Hi all,
I just posted to the Blog section and uploaded a slideshow of my last year! (In case you would like to take a look).
Everyone on here helped me immensely through the 3 month pre-op diet I was on, and the surgery, recovery, and cheering on, afterwards. I thank you all!
I still have nightmares that I will wake up and have rolls of fat along my body. I wake up and realize "Not anymore." The sleeve is a tool and some people think you just get sleeved, and Ba-boom! Instant weight loss; but for me, being active has made the inches go away. I am not an athletic type of gal... never have been. But Zumba has been the thing for me! In addition to walking and some jogging, my zumba classes have kept me in shape. I was ill for a couple weeks a few months ago and could not go to the gym. I really felt it when I went back!
So at this one year mark (as of yesterday), I am happy and healthy and feel GOOD about myself. I have a friend who just had her plastic(s) surgery (arms, abdomen and breast augmentation) a few days ago (she had the sleeve surgery 2 months before me) which she needed to have the skin removed from her abdomen area; and I can luckily say I don't need that done on me. I will never look like I did in my 20s, but I am OK with that part of my body (my bat wing arms on the other hand though...)
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