Category: Weight Loss Surgery

It is finally here! Summer has hit our household. At least, it has kind of hit our household. B has football practice every morning, A is working, David is in the office working 4 days a week, and I am working from home. It doesn’t matter, though, because my official state of mind is:

I say that a little tongue in cheek because the weather and illnesses have kinda kept us from being able to be at the lake much yet, but the few times we have been out have been fabulous.

We do have some big summer plans this year. Most of them revolve around football and track stuff for B. He has multiple camps and is working on qualifying for the AAU Junior Olympics in his field events. A is staying busy taking summer classes and working quite a bit. David got invited to a concert in South Carolina recently to help celebrate EMS Week as the final event in a week long celebration of EMS in South Carolina and I was really thankful to be able to go with him to attend that. He was invited because he is the representative for South Carolina, Georgia, and Tennessee for the NAEMT Board. I have been plugging along with creating things for work, building some new classes, and trying to work ahead for some things for fall and even spring to hopefully have the best semester ever.

In weight loss news, I hit Onederland last week. If you don’t know what that is, here’s a little picture that may help:

I have been in the 1s for size in clothing for a few months, but it was really exciting last week to finally see the number on the scale hit that number for the first time in over 20 years. I haven’t really taken a ton of pictures, not that I don’t want to – I just don’t think about it because of avoiding pictures for so long. But I thought I would post a couple that I have taken.

It’s funny that I don’t really see a difference until i look at pictures. I think it speaks a lot to how our mind plays tricks on us. I feel a huge difference, especially since my gallbladder came out.

Overall, the whole family has been plugging along and trying to steal time to sped with each other as it becomes available. We are walking that road right now of knowing that B is only here for a couple of more years of high school and A is entering her senior year of college. David and I aren’t super sure what empty-nesting will look like, but we are sure that it is coming down the road quickly. Right now, we are just enjoying what we are able to do together and taking everything day by day. There have been a lot of changes in the past year and we do our best to navigate those as gracefully as possible.

Well, it has been a little over a year since I wrote a blog post on this page. It has been a very crazy year, but one that I am coming to terms with and finding my peace. We’ve had several life updates, so let’s see if I can hit all of them in one post.

• A changed her major from BioChemistry to Political Science with a minor in Criminology
• B started high school
• A moved home in January while she looks for an apartment with her friends
• B played football in the fall until he broke his collarbone
• A has been a member of SGA her whole college experience and added EPC (the student group that plans all the events) this semester
• B threw shot and discus for the high school track team
• B also managed to grow at least a foot this year (no lie, I really think it is a foot)
• A did not get taller, but did get a cat that she promptly named Adderall Steve Burnt Toast Addycat (we call her Addy for short)
• I surprised David by going to get a puppy (yes, we are still married)
• Summitt (the new puppy) is a great pyrenees and has gone through the first step of training for the eventual goal of being a therapy dog
• UT beat Bama in football (and we were there)
• Huge changes got made to the program that I am in charge of at work
• David and I sold our part of the gym (not what we wanted to do, but the choice that we were given because we weren’t “all in”)
• We went to Disney right before Christmas
• I took on a few more things to do since I am no longer having to spend every spare minute doing gym stuff
• David rejoined our old CrossFit gym
• I started writing another book
• We have all started to try to achieve some new habits
• I’ve been to California twice
• Our podcast has gotten some new equipment
• David is writing articles for JEMS

I think that is everything, but I’m sure I’m missing something. I guess I will move on to the starting a new journey. No, I am not leaving where I work. This is a new personal journey. I have been to a surgeon and am working on all the steps to have weight loss surgery soon. I’ll be having a Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass, probably around the end of August. I am excited and nervous, but also learning how to not be disappointed that my body won’t give up weight. This is definitely NOT the easy way out of being overweight, but it is the way that I am going to go. I have a lot of reasons behind doing this, and I’ll post those on another post soon. I have questioned whether or not I should go public with what I am doing, but I decided that for me to truly change my mindset about myself, I have to be vulnerable. So, there it is. Laying it out for the whole world. I’m going to try to post more often on here (one of those new habits). This has always been a running commentary of what is in my head when I sit down to write, so don’t expect that to change. Regardless of anything else, this will probably still be a funny place that hopefully makes people feel better.