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July 2002 Almost 1 year from my surgery already, and time has flown by so fast. I remember thinking at the beginning of my journey of looking into WLS that the appointments, the surgery, and being a normal weight seemed a million miles away. I don't even recall the last time I weighed 159. I'm pretty sure I entered into high school a little higher than this. So it's likely the last time I was this weight was in grade school. Amazing. When I ride my bicycle, I look down at my thin legs and am suddenly taken aback because they just don't look like my legs. I still get caught by surprise when walking in the store and passing by a mirror and I see me, because it's not the me I've seen in a mirror for 25 years. When I pick out a size 10 pants, they look to me like they are way too small to fit (although they do). It's hard to explain, but the mental part of this all has been the slowest to come around. I still find myself timid around a group of teens, almost like I am waiting for them to make fun of me. And it doesn't register in my mind that that's what's going on. I have to think about why I feel uneasy, and then I realize it's all the old stuff that's leftover. So it takes a while for the head to adjust! I'm going on vacation with my Honey next week to Cape Cod. We'll be riding our bicycles all over Martha's Vineyard, something I never would have been able to do before. I'm so grateful to be able to do these little things that thin people normally take for granted. |
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