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65 YO Rediscovering Life ... Living It and Loving It Too! - Jacksonville, FL
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January 12, 2014 - Grief and Sadness to:
Rediscovering Life ... Living it and Loving It Too!
Well I suppose I had better get started posting my pre and postoperative experience. I am so very excited about all of this: the upcoming procedure, having access to the RealSelf.com forum and network, my wonderful PS Dr. Timothy Fee and his congenial, professional and eager to help staff. But what I'm most grateful for is the wonderful life I had with my husband of 45 years until 2012. It's because of thus love and the life we shared together that I was finally able to move forward without him at my side. Two years earlier I had found myself sitting in the same spot on our sofa, watching the same tv show on Netflix 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 24 months after the funeral.
I remember walking back to my perch and stopping in my tracks looking up and saying: "God I don't like this at all ... this widow thing. I loved being married. I love being a mom and I'd love to fall in love and be in love again ... please, help me." Then I looked in the mirror and I didn't like what I saw. I had lost 30 lbs, I was gaunt, drawn and very sad and tired in looks. I knew that I needed to change me ... for me and not for a guy. I suppose I was so busy being a 'caregiver' (he had been very ill those last 2 years) I just forgot to take care of me. Well it was time to take care of me for me and those wonderful children, grandchildren and some day great grandchild. Game on!
Rediscovering Life ... Living it and Loving It Too!
Well I suppose I had better get started posting my pre and postoperative experience. I am so very excited about all of this: the upcoming procedure, having access to the RealSelf.com forum and network, my wonderful PS Dr. Timothy Fee and his congenial, professional and eager to help staff. But what I'm most grateful for is the wonderful life I had with my husband of 45 years until 2012. It's because of thus love and the life we shared together that I was finally able to move forward without him at my side. Two years earlier I had found myself sitting in the same spot on our sofa, watching the same tv show on Netflix 24 hours a day, 7 days a week 24 months after the funeral.
I remember walking back to my perch and stopping in my tracks looking up and saying: "God I don't like this at all ... this widow thing. I loved being married. I love being a mom and I'd love to fall in love and be in love again ... please, help me." Then I looked in the mirror and I didn't like what I saw. I had lost 30 lbs, I was gaunt, drawn and very sad and tired in looks. I knew that I needed to change me ... for me and not for a guy. I suppose I was so busy being a 'caregiver' (he had been very ill those last 2 years) I just forgot to take care of me. Well it was time to take care of me for me and those wonderful children, grandchildren and some day great grandchild. Game on!
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UPDATED FROM Jeanie G
4 months pre
Grief and Sadness to: Rediscovering Life ... Living it and Loving It Too!
An Excerpt From My Discovering Me Daily Journal:
January 13 through March 2014 - Game On: Taking Care of Me
I'm 5' 11.5" and 124.5 lbs I looked like an upper case 'L' with two tea bags on my chest. No endurance or muscle tone. It's true of the old adage: "what you don't use you loose". I needed to regain: healthy weight, muscle tone and mass, build endurance, skincare, and oh my ... when did the girls move to another continent. This assessment occurred on January 12, 2014 ... it was on now. I'm all over the internet, but there's more about loosing weight than gaining it. If patience is virtue, I'm going to be the most principled individual ever to live. It took hours of reading Mayo Clinic and WebMD articles and YouFit versus Team Beachbody versus FitnessBlender.com articles and recommendations to get the right jumpstart to a healthier me. But by George I did it. I'm at a 155 lbs and I can walk a 1.5 miles, do sit-ups, crunches, donkey kicks, squats, lunges; working those obliques, triceps, biceps, glutes, quads and calves. But I can work my 'pecs' until the year 2025 ... there is no making the little girls sit-up in class ever again. So now what?
January 13 through March 2014 - Game On: Taking Care of Me
I'm 5' 11.5" and 124.5 lbs I looked like an upper case 'L' with two tea bags on my chest. No endurance or muscle tone. It's true of the old adage: "what you don't use you loose". I needed to regain: healthy weight, muscle tone and mass, build endurance, skincare, and oh my ... when did the girls move to another continent. This assessment occurred on January 12, 2014 ... it was on now. I'm all over the internet, but there's more about loosing weight than gaining it. If patience is virtue, I'm going to be the most principled individual ever to live. It took hours of reading Mayo Clinic and WebMD articles and YouFit versus Team Beachbody versus FitnessBlender.com articles and recommendations to get the right jumpstart to a healthier me. But by George I did it. I'm at a 155 lbs and I can walk a 1.5 miles, do sit-ups, crunches, donkey kicks, squats, lunges; working those obliques, triceps, biceps, glutes, quads and calves. But I can work my 'pecs' until the year 2025 ... there is no making the little girls sit-up in class ever again. So now what?
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April 3, 2015
I am loving your story. I have one two, very different but you might find it interesting.
UPDATED FROM Jeanie G
4 months pre
Grief and Sadness to: Rediscovering Life ... Living it and Loving It Too: So Now What
Excerpt From My Daily Re-Discovering Me Journal
March 2014 - So Now What?
I've regained my healthy weight of 155 lbs, pressing on to about 170 or 175lbs for the muscle mass using my self-styled workout program. Really love fitnessblender.com very easy to use and understand videos. The teambeachbody.com adds the accountability, tracking, a coach and team-member type support. At this point I was already very motivated the addd support is great insurance as well as assurance. I'm eating to gain and maintain, promote healthy skin, hair and muscle growth. I started exercising in a sitting mode now I'm all over the place. Now what about the 'girls' how do I get them back onto this continent. Could plastic surgery be a solution and the right one for me?
March 2014 - So Now What?
I've regained my healthy weight of 155 lbs, pressing on to about 170 or 175lbs for the muscle mass using my self-styled workout program. Really love fitnessblender.com very easy to use and understand videos. The teambeachbody.com adds the accountability, tracking, a coach and team-member type support. At this point I was already very motivated the addd support is great insurance as well as assurance. I'm eating to gain and maintain, promote healthy skin, hair and muscle growth. I started exercising in a sitting mode now I'm all over the place. Now what about the 'girls' how do I get them back onto this continent. Could plastic surgery be a solution and the right one for me?
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