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Last year at this time, I was able to walk on the treadmill for 20 minutes at about 2.8 mph. Now I can run for more than an hour. What a great feeling. Can't wait to see what I will be able to do in another year.

What can you do that you couldn't do prior to surgery?

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I can do 15 minutes on the elliptical, that's 14 more than 3 months ago. I can hike the Colorado mountains for 12 miles...twice as long as last summer. I can't wait to see where I'll be in 7 more months!

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@@*Lexie*

Before surgery I was a couch potato. Now I'm up for anything. I'm a little over a year out and also excited to see what next year brings.

I celebrated my first birthday after surgery (5months out) By learning to Kayak. If I was at my higher weight I would have sunk the boat. :P

I now Mountain bike! I have not been on a bicycle for a long time. It brings out the kid in me again. Loving it.

Running - Completed the Turkey day 5K, Christmas YMCA 10K, Race for the cure in memory of my mom. I am looking forward to the Idaho wine run this weekend.

I don't know about you. But I feel like I have been given a second chance at life. I don't want to waste it.

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Just before surgery, I started walking, then months after being banded, I started slowly working into running. But because of a permanent collapsed arch, im not allowed to run anymore. But the utter thrill of being able to run, even for a short while , was one of my greatest gifts from WLS.

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I have so much more energy its amazing, my husband said to me that my "soul was smiling more" and that i have a great light around me that encourages others now...

thats more than any loose pants can do!

congrats to all of us!!!

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I haven't been sleeved yet (hopefully soon since my last appt. is August 26th). By I have lost 47+ pounds on my supervised diet. I am able to walk 8000 steps a day which would have been impossible when I started. I can actually clean my house without getting a horrible back ache. It is the little things but I am so glad I have started on this journey and am looking forward to being "on the other side" with all of you!

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There are so many things it may be hard to list them all:

I can chase my husband or grandkids around the house and actually catch them. ( my husband is not happy about this one LOL)

I can sit in an airplane seat without an extender! I have about 6/8 inches of seatbelt left over.

I can sit on the floor with my legs folded under me!

I can walk for miles both outside and on the treadmill.

I can go 30 minutes on the elliptical when before I was lucky to last 5.

I can literally run up the stairs without feeling like I am going to have a heart attack.

I can sleep without a CPap and not feel like I am suffocating in my sleep.< /p>

I can eat any food I want without getting severe reflux.

I can take my blood sugar in the morning and it is always under 90.

There are so many more things that I could like but you get the picture.... For me I just wanted to get healthy and be on this earth longer than my Mom was. She died from complications of Type 2 diabetes and obesity at the age of 66. I did not want to do that to my children, husband and grandchildren.

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This is where I was Jan 2014
And a year later I was training for and did my first 5K

And I just came back from my first assault on a 14,000' mountain in CO.

Yep, a bunch has changed....and I like it. Now don't get me started on dating and relationships...that has really changed but I'll save that for the adult forums. ;-)

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@@OKCPirate You are buff!! So motivating. And I hear you on the adult stuff. ;)

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@@*Lexie* wow amazing work... you should sign up for a marathon or something!!! ;-)

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@@Rovobay You should too!

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