Facebook...

100 lbs lost!!!!!!!!!!!! 10 lbs to go to hit my goal!

So...Facebook is AWESOME! In the past week I have "found" or "connected" with so many old friends! I am having such a blast catching up with everyone. I created a group for our high school class of '89 and we are getting started planning our 20 year reunion for next year! 20 years...man just saying that makes me feel so old!

The thing is that right now in my life I feel better physically than I have in almost 15 years! I never kept in touch with anyone from high school or from when I was growing up. One reason was because I got married (first marriage) during my senior year in high school. My husband was 5 years older than me and was not from my hometown so my high school friends didn't really know him...it put a damper on most of my friendships and then we all went our seperate ways during our senior year and afterwards. The other reason I never really tried to stay in touch with anyone was because over the years, as I put on weight, I didn't want anyone to see me looking that way! I wasn't the most popular girl in school but I did have alot of friends and while I wasn't the most beautiful girl in school I was very thin back then (although I of course thought I was fat at that time).

To put on so much weight over the years was very embarrassing for me so I was always glad that not many of my old friends ever saw me over the years as I gained weight. I remember feeling very embarrassed and insecure at our 10 year class reunion...I had put on some weight by then and to me everyone else still looked young and thin, just like in high school. I don't remember talking to very many people at that reunion and Rio and I left pretty early.

I'm sure that everyone else has the same insecurities as I did, but as I continued to put on weight I hated for anyone to see me. Over the past 9 months as I have shed the weight I feel like I have come out of my shell a little bit...infact my brother in law recently said that very thing to me.

It's kind of like a "rebirth" so to speak. And I never imagined that I would be having such a good time finding old friends and classmates on Facebook. It's not that I wouldn't have had fun finding them when I was heavier but it just feels better now that I am not that big anymore. I'm actually excited at the thought of going to my 20 year reunion and seeing everyone. That may sound shallow...but as hard as this journey has been and continues to be, I am so glad I made the choice to have WLS! I would do it again in a heartbeat!

Thanks for stopping by and here's to finding and staying in touch with old friends!