6 Month update!
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, 04-25-2018 at 10:23 PM (10437 Views)
Time flies right?!
I'm doing my 6 month update about 10 days early because I m going to be super busy from next week.
What can I tell you... I'm a normal weight, I'm running and crossfitting (which I always did, for people that don't know me - I was the super fit fat person). As some of you know I had already lost 40 kilos over the space of a few years and had my sleeve to sort out the rest. I've lost around 26 kilos or a bit more since having the sleeve and have about 2-ish kilos to go to get to goal weight. To be honest though I don't fuss about goal weight, I just know I am feeling a million dollars not dragging that extra 26 kilos out running!
I think you can probably get all the info you need on here about the surgery, the before, the after, all the questions. It has super helpful for me to have these peeps here helping me out. If you do join in and get something out of it then please consider sticking around for the long haul. It is really valuable to have people who are a few years out available to give advice or support. I know life goes on and gawd you don't have to, but it's nice if you do! I hope you do!
My surgery went well...
I was exhausted for 6 weeks, I whinged a bit about that.
I got back to running and gym 8 weeks later.
I still sometimes eat too fast and get toad froth (thanks Annie g :-)
I still sometimes can't believe that I am smaller than I used to be.
I look hot in a little black dress.
I am workin it.
I am grateful.
I don't eat crap food.
I eat seafood mainly.
I cook like a chef.
I told everyone.
I got a great response. I only hang out with the soundest people, try that too, I highly recommend it.
I like to drive my own bus, you should too.
And really it was a very good thing to do. Yup.
I also left clinical work about 18 months ago. I had been in charge of a birth suite for a few years and I wanted to move on to something else. It is really hard to get out of clinical work. There was a lot of soul searching to get to that point. I think some of my moments may not have been my 'finest' when I was working that out. So anyway, I went back to university and did some odd clinical shifts on the side, caught a few babies, thought about everything.
I think I e-mailed everyone in the world, had many coffees and many chats. I sat on the floor of the shower a lot (while I was in it, not just randomly), thinking 'What if I do all this study and never get a job, maybe I should just do a PhD, don't be stupid that would be shithouse, who even are you, you are not even a boss anymore, shutuppa your whole face'... it went like that.
Well to those people in transitional times I say..... STAY WITH IT. It is really easy to run back to what you know, what is familiar. It's scary to take a chance. It is a bit like food and habits too see.... you could run back to the comfort eating and shamoz easily innit. Don't do it. I just scored myself an amazing job working in Public Health, with Indigenous women here in Australia. I would need a pot of tea with you to tell you actually how amazing this program and job is. I am also as a bonus going to be earning more for 4 days work than I used to earn in charge of a birth suite full time, and I won't have any shifts because its not clinical. I can stay with the organisation for the long term future and move onto more projects and I can still have time for uni and my Public Health MBA.
This just kind of fell in my lap once I had decided to just let it all go and see what happened in life.
Six months in there has been more changes than my weight. I think that is important to note. Your weight is not your worth. You are worthy.
It is always wise to keep on nodding terms with the people you used to be though :-)
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