One Year Later

I can't believe it's been a year since I last blogged. I was hoping to be much better at keeping up with it. Maybe this will be a new beginning.

Just over a year ago, on March 16, 2011, I had Gastric Bypass surgery. My last blog was a couple of weeks after and I had lost about 36 pounds. I am pleased to report that just over a year later, I have lost 140 pounds, gone from a size 24 to a size 10, and have more energy than I know what to do with. I've met all my goals, hiked the Ledge Trail on Douglas Mountain, got into a bathing suit in front of my good friends and a number of small goals within the year. Oh yeah, and I am now the happy owner of a Coach purse. Somethng I never would have done for myself, but Scott agreed it would be a reward after I had lost 120 pounds.

With all the changes to my body, Scott and I also made some life decisions. It is recommended that after gastric bypass surgery you wait approximately 2 years before getting pregnant. That would mean that both Scott and I would be in our 40's before we would be able to have children. We decided that we are at a point in our lives that we didn't want to become parents and Scott took himself out of the gene pool. In some ways it's selfish of us not to want to give our parent's grandchildren. But, If we don't want to be parents it wouldn't be a good thing to have them just for that reason. Other couples with children keep telling us that we would be missing so much, but honestly I don't want to be a parent and we have no regrets. We didn't make this decision on a whim, it's something that we have talked about for a couple of years.

In other news, I have discovered LTC's!! But more about that at another time!