My Story
My name is Lauran and I’m 33. My husband and I have been together for 8 years and married for 5. In our 8 years together, we’ve traveled quite a bit and crossed off some amazing bucket list items together. While dreaming up countless new ones! We’ve been to Spain, Italy, France, Greece, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Grand Canyon. We’ve taken half a dozen cruises, snorkeled, hiked Mayan ruins, and swam with stingrays. We’ve taken a few trips to Vegas, seen cirque du soleil, and taken tons of weekend & camping trips. We’ve done & seen a lot and there’s so much more ahead of us to experience and enjoy.
We have so much to look forward to!
I’m preparing to have weight loss surgery in January 2024. There are a lot of reasons that factor into this decision. It’s by no means and easy decision or an easy path. It will be incredibly challenging and incredibly rewarding! I’m so excited to have more energy, less pain, improved health, and a long and active future. My bucket list is ridiculously robust. I’ve always been a dreamer, ambitious, and head over heels in love with traveling. So as part of this journey reclaiming my health and my best life, I’ve decided to start a blog and share the details of my journey, along with what I’m calling My Skinny Bucket List! It’s chock-full of places to visit, once-in-a-lifetime experiences, and goals to achieve. And many of the bucket list items align with non-scale victories and scale victories that will make them possible! I hope you’ll follow my journey here on my blog and on Instagram where I’ll share the victories, progress, challenges, and heartbreaks and all the joy that comes along with each item we tackle on My Skinny Bucket List. Please subscribe to my email list to be notified of all the updates I share and the highlights of this journey.
I’ve been overweight for as long as I can remember. It never stopped me from living the life I wanted to live, doing what I dreamed of, traveling the world… until it did.
The last handful of years, pain and joint discomfort stops me. Fitting in seats, airplane seats, restaurant booths, and generally the inconvenience of navigating the world in my body… stops me. Exhaustion and fatigue stop me. And I’m constantly frustrated by an energy level that just can’t keep up with my dreams, ideas, and desires. Now I hesitate to sign up for adventures and before we book things I’m careful to research weight limits. I tend to lean toward vacations where I can drive there and don’t have to fly. I used to LOVE flying. Until gradually one day, I began to dread it. Creating this page, I scrolled through 7 years of photos and something became apparent …