Shoes, shoes, and more shoes

<~~~~~ From This

To This ~~~~~~~>

I did it. I threw away all the shoes in the picture to the left and kept only 23 pair. I'm so proud of my new more organized room. I'm having fun doing this and I threw away about 20 pair of shoes. I love my new over the door shoe organizer and it feels good to not bump into a shoe rack in front of my bed. More organizing will follow.

In a Nut Shell

I've just realized that I am one year out from my surgery. Yeah me. I can't believe it's already been a year. I saw my surgeon a couple of days ago and he says I'm doing great! I feel so much better than the day of surgery. I've lost 105 lbs. and even bought my first bathing suit. I even enjoyed checking myself out in the mirror when I tried it on lol.

My goal is 15 to 20 lbs. in the next six months so when I see my surgeon in six months I will be done with the weight loss.

Onto the reason I had the surgery...I wanted to live. Well, tomorrow K is staying at a friends and E will be working late so I'm setting my day to die and doing my dying meditation. I can't wait. I love this book "A Year to Live". It's not just for people who are dying it's for people living as well who really want to feel life.

I'm so excited about this and I can't wait to share more on my last year to live. I've really stuck to doing a chapter a day of this book and it really completes the year I just accomplished.

Walking through it....

So, yes no post for a while but life gets busy.

I've been doing a lot of work on me and it feels great. I've learned recently that to take care of myself isn't a chore but can be rewarding with little daily perks.

For instance, I'm currently reading "A Year to Live" and I read a chapter a day. I have about an hour before the house awakens in the morning and daily I'm reading a chapter while I do some and read some meditation type books. I then do my morning journal writing and you know I'm ready for the day. My point is it used to be a chore to read so when I'm done with this book I will find other books I want to read and day by day I will finish those books instead of struggling to find time to read.

I'm learning as well, with the help of this book and myself to walk through fear. To walk through it makes it so much better. It's odd to do something that scares me but to feel great after is so rewarding.

I'm learning more about life and how great life really can be with the good and the bad.