changes now. Before I knew in my head that there were changes, but when I looked in the mirror all I saw was the old fat self. Luckily my husband has been very generous at helping with that. He sends me texts periodically of pictures of me from years ago that I didn’t even know he had with a side by side pic of the new me. He did this to show me the differences because he knew I wasn’t seeing any on my own. Big thanks to him. Also, he reminded me that it is time for our annual dinner date/Christmas shopping trip to Nashville. Every year we book a hotel in Nashville, leave our kids with his parents and dress up for a fancy dinner date. Then the next morning we get up and shop for the kids’ Christmas gifts. He reminded me that it was time and the hotel has been booked. He even took me dress shopping. Amazingly, everything I tried on fit!!! I was trying on size 16s. (Formally a size 20 - and struggling to fit that). My husband found a dress and begged me to try it on. It was a size 14 and I told him that I would try it but to not get his hopes up and guess what....It fit perfectly!!! And my husband said it was gorgeous on me. So we bought it! Now I can’t wait for our date.
So Thanksgiving morning, I completed the Turkey Trot in our town. My goal was to do it in under an hour and I did...with 5 minutes to spare!!! Go me!! (Adding pics of me, my sister, and my daughter from that morning...I’m in the pink jacket with white toboggan).
I have also signed up for a martial arts class and kickboxing. They are kicking my tail...but it is so much fun!!! I officially earned and was presented my white belt tonight!!! 😁 I don’t know how other classes do it, but at this one you have to participate in so many classes before you even get your white belt...but I got mine!!!
So much going on but I feel great and am so glad this is my journey to greatness. Since this is the season of Thanks, I wanted to shout out to a few that always take time to respond and give encouragement to people on here. There are several here that are so supportive, but Ann and Christie have been two that seem to stick out to me more. Thank you two for all of your kind words and wisdom. Honestly, let me just say Thank you to everyone here. This site is amazing and I am so glad I found it.
Shew, that was a lot of words!!! Good night!!