The Reward

I haven't given much thought to what I want as a reward for attaining my goal maintenance weight in June. After giving it some thought, I'm back to an original goal I had when I was at maintenance before. I don't like how my thighs carry extra fat. Before I had to try to keep my weight at 102 to get my legs the way I wanted them. The weight was way to difficult to keep and I got a lot of comments about looking too thin. I don't want that gaunt look.

I want to have lipo done after I stablize at my weight. Dick and I talked about it again today. As I already know, I need to be at my goal weight for 6 months before I can consider it. I've known since the day I met Dr. Gelman that he would be my surgeon. I told Robert today. He seemed a little quiet about it. I think he thought he'd be looking at surgery himself and his weight isn't down. And now I'm talking about it.

Reaching my goal weight by June and staying there for 6 months, would put me at December for surgery. But I think I would want to wait until after the holidays. Dick mentioned $5,000 as a cost, that freaks me out a bit. I don't know where we'll get that kind of money. However, I don't want to let that keep me from focusing and aiming for my goals.

After seeing what Kathi is going through right now, makes me a little nervous about what I might really be signing up for with lipo. I just can't think about that right now. I just need to focus on getting to my goal weight.