Onederland!

This morning I woke up at 5:30 am having to pee.  My routine since surgery in June has been, get up and pee..go to the scale.  Go back to bed.  So, mid yawn I am standing in the kitchen on my scale (BTW it is in the kitchen because my bathroom is the size of a closet, welcome to the 1950's built house) freezing my key off and BAM!  the digital display stops on 199.9....what?  No friggin way!  I stepped on that thing 5 times making sure it was right and sure enough...there was that glorious little 1 staring up at me.  I proceeded to do a happy dance (quietly because it was 5:30 am on a Sunday) and go to bed and wait til my other half made a move or grunt so I could shake him into awake and tell him.
     OK, so you may be asking yourself  "You weigh almost 200 pounds and you are happy about that?"  Yes I am!  Considering that before I had gastric bypass on June 4th 2010 I weighed 330 pounds, had really bad plantar factitious in both feet.  Pain in everything on me. I never wore long sleeves or a winter jacket.  I ate horribly, and thought about food all the time.  I was a mess and never even knew it.  I couldn't walk from one side of my little ranch house with getting winded.  The stairs...forget about it.
     It was a year long effort to be approved for surgery.  you don't just wake up one day and schedule an appointment to have it done.  There are nutritionist, dieticians, surgeons, psychiatrists and  sometimes physical therapy to be done before you can even submit a claim to have it done.  And then you have a 50/50 shot of the insurance company saying yes after all that, not to mention the co-pays for all those Doctors and therapists, and then the hospital stay.  No matter what you may have been told, it is in no way shape of form the easy way out for a fat person.
     It is a total change of lifestyle.  And It's not like you can just decide screw it, and go back to old eating habits, or not exercise.  It's do or die after you leave the hospital.  And going back to old habits, not taking vitamins or protein really can kill you.  But the result if you do it right and listen to what the experts tell you, are unreal.  My life is better than I ever could have imagined.  My quality of life is so much more than it was and I never knew it.