18 Month Post-Op Update // Bariatric Surgery in Mexico // The End? | My Gastric Bypass Journey 

Yes, absolutely! We should be so proud of everything we've accomplished in this time, it's crazy when you look back and it doesn't feel like that much time has gone by. I hear it keeps going faster and faster the older you get! 😫

@@1FatBeet That is sooooo true!

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much!! You too!

Thank you, and congrats on your surgiversary!!

You are so welcome, and thank YOU!

Thanks a bunch!!

That's an amazing and brave choice, good for you! Congrats on your upcoming surgery and the start of your journey!

Oh my gosh, thank you so much, you're too kind!! I definitely plan to continue monthly updates for sure!

Thank you!!

Congrats on your recent surgery and journey! I would say that the surgery for me hasn't impacted my career directly, but it may have impacted it indirectly. I feel like I am a more confident person now than I was before, and that encompasses more than just directly how I feel about my body. I think I am more firm professionally when necessary and not willing to let people walk all over me. I'm more confident when I talk to my clients and in my line of work I deal with a lot of attorneys and they like to be pushy even if they aren't correct. :P I'm not sure if it's related to the surgery or not at all because I know other things in my life have influenced it, but I also have been striving a lot more to have a better work/life balance. I will walk away, even when I have more things I could be doing for work, because my life and my personal interests are way more important than my job. Maybe some of my newer confidence has helped remind me of that as well. I have energy and motivation to get a lot of things done and participate in my life more, and I'm not going to let my job get in the way of that!

If I've learned anything at all during all of this, it's that everyone seems to have very different experiences. It's SO HARD to not compare ourselves to everyone else's journey but at the same time there are so many factors that influence what happens along the way. I will definitely say it hasn't been an easy process for me, but what I've noticed is that the majority of my struggles have started recently and they're very much mental. Where I've been very fortunate with no physical complications and very successful weight loss, I am really running into a huge barrier now with my mental health and the changes to my personality and priorities. It's really tough on me and the people closest to me when I'm not exactly the same person as I was before. I may go into that deeper in the future but it's too raw to do a video about right now. But it's interesting to see how that is becoming the issue at this point and is leading to more struggles than I had earlier in this journey. Hang in there, we'll support each other through this!