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 1 month post op vs 3 month post op... WOW

 I'm 266 this morning!! yay!! I dont think i have EVER seen a scale read 266 ever..  thats  45 pounds... 5 more pounds till I hit the 50 pound mark!!!!!! this is exciting...

The girls and I are planning our annual trip to las vegas for new years and I am kinda excited about the prospect of being under 250 lbs I wonder what size that will be? hmmm.. we will just have to wait and see!
my size 24s are starting to fall off..   jeans especially.. I need to invest in some belts.. or maybe some new jeans haha... I have a bunch of size 22s to wear when that fine day comes but they are a bit snug on the waist... but the legs and ass are too big... I think i lost all 45 pounds from my already flat ass and thinner thighs...  I wore a pair of pants today that were a size 28  the waist fit fine and good.. i mean it was big but didnt fall off like some of my 24s do.. but the ass and legs were HUGE..... soooo dumpy...  maybe I will look into altering some of my jeans in the meantime.. we will see...

So I am almost 3 months out from having gastric bypass surgery...  this month I think has been the toughest on me though.. isnt it supposed to get easier not harder?? haha.. I have been having problems with eating too much or too fast or not chewing enough... not sure which one is the culprit because I put alot of THOUGHT into each meal .. size timing etc. so maybe on certain days i get caught up in the moment or something.. i dunno... But i have thrown up  a lot lately. . first its the thick clear liquid for about an hour.. .then the rest of it just comes back up.. full food.. I didnt know that was possible,.. but yah it is..  Thats happened 2 times this month... but oh well Im fine with it.. I just need to find that STOPing point!

So here I am 8 weeks from the day I started weighing myself... I am down 36 pounds... I dont know if that is bad in the scheme of things but i know its definitely not  SUPER GREAT AND FAST!!  Maybe I just need to stop comparing myself to other people who have lost.. stop reading profiles etc.  If  I average 3 pounds a week I will lost this last 100 pounds in  8 or 9 more months.... so by my year I would be at my goal... Ok well when I put it like that.. that sounds fantastic... My  friend jen told me before surgery that in the first few months you will think everything is happening so slow and that you should be SKINNY already... but she said not to worry it will come off.... THis week I was kinda freaking out because in my psych eval before surgery she asked what my goal weight was  I said 180 ( it has now changed to 175 )  and how i picked that number.. I told her i just did.. I didnt have anyone tell me what my  "goal" weight was.. My doctors office is pretty realistic in saying the average person loses60-80% of their excess weight.  and 180  would be more than 80%  and she said i may never make it... so  again me freaking out that i will be over 200 pounds forever....  but yah I think i will make it. People have done it before and I will do it again!

Well I started back to work this week... BOO.. but no not that bad... I cant sit around all day and do nothing but eat and work out.. boring... Starting work hasnt been too hard.. Ive been bringing my lunches and also not really doing anything stimulating since I do not have any clients as of yet. .. The one thing that has annoyed me since starting back to work is apparently the WHOLE store knows the type of surgery I had.. and I definitely  did not tell the WHOLE store!  There are some people in the store that I would NEVER tell.. and most I could care less.... Its just the fact that I did not seek them out to tell them but they are coming up to me telling me they had a friend who had the surgery etc. OH well.. its just annoying..  I did get a lot of compliments and and lot of questions of " are you ok?"  " Is everything going well"  " How are you feeling"  to which my stock reply was  yah greeeeat everything is FIIIIINNNNNEEE.. haha.. I am not going to divulge any info that is not neccesary... all in all i am sorta happy to be back.. but talk to me in a month ok?  Oh Im finally in the 270s WHOOOHOOOO!!!  I am the slowest loser on the planet I think... but Im ok with it.. more time for my skin to shrink right? hahah.






OOOOOH! I also turned 25 this week and was rewarded with an ipod.. yay me!  25 is a scary number though... well see how I get through this..

8-18-06

So here I am 10 days from surgery..... I will have to admit I am a bit nervous.... I just went and looked through WLS memorials and while I am obviously nervous I think I am much more excited than anything... I cant believe I am here 10 days from having this major surgery.... Its amazing... My journey officially started at the end of may or begining of june this year.... Working with lite dimensions and Health Net has been an absolute breeze... I feeel like I am so lucky compared with alot of other people who are trying to get the same surgery.... I cant wait to begin my new life and live even more than I am right now....

8/27/06
SOOOOOO tomorrow is the big day! I cant belive it is here already.. It seems like just yesterday it was june 15th when i first got my "date"... today has been kinda eerie.. Im pretty calm... but then if i start to think about it tears well up in my eyes... Sometimes tears of joy.. othertimes tears of fear and othertimes just tears.. haha.. I know that Dr Chin is a great doctor and that he has a low complication rate and such but still being put under is scary in itself... in 12.5 hours from now i will be at FVRH in pjs waiting to be taken in to the or... WOW.... I think really though i am more anxious about the IV than the surgery itself.... Once im out its cool but The whole point to getting put out I dunno about that.. haha. Im a lil hungry right now.. what i wouldnt do for a taco or ANYTHING really.. but i keep sip sip siping away on my crystal light to try and numb the hunger pains..... anyway I took my measurements today... for preop!

Right Ankle 10.25"
Left Ankle 10"
Right Calf ( 6" from bottom of knee) 17.5"
Left Calf 18"
Right Thigh (8" from top of knee) 27.75"
Left Thigh 28.75"
Hips 59 1/4"
waist 57.25"
Chest 56"
Shoulders 54"
Right arm (7" up from elbow at tip) 15"
Left arm 14"
Right wrist 7"
Left wrist 6.75"
Neck 17"

So what I learned from the measurements is that I am like a big fat box on 2 small legs... my upper body is like the same measurement all the way down.. redic! Oh well thats about to change right? I might have the same measurement all the way down but at least it wont be close to 5 feet!! !YIKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

8/31/06

And I'm baaaack!!!!! Got out of the hospital yesterday and not a minute too soon.. Those beds.. OUCH!!!! I couldnt wait to get out!!!! IM gonna lay it out straight for ya... all those people who say its doesnt hurt it feel s like nothing are liars and theives.. haha.. well maybe not.. I think i came to the conclusion that I am just a really big baby when it comes to pain.. and i dont really like having pain thats all.. hhaha.. When i woke up from surgery I was in shock of sorts.. didnt know where I was or what was going on.... I just WANTED some PAINKILLER!!!! haha.. so they eventually sent me back to my room and with the morphine pump... now yah that morphine pump... hmmmm.. its not all that its cracked up to be either.. I would pass out due to the drugs but my tummy still hurt a lot!!! I Couldnt wait to be put on something else ( liquid vicoden which i am still taking today) But every day the pain gets a lil bit better and I think by this weekend i may not even need the liquid vicoden either. .. Oh when they weighed me before surgery they couldnt find the digital scale so they put us on manual ones and those are usuallly pretty acurate right??? well it said i was 304!!!!!!!!! which is like 18 lbs lower than my initial consult! crazy huh? and i didnt even have to do a pre op diet so i pretty much ate anything in my face.. haha. I think i may make a trip to target today to get a scale even though i didnt really want one.. I kind of do now... Not to get obsessed with it.. but just so I know its been one week ive lost X amt of weight... that sort of thing... ok well until next time!

9/3/06
So just a lil update here.. Im doing ok with everything getting in 64 oz of water and at least 40 grams of protein a day. My surgeon suggests 40 for the first 2-3 week while in liquids then up it up to what it should really be when purees start. My concern right now is I have numbness between a couple of my incisions which kinda freaks me out.. but i guess its all normal... its a lil less numb today so thats great! haha. I bought a scale... and yes I have been on it every day.. I hate personal scales theyre so inaccurate.. but then again my hospital one wasnt so acurate either.. haha. oh well I guess I will just have to average it out. But anyway Im only counting weights on mondays or maybe thursdays .. yah prolly thursdays.. since thats when I got the 311 weight off my own scale. Since im kind of a freak im also a lil worried about blood clots and infection cuz the LAST thing i want is to have to go back to the hospital!!!!!

9/7/06





So I decided that I am weighing myself on thursdays because thats when I bought my home scale and so I have some sort of regularity in my weights... I am however weighing myself every day.. but i will not let it get to me unless it is a thursday.. haha. THURSDAYS ARE WHAT MATTER! so anyway I have lost 10 lbs since last thursday thats good right? I was afraid I was losing so slow but im not gonna be pissed about 10 lbs in one week!!!! Thats awesome... and im feeling great too minus the lil numbness and a pain that feels like a pulled muscle on my left side.. everything is going well and I am very happy!!! October 9th is gonna be here waay tooooo soon!!!!!! ( thats when I start work again :( )

9/14/06





Um Yah I hate! my personal scale... I should probably just return it to Target and be done with it but i cant... Like i said earlier Thursdays are the days for me to weigh in... WELL I weighed myself last night to see what kind of progress I have done... and I was at 292 294 something like that.... I wake up this morning and Im at 296 298... WTF!!!!!! OH well I did it like 10 times and it averaged 296 so Im gonna stick with that.. but that means Ive only lost like 6 pounds this week... But then again when was the last time I lost 6 pounds in one week.. I dont think i ever even did that with weight watchers.. OK so Im not exercising yet.. I know thats bad.. but i cant seem to get up to do it.. Its like I have no energy.... I dont know if its depression or what but hopefully i snap out of it and QUICK!!! Oh yah my friend nicole had surgery monday.. I wasnt able to go down to see her because Im still not supposed to drive... but I as far as I know everything went well.. and now we are surgery buddies together.... she and i were exactly 2 weeks apart on surgery!


9/21/06

So apparently my body only likes to lose 6 pounds a week... which is fine great fantastic.. whatnot. Im at 290 whoohoo~

9/28/06

SO this whole week I have been worried about NOT losing... I have been checking myself everyday and the scale did NOT want to move from the 290 spot... so I was a lil dissapointed about that... but apparently I dont have to be dissapointed since it finally left that 290 and now says between 287 and 288 so I chose the 288.... 280s is always what I called my comfort weight..... I felt comfortable in my skin.. knowing that I SHOULD loose weight but i was perfectly ok with not... I was 280 or so when I graduated from high school.. I dont know when in life I first got to 280 but I think it must have been between 8 and 10th grade... (during my parents very MESSY divorce) I have never seen a scale say 275 250 230 even... I cannot wait for that!!! In 8th grade I remember buying a size xl from charlotte russe these flowy type skirts that i loved... so I probably weighed like 225 then? Im not sure I dont remember.. but it seems that i jumped from that to a size 24 in one day... I have also been thinking about what I am going to look like once i do loose weight ... will i look like the same person just thin? I have nothing to compare myself with... since i was in the 200s in jr high and like 180 in 5th grade... and in 5th grade i definitely was not 5'9" ! its a total unknown to me!!!!!!!!!

So also It has been one month!!! WOW time flies when youre having fun I guess.. haha.. so heres the one month measurements..

Right Ankle 9 1/4" (-1")
Left Ankle 9 1/4" (-3/4")
Right Calf- 16 1/2" (-1")
Left Calf- 16 3/4" (-1 1/4")
Right Thigh 25 1/2" (-2 1/4")
Left Thigh 27" (-1 3/4")
Hips 55 1/2" (-3 3/4")
Waist 54 1/2" (-2 3/4")
Chest (under boobs) 51" (-5") WOW
shoulders 52" (-2")
Right upper arm 13 1/2" (-1 1/2")
Left Upper arm 13 1/2 " (-1/2")
Right Wrist 6 1/2" (-1/2")
Left wrist 6 1/2" (-1/4")
Neck 16 1/2" (-1/2")

Ive lost 25 3/4" from my body... WHOO HOO!!!!!!!!!!!! and 23 lbs forever!

10-12-06
So aparently my body does not like to get out of the 280s.... my comfort weight you see... Last week my scale dropped to the 270s but apparentlky it was tripping... I dunno.. so I guess IM on my first stall? I dunno... I wanted to lose 50 by halloween.. but thats not a hard pressed goal... So as of today at 283 I have lost 28 pounds... thats great... but when i go to the doctor theyre gonna think i only lost 21.. since they weighed me in at their stupid manual scale at 304 ... oh well whats gone is gone.

8/31/06- 311
9/7/06- 301
9/14/06- 296
9/21/06- 290
9/28/06- 288
10/5/06- 276-286? I HATE MY SCALE! (10/6 says 282)
10/12/06- 283 am i gaining? weird.
10/19/06- FINALLY 278
10/26/06- 275
11/01/06