Boy, Time Sure Flies by Fast

So I was talking to my brother-in-law earlier today and he was asking how I am doing with my surgery and as I counted up the pounds I've lost and how many more I have to loose, I realized....Time has FLOWN by since I started this pathway and ESPECIALLY since I had surgery! It seems like literally yesterday when I made the decision to ask my PCM for a bariatric referral and now here I am, 10 months later, and since November 2018, I've lost 88 pounds. Since surgery, I'm down 62 pounds!!! That's 62 pounds in less than 4 months! Y'all, I'm so excited to see what the next 4 months hold for me! I've come so far and as I look back, it's really surreal! I've began running and actually liking it! I have learned what foods are best to fuel my body with! I have learned that the relationship I had with food was detrimental to my overall health and I was going down a dangerous road. I have since changed that relationship with food completely and I hardly ever have any cravings for things that aren't great for me. If you have read any of my earlier entries, you understand how huge that difference is! It seems like it has only been a few weeks since I left the hospital after surgery but it will be 4 months on the 17th!!!!

I am usually the first one to tell myself tomorrow will never come and become a procrastinator! I use to tell myself after the first day in the gym that it would take forever to see results and it wouldn't be worth it because of all the things I would have to deprive myself of. That was my reality. I'm not by any means saying that I'm totally changed now BUT I will say that that thought hasn't crossed my mind since that first week of full activity exercise! I felt so alive, so rejuvenated, so refreshed!! I'm not even kidding, it's a whole new feeling and mindset if you just dedicate 1 full week to a workout routine no matter what it is!! The goal doesn't have to be running a mile every day... make it an achievable goal for your body and your mind! If it's walking 5000 steps around the house because your usual is around 4500..it's still a goal that makes you push yourself a little farther and farther each time and when you reach it, celebrate it! The challenge is to NOT celebrate with a food reward! Celebrate with a new outfit or accessory, maybe even a tattoo? I plan to get a tattoo after I reach my goal as a celebration as well as a tattoo to commemorate my surgery. The point is to get way from food being a go-to for your emotions! Don't use it as a reward, as a therapy, as a coping mechanism, anything that is related to your emotional self! Only use food as a fuel for your body for energy and sustainability! Please commit to this for 1 week and if you don't feel better than you ever have, well then you didn't do it right! Haha.

This is one of the most amazing journeys I have started, second only to my marriage and motherhood! If you need an accountability partner, send me a Facebook message and we'll link up and I will be that for you! If you need guidance because you have no idea where to start, look me up and reach out to me! I'm more than willing to help anyone who needs anything simply because I know it'll be one of the best decisions you've made for yourself! I hope somewhere, someone reading this will really sit down and start to think for the first time, "this is possible for me... I can do this if I set my mind to it... Sure, I can try it for a week, what could it hurt?"

If that is you, you don't have to tell a soul! I just want you to know that you are not alone! I promise you that! I can guarantee you, if you try a better/healthier lifestyle and eating habits for just 1 week, YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!!

Before I go, I have a small prayer request... I will be starting the Bible Study this Friday with some wonderful ladies I've met over the past few months and I would like to ask y'all to pray for God's Word to come through our discussions this week and each week we are able to gather after that. I ask for prayers that if this is God's will, that He would guide more ladies that need a weekly dose of the Word to our little group and that each of us get exactly what we need from each week. Thank y'all!

Much love y'all, until next time!!

Kay

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