Afoot and light hearted... 3 years post WLS I'm really really bad at this personal blogging thing. As part of my role with DriveWorks, I help to contribute to our blog but for some reason my personal blog just gets set aside 'until later' - which doesn't happen but once every year (working on this!) As stated in an earlier blog post, on July 5, 2017 I made the choice to take my life and my health back by choosing to have weight loss surgery (Gastric Sleeve). For almost my entire adult life leading up to that day, I fought a losing battle to become the person I knew I was meant to be. At 242 lbs I ran my very fist half marathon - I had been running for so many years and I was what I used to call the "fittest fat girl" you would ever know. Try as I would, I simply could never get the nutrition side of the equation to balance the physical fitness side. Once I decided to go forward with the surgery, I've never looked back nor have I ever questioned my d...