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Biotin here I come.  On Monday, January 21, 2008, I began to loose my hair.  I knew the day would come, but I was hoping that I would be spared. 

OH MY!  I forgot to update on Dec. 12 and Jan. 12.  Well not much progress in December to report.  However, on my 4 mo surgiversary I was at 255lbs.  Yeah!  I was hoping to see the 250's in December, but I am not being a good post op patient.  No big surprise to me, I have always been a failure at weight loss and I will always find a way to f**k things up.  Well at least my labs were good.  Chloresterol is 170 (with meds), A1c is 6.9 (no meds necessary), low blood count (must remember those vitamins).  Depression, life still sucks!  That should say it all.  I am seeing my surgeon on 1-22-08 for a follow up and will report the mass or whatever that I have noticed.  I am seeing my nut. on 1-29-08 and will finally find out what I should be consuming at this stage of the game.  At some point I should be glad about my progress, but feel I will be the one who fails at wls.  Any way 321 on Sept. 1, 2007 and 256 now = 65 lb weight loss.

Okay, so now I feel much better.  It is 11-12-07 and I am officially 2 months post op.  I was very unhappy with loosing 7 lbs in 8 weeks, but am happy to have lost 10 lbs in 1 month.

I have found out that stalls happen early.  At weeks 5 and 6 I stalled.  I reverted back to old habits also.  I chose bad foods and ate through my depression.  What a bummer to find that in weeks 7 and 8 I only lost a total of 7 lbs.  I  still have not felt full, so this doesn't stop my head hunger.  I hope I didn't go through all of this for nothing.  I really want to loose more each month and started exercising to help it along.  I hope and pray that weeks 9 - 12 show a much better prgress

Today I bought a scale.  I felt that I had to have lost more than the three pounds per the scale on Friday.  I am overjoyed to have found that I lost an additional 10.5 lbs.  I have reached my first milestone!  
I am finally under 300lbs!!!    Yeah!!!  I weighed in at 299.5 lbs!!!

Friday, September 21, I had my first post op visit with my surgeon.  Much to my dismay, I stepped on the scale and only lost 3 pounds.  I was about to cry when my doctor told me that I also lost the almost 10 pounds of fluid that was pumped in me on the day of surgery.  That makes alot of sense, since I can see my face looks thinner, but I was hoping to see it on the scale.  My doctor said I could move onto the next phase, pureed foods.  Well I already did, 3 days earlier.  I also over-ate for the first time.  I did not vomit, but I felt stuffed, uncomfortable, and a total failure.  I cannot wait to move onto other foods.  I am craving pizza and chinese food.  I used to crave chocolate, but feel nausea when I think of it.  That would be good if I continued to feel that.  Well I have one week til I return to work.  I will look at it as a vacation!  All I have to do now is get my strength back and begin to exercise by walking. 

I recently had rny surgery, 9-12-2007.  Two weeks prior to surgery my doctor put me on the atkins diet.  This was very challenging.  I had to break -up with carbs.  Limiting my carb intake was trying, but I found a new relationship with protien.  Now being on liquids, this stinks.  I lost the comfort, taste and fullfilling feeling from food.  I have been watching tv and all I see is food, food, and food.  I cannot wait until the next phase of eating begins.  I have the support of my best friends who have had the surgery and I know things get better, but I needed and wanted to join this site for extra help.  I have been overweight since before kindergarden and have had a long relationship (as I call it) with food.  I truely am missing food.  I know this sounds a bit odd, but I guess we all had a bad relationship with food.  If we could handle cravings and emotions we would have never become  addicts.