Dawn D.

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If anyone reading my blog can come away with anything is how much I want to succeed and that I am confident I will.  I am so lucky to have the backing of a wonderful family Mom, Dad brothers Sister and children.  They have always given me the support and love needed to succeed.  Does this mean that without their backing I would not have been able to succeed or to reach my goals?  I have faith in myself that yes I could, I have faith that I had the will and the confidence to so what I did.   My family is just another blessing in my continued fight.   My children are the rope that keeps me from falling back into the scenario of over eating of eating too much of the wrong thing, one look into their faces and I know why I exist, why I fight the fights I do.  

It isn't about a fight to be a size 2 or be so toned and buff that I look years younger, NO it is a fight to be a healthy person, a person whom can show her children that a healthy lifestyle will keep you going will help fight off those diseases that took me years to fight.    My fight isn't for everyone, and everyoness life is different.  The love they have, the support they have we all live different lives and cannot compare one person with another.  We only know what we can accomplish on our own.  Our fights are different and therefore cannot be compared.

If I can help but one person live a new life and with success I will be a happy person.  As I look back on my journey here I can only imagine what would have happened without this surgery.

They always say that GOD doesn't give us what we can't handle, I have seen much in my Weight loss journey. I will be going on 13 years since I had the surgery, do I regret it NEVER, it changed my life both good and bad but I have learned more about myself in these years then I ever thought possible,

I have gained some of the weight back, it is a daily struggle to keep on the right path.  Every day I look at my children now 20, 17 and 15 and realize that without this surgery I never would have seen them grow up.  I never would have been a part of their lives.   I have always looked at this surgery as a rebirth, i am now running for the first time in my life and working out with weights I would like to lose those last 20 lbs and I will I know I can do it ... and how can I be confident because I have lost the weight before ... and with working out and continuing to eat right I will do it again.  I never set goals before, I was never optimistic.  I dont see this as a failure i see it as an opportunity to grow yet again and be even better this time .