This is the point...

[gowalking 10,790]

..of weight loss surgery. I used to have trouble walking a single block because of the joint pain, extra weight I carried, and the shortness of breath. Today I walked from Manhattan to Brooklyn and back. No pain, no sweating like a pig, no heavy breathing.

[The Candidate 3,215]

You share the most beautiful pictures and insights! Keep posting @@gowalking!

[JustWatchMe 7,117]

Liz, you win the internet today.

This is awesome!

[joatsaint 2,814]

Congrats on such a great NSV!!

[Djmohr 6,965]

Wow! That is absolutely fantastic! Congratulations on your new NSV!

[glitter eyes 1,398]

That is amazing!! It's the experiences like that which make the surgery and hard work so worth it!! Great job love the picture.

[pink dahlia 2,513]

I can't tell from your picture or story how far it was that you walked ( I'm thinking it's quite a ways !) but the fact that you did it on the heels of a busy, active trip to England says quite alot about you !!! Congratulations ! Great job !!!

[SkinnyDown 409]

@@gowalking You are a true inspiration. Thank you for sharing that with us. It's so hard for me to exercise with a knee that needs replacement, and the other knee needs a bone spur removed. Once my BMI is under 40, the surgeon will do it. I try to do what I can, but I cannot wait, until I can just walk for hours again. It's a dream!

Edited August 3, 2015 by carolm1965

[borg/assimilated 576]

Sounds like a very satisfying, enjoyable walk! Kudos!

[Inner Surfer Girl 12,015]

Love it! Congratulations!

[VSGAnn2014 12,992]

Good show, @@gowalking ...

And you are so right: This WAS the point of WLS!

Yesterday I went hiking in the woods. Big elevation gains / losses. It was the first serious hike I've done in years. Boy oh boy, did I love it. NO knee pain. NO unusual huffing and puffing. Absolutely NO exhaustion.

It's like I'm young again. And I'm nearly 70 years old.

Fourteen months ago (two and a half months pre-op) I weighed 90+ pounds more than I do today. I needed knee replacement surgery. I was walking (ahem) under 1,000 steps a day, and every one of those steps was painful. I had been taking Aleve for decades.

Last month, my PCP suggested I stop thinking about having knee surgery. Fine by me. I haven't had an Aleve in 14 months.

My life has turned around completely!

[Stevehud 1,790]

quite Aesome! and you are so right, this is what its about. the fact that i can do a few miles on a treadmill and then walk through a mall a grocery store then a few other stores, all in a row, then go home and cut the grass, and not need an ambulance. its, well its empowering, there are not enough adjectives. Ill be blunt here, it used to take me like two days to get up the energy to have sex even. But now literally, went to the gym rode 10 miles on the bike, walked 2 miles on the treadmill as a cooldown, then went home and ...well you know. then took a shower and went to my guitar lesson, then went out and bought groceries then went and picked up a bunch of new underwear, ( love sales on good compression boxer types- Adidas reebok, and RBX are the best) then walked around the mall looking at clothes, and went home and well lets just say, she was trying on new pants.... and well. one thing led to another... but after that i wasnt dead. Pre surg not only would i not have been able to do that twice..but i sure wouldn't be able to do it and the gym and walk, and still breathe.

It really is such a total life difference. I literally wanted to run outside naked ( no i wouldn't) and yell at the top of my lungs, " Hey i did it twice in one day and I m not dead!

lol

[Jessica Ellison-Correa 66]

i dont know how far that is but it sounds far so kudos to you