First quarter check in

So here we are three months fifth-teen days into the new year. As predicted and anticipated so much has happened in the course of three short months so who knows what the end of the year is going to look like!

I guess the first thing that is most on my mind is my recent surgery. I had gastric bypass, hernia repair, and bowel resection on March 6th. My weight before this whole thing started was 244. A lifetime high for me. This morning, one week two days out of surgery I weight in at 228. Wow. I started my liquid diet on leap year February 29 so I suppose that will be a nice anniversary to remember. The first three days was hell, primarily due to my body detoxing and giving me a headache. The hunger pains were nothing really much to speak of, frankly for a former semi anorexic/bulimic it was a cake walk. But the headache alone was almost enough to make me pull out of it. Keep in mind that I had almost a year of preparation, nutrition counseling, psych evaluations, monthly meetings and I had to turn in a complete 6 month food diary for my surgeon and It wasn't an easy or quick decision and it sure is a hell of a lot of work afterwards. I will write more on that later. I am only irked about my general weakness and breathing. I get out of breath so quickly just to walk from the couch to the bathroom leaves me gasping.

On the work front, I did what I set out to do and actually achieved my goal one week sooner than what I thought. I am no longer working at my previous job and I will leave that at that :) Lets just say that everything went according to plan.

I found a sweet little car that fits my personality perfectly. A canary yellow 2002 Cavalier all done up. No, its not a new car, but this is the car for me. I seen it, didn't quite have the money to get it immediately but was able to wheel and deal until the title was in my hot little hand.

My daughter is still living with her boyfriend, a situation I am not happy with in general but the house has been so much peaceful, calm, organised, etc that it never was before. I find that the things I used to wake up to and go nuts over that no one would cop to have stopped happening. I hate to say it but it is probably a good thing. My blood pressure has never been so well maintained. My son is still here and is doing a hero's worth of work and contribution. Kudo's to him!

Otherwise, I am just sitting here trying to recover from surgery, Its been harder than I thought and I flip flop between resting more or pushing to go further. Right now a walk around the block would feel like an olympic feat to me.

Goodbye!

Goodbye 2011! You have been one hellova year and I am glad to see you go. You showed me I still had fight left in me and I did what I HAD to do but 2012 is the year I am going to do what I WANT to do.
 Here we go.....!