Happy Bandiversary To Me!

Fall 2012

It's a big day here on the Johnny blog. Why, you ask? Because May 15, 2014 marked 1 full year since I got the fancy food fighting apparatus implanted in my bloated belly. That makes May 15 my Bandiversary.  So starting this year, and for all subsequent years of my remaining lifetime, I will celebrate this day. Just like we celebrate other important dates in our lives. If you really think about it, the day I got the Lap-Band installed is both an anniversary and akind of birthday all rolled into one. I surely will always mark the day I decided to shun my fat lifestyle. That's the anniversary part. I was also reborn into a new life.  That's the birthday part.

Nov 2013

Feb. 2013

You loyal readers know that I have had my trials and tribulations along this rocky road. We have found out together that it's really hard to predict how much weight one fat ass fellow can lose in any particular period. It's mighty discouraging to stick to your diet plan and lose 3 pounds one week and gain a pound the next. Your body has it's own time schedule and really doesn't give a poop about your goals.  It does what it wants when it wants. Setting weight goals and achieving them in a specific time period is best guess math. A lot of wishing goes into the goal setting process.

I set a lot of goals when I started this.  I had short term goals that motivated me to get to a specific weight for a targeted vacation date. I had goals of going on aforementioned vacation and returning at a specific weight. I had weight goals for Thanksgiving, Christmas and my trade show in early February. I didn't always make those goals, but they kept me focused on my main goal. That was the long term goal I set on May 13 of last year, two days before I went under the knife. My goal was to be at 169 pounds by my 1 year Bandiversary.

Bandiversary May 15, 2014

Here I am just past my Bandiversary. The date I set to hit 169.  Did I get there? No I did not. I weighed in today at 174 pounds. A lousy 5 pounds away from my long term goal. Am I upset?  NO F###ING WAY! This is a full victory! If someone would have told me last May 15  that I would lose 80 pounds in one year I would have either laughed in their face or kissed them. I am de-F-ing-lighted to be at 174 on my Bandiversary.


One other thing I mentioned in that blog post of 5/13./13 is that I would see where I was at in year and decide where I would go from there. Well now I'm here. As I told you previously, I have decided to remain on the calorie counting program and exercise routine that has brought me this far through December 31, 2014. I'll take a look at where I'm at at that time. If I lose another 15 pounds, so be it. That's where I'll start talking maintenance. I'm still committed to the plan. My plan, my way.

So it's time to celebrate!  Wherever you are tonight, raise a glass and toast to my first Bandiversary! I might celebrate a little as well . If you see me around tonight, the drinks are on me. But make mine a Vitamin water Zero. I still have some work to do.

Thanks to all for the support!

We'll talk soon
Johnny

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