8 months later and I'm FINALLY working out....and I don't mean walks. I have always taken little walks here and there but I mean working out in the gym longer than a day here and there. I want to cry every time I realize something positive that has come out of my surgery. Ok let me explain...So I decided to finally hit the gym last week and I even paid a personal trainer at my gym after my "AH HA!" moment! So I get on the Eliptical (don't know the spelling) which I was always too scared to get on because I always thought that there was nooooo way I was going to survive 5 min on it. Mind you, I was 390lbs! I wouldn't last 3 min.....I finally gained enough courage to try it despite my fat girl mentally that I wouldn't last and I was sooooo surprised that on my first attempt I did 2.2 miles in 30min and I was not tired!!! Sure I was less energetic than when I got on but I could have kept going and I was so shocked that it was not even difficult. Present day I am down 130lbs and I cannot imagine carrying 130lbs right now and trying to workout yet that's what I was carrying around 8 months ago. I have been going to the gym everyday and its not even hard! I actually enjoy it. 5 months ago I would have not been this enthusiastic because it would have still been hard and I still need to retrain my brain to stop thinking I'm this morbidly obese girl that cant do anything. That's why I'm posting this....don't be afraid to take a leap and do something you might have never been too comfortable doing and just try because you might be pleasantly surprised. I wish I would have started working out a lot sooner but I cant change that now I can just change it from this point forward. We drop weight so fast that our brains don't have enough time to catch up sometimes. I would have never guessed I could jog a mile and not feel like I was going to have a heart attack! Oh and the biggest plus is I have been losing about 1-2 lbs everyday since I've been working out. It really does make a huge difference. I always lost 10lbs out of nowhere but I much rather gradually and consistently lose weight instead of 10lbs every 4 weeks and stall for the next 3. Ok well I just wanted to share my moment of clarity with all of you. I hope this encourages at least 1 person to try something they are STILL scared about post op because like I said you might be pleasantly surprised that your experience will be nothing like you remember, only better.
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