One year later....

I had my one year check up with my surgeon, Dr. Evanson, last week. I'm actually 13 months out, but there were some scheduling conflicts, so I just had my one year check up. He is very pleased with my progress and says I'm actually ahead of schedule. I wanted to be under 200 lbs by my one year surgiversary - I'm at 214 - sigh! Close. I'll get there.

Reflection time:

Weight:
4/2/08: 328
Now: 214


BMI:
4/2/08: 54.58 - Morbidly obese
Now: 35.61 - just regular obese - on my way to being just overweight - woohoo!


Health issues:
4/2/08 - was taking medication for high blood pressure, knees crackled like crazy, winded going up the stairs
Now: Blood pressure is normal - no meds, knees survived the mini-marathon, and I can run around in the yard with the kids without being out of breath.


Clothes:
4/2/08: Size 26/28 or xxxl tops. Squeezing into my size 26 pants
Now: xl or size 14/16 tops. Size 18 pants - and I just bought a pair of size 16 capris!


Pictures:

This picture was taken 4/1/08, the night before surgery:


Me and Dr. E at my one year checkup, 5/7/09



Life is good! Only 64 more pounds to go until I hit my goal of 150. I'll post again at the 199 mark!



"You've got to say, I think that if I keep working at this and want it badly enough I can have it. It's called perseverance." ~Lee Iacocca

13.1 Miles!

When I decided to have bariatric surgery, Larry talked me into signing up for Indianapolis' Mini Marathon. The Indy mini is held the first weekend in May every year and is the kickoff to the 500 festival and all of the activities surrounding the Indianapolis 500. It's the largest mini marathon in the country - 35,000 people participate every year. Larry's has done it the past several year and I enthusiastically told him I would sign up. Well, about 2 months ago I was like, "why in the heck did I agree to this?" I have been working out, but hadn't been formally training for the 13.1 mile trek. I was paranoid I wouldn't finish in the 4 hours time frame and would have to get picked up by the slow bus. I definitely would have backed out if it hadn't been for the fact that my Aunt Karon was flying in from California for the mini. How could I drop out when she had bought her plane ticket and was flying all the way here just to do this with us? Well, thank goodness I didn't, because we did it, in 3 hours and 45 minutes, and had a great time! What a sense of accomplishment it was to run across that finish line (we walked the whole thing, but ran the last .25 miles for the photos - ha!). It was me, Larry, Aunt Karon, Erin, and Erin's mom, Donna participating. We met up with Aunt Karon's friend, Paula too. We're doing it again next year and my goal is to run half of it. Me, chubby Sarah, running? Who would have ever thought I would have that goal?



Me and Larry:

I did it!

After picture: Donna, Erin, Larry, Karon, me

Before: me, Larry, Donna, Erin, Karon

"You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be." ~Robert Collier