Excuse The Look

First and foremost, excuse the look of my blog!  I'm tring to change the look of it just a bit and, as you can see, I'm having issues.  From what I understand the real problem is with Blogger and there being an issue with it working correctly to be able to change the look of your blog.  It looks like this has been going on for months, so who knows when I will have my blog looking pretty again.  So, please excuse the "mess" that you see currently!

Okay, on to the next subject.....life post VSG.  Life has been pretty decent in my VSG world although October was a CRAZY month weight wise.  I ended up only being down 4 pounds from where I started in the beginning of October.  In the real world (non-VSG world), this loss is okay at best.  In the VSG world, 4 pounds in a month totally sucks!  I have to take some, okay all :-) of the responsibility for it though.  I haven't been watching my diet.  That is, until the last week of October where I lost all of those 4 pounds.  Terrible, I know, but it is what it is and I've moved passed it.  Now, I'm just trying to move forward and focus on what is now and what is in front of me.  It's been "awful" at work from a trying to lose weight perspective with all the Halloween candy, cookies and other goodies around here.  I've eaten a bit of it and consider eating the small amount I have a moderate success.  Hey, considering what I was eating on Halloween last year and for many years before that I should probably call it a HUGE success.  But, for now, I will call it a moderate success.  It wasn't perfection and I think I can only declare a HUGE success had I stayed out of the junk all together.  Besides, the major part of life post VSG is learning to live with food....all kinds of food.  I'm not a big supporter of those, what I call "Food Natzi's" that I see a lot of people have turned into post VSG.  I want to learn to live a healthy lifestyle at a normal weight and I don't want to always live with the diet mentality.  Denying myself all the "bad food" just perpetuates that diet mentality and I'll be darned if I will live like that for the rest of my life.  So, as I move forward in my journey, I am learning all kinds of things.  One of those things is how to balance my eating.  In other words, how to eat healthy and how to include some of the "junk" like a normal sized person.  I still struggle sometimes, but today I am miles away from where I was on June 4, 2012.

~Amy