I had my surgery one year ago today. I have had a roller coaster of ups and downs since then that have affected my journey.

Durning my hospital stay I found out that I was allergic to morphine and got sick for the first two days after surgery. It was painful and when they found out in the middle of the night the first night they took me off and it took 24 hours to clear it all out of my system. Then I was just fine.

I got home and felt fine and did great. Surgery on Monday stayed in hospital till Wednesday evening, came home and talked to all my kiddos as I run a home daycare, went to another room for the rest of the day to rest. The next morning I got up and played with the kiddos and by Monday of the next week I was running my daycare by myself again.

I did great, made a few mistakes and got sick a few times by eating to fast or something I should not have.

Two months later my teenaged daughter tried to over dose due to bullying at her highschool. She was rushed to the hospital barely alive. She was in the hospital for two weeks and it was a rough two weeks. So I was not following my eating plan as I should of been, as I couldn't.

Then about November I started getting a pain in my side. It would hurt all the time while exercising, I would be running on the treadmill and have to hold my side. I told my bariatric dr in December when I went for my check up and he blew me off. A week later I couldn't handle the pain anymore and went to my family dr and he sent me for a cat scan the same day and they found a stone in my gallbladder the size of a manderain orange. They scheduled surgery for December 29. I had surgery and did great.

I had to stop exercising for two weeks as I healed. Then I started back up and have not had any problems since.

As all that was going on my oldest daughter and grandson moved out and my other daughter was remitted back into the mental health ward of the hospital.

Then it was peaceful for a few months, finally and things were going good. My husband started talking about getting the surgery so he started his journey by going to the seminar. He went for his first check up and to meet the doctor. They did some test because of his family history and found out he had a heart attack the week before. So they sent him for more testing and such. They found out it was a minor one that didn't do any damage(Thank God)!!!

Fast forward to today and it has been one year since I had surgery!!! I am feeling great and went from wearing a size 24, XXL to today wearing a size 10 and a med/large shirt. I have so much more energy and I am so much more mobile. I don't know why I didn't do this earlier. Here are some pictures of before and after.

As you can see my grandson was my wake up call that I needed to do something. He just turned two and I am the only one that can keep up with him

By the way, my stats were:

Seminar weight:265

S W: 240

Today: 167

Height: 5' 3"

Congrats!!! Hope all has settled at home! You rose above your many challenges - that takes a very strong person!!!

Mama mia! You've had quite a year -- and triumphed.

Huge congratulations to you.

Thanks ladies!!! After work I am going to go shopping for a swim suit, yup I am. I want to finally go to the pool again. I think I am ready but know I will be uncomfortable for the first few hours I am there. But it is going to be worth it:) I have missed swimming!!