Nothing Short of a Miracle

Today is the three week anniversary of my weight loss surgery. It has turned out to be a life changing event.

I have lost 44.4 pounds so far, which include the two week pre-op diet.

I am off blood pressure medicine. After years of hypertension and medication, my blood pressure is in the normal range.

Most significant and hardest to quantify, is my mental and emotional outlook on food. I have not experienced hunger since waking from surgery. I am a person who was ruled by his stomach. Food was my passion. Food was my hobby. Food was my master. If there was a cookie on the table, I was going to eat it. If there were twenty cookies on the table, I was going to eat all of them. It wasn't a matter of hunger; it was opportunity and a primeval hitch in my brain. I cannot begin to describe the liberation of being freed from nagging hunger and the compulsion to eat.

It is nothing short of a miracle.