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I'm so excited. I just reached my 2 yrs. out mark on 10/24 and all of the suddden I have lost some more weight! I now weigh... drum roll... 178lbs.
Yippee! I finally cracked that darned 180 and am now at 158lbs lost. I am updating my pic. 

BEFORE @ 336 






AFTER @ 178





click on this link to see a larger pic. having resize issues!! (story of my life LMBO!)
http://i35.photobucket.com/albums/d190/sallyk8/WLS2yrsoutjpg1resz.jpg

336lbs PRE-OP




MINUS 150lbs. @ 2 YEARS OUT

I am amazed at how fast the time has flown. I am coming up on 2 years out and 150lb. loss since I started this journey. I was reading over some of my entries on my blog and I have to say I went through the gammet of emotions as I reflected. Tears, laughter, sorrow, joy and inspiration to name a few. What a ride it has been for me and worth every single step! I mean that sincerely. I am living life so fully now and am happier than I have been in a long time. God has been so faithful to me and together he and I have made it through this walk of change. If you are just starting your journey, or perhaps wading around the edges contemplating this surgery, I can tell you this, it is worth every drop of sweat, every ounce of fight with the insurance companies, every single tear drop and more. If you look through my blog archives, you will see that I did not exactly have a smoothe start. My journey has been very bumpy at times but WORTH it. My life is incomparable today to what it was. I am so very active and living life fully for God, my hubby and my kids and of course myself. 
2 years ago, I was a heart attack waiting to happen. I was wheelchair bound. I could not stand for more than 5 mins. I had to do everything from a chair and shop of course in a wheelchair. I cooked from a rolling office chair in the kitchen. I was borderline diabetic, hypertensive and had severe sleep apnea. I also had GERD. I weighed 336lbs at 5'3". I was miserable...
Today I have lost 150lbs and am losing more. I walk anywhere I want to for hours on end. I no longer need a CPAP machine for the sleep apnea...it's gone! I have no trace of diabetes and my blood pressure was 98/ 78 last time taken! I am healthy and happy. My hubby and I are even closer than before because my self-esteem is so much better. He has not changed... he loved me before... I HAVE CHANGED! Thank-you to God for bringing me to this wonderful place in my life. 
Winter is truly over in my life and Spring has finally come...
IF you want it, FIGHT for it! I know you can do it if I can.

 Here are my 11 month updates

Before at 336lbs. and 11 months out at 214lbs.

8/13/06

Hubby and the kids and I went on a nice 2 week vacation to Tennesee. Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge and Cades Cove. Then we went over to Cherokee NC and SC.
We had the best vacation we have had in years since I could actually walk and keep up! We went to Dollywoods water park, Splash Country. Iactually wore a bathing suit all day and walked up flights of stairs all day for 7 hrs! What a change in my life. We had a blast. The kids were so thrilled that mom could go along and keep up. I truly am blessed with my second chance at life. Thank-you God. We walked so much during our vacation that I actually lost about 8 pounds! Below are a couple of vacation pics.

 

the kids in Cades Cove



Hubby and I on the side of the road in the smokeys

7/03/06

Well it is definitely time for an update! I have been so busy enjoying
my new energy that I have gone from being on the PC 2-3 times a day to 2-3 times a week. I do not know where to begin so much has changed. I hit the -100lb. LOSS mark In my 7th month! WOOO HOOOO!! I have gone down from a size 30/32 to a 16 or extra large. I can now shop in the regular size clothing area. THAT boggles my mind. I still go to the plus size clothes when I go to the store because I have not been able to wrap my brain around the size change. My confidence is soaring. My energy is through the roof. I walk to shop for hours on end no electric cart! Thank-you Lord! I have been warned by friends and family to slow down so that I do not burn out but I just wanna GO! ;-) I am so thrilled to not be sitting on the sidelines of life anymore. Spring truly came for me!
I am going to the Ivory Coast Africa in September. I will be ministering there with 3-4 others. I CAN actually do this! NEVER ever would I have been able to travel that far and keep up with all the walking before.
Though I still have a long way to go, I am a new person already. I will never be the same as I was.
I watched "Whose Eating Gilbert Grape" tonight. I had never seen it before. I cried and cried for the mother in that movie and at the same time thanked God for rescuing me from the same fate.

Hugs to you all,
Sallykate

 

4/26/06

Two days ago was my 6 month anny! ALREADY??! Wow! Time has flown by. Here is my recent post to the FL board:
Monday was my six month anny and so I posted new pics. I have lost
between 86 and 89lbs. You know how the scale is.... up down up down. So I am sitting somewhere between 86 and 89. I seem to be a slow loser and a major dumper. My pouch is a brat and can be very grouchy! I have dumped on ketchup folks!
Anywho, I try to keep my chin up and not get depressed about the slow
loss. I have gone down from a size 30-32 to a 20 and some 18's.I have a loooong way to go yet. I want to get to about 125-130 as I am a shorty at 5'3".
As I mentioned in that post, I have discovered that I am a dumper. I
try to keep my sugars below 6 grams a sitting. I can have the occasional cookie as long as it is a low sugar cookie BUT I learned the hard way the other night... I had a small mollasses cookie. I have had them before w/o any trouble. Except this time, I decided to have about a half cup of milk with it. BIG boo boo. Too many natural sugars in the milk mixed with the cookie sugars sent me into a dumping frenzy! I was sick for 2 solid hours. I hurt so bad and was nauseated and shaky all I can say is, "ugh!" So I try to watch it but I get surprised sometimes. I dumped on shrimp sauce at a Japanese steak house 3 weeks ago. Did not even make it out of the restaurant. I was in the bathroom hugging the toilet. Then I dumped on Ketchup with some seafood I was eating! GROUCHY POUCHY!
Some people have named their pouches cute little affectionate names like pooky, sam and so forth. NOT me! Mine is named BRAT! ;-)
Life is much better with the 86lbs. gone. I walk everywhere I go now. I
cannot remember the last time I needed a wheel chair. Thank-you Lord!
My confidence is much higher and my independance is growing because I can do so uch and want to do it for myself!
My hubby hugged me the other day and he smiled and said sweetly, "I can wrap my arms all the way around you now ...almost twice!" He loves holding me so close to him and boy I sure love it too! When the embrace ended, I said, "do it again". So he did and we just stood there in the kitchen hugging. It made my year hearing him say that.

Here are my 6 month updates

Before at 336lbs. and 6 months out at 250lbs.

3/09/06

I guess it's time for an update...

I posted this to the FL board today:
Hi there FL friends!

Long time no see... Kim emailed me and told me that Miss Red was checking on me so I thought I would pop in. (ty Miss Red! )
I am doing MUCH better! Eating and drinking like the rest of you... what a relief. I have not had much to post as I have not been losing.
I am not sure why. I have been a good girl but I have been on a plateau for 2.5 months! I weighed this morning however and the scale has moved. hip hip hooray! I am at a total loss of 71lbs. in 4 months and 2 weeks. Did I hope for more at this far out? YES! Have I been discouraged? YES (but only in the past two weeks) Am I happy with the results? YES!! Though I have been frustrated with losing and gaining the same 5 pounds for the past 2 months, I am thrilled with the loss that I have been blessed with. I am walking! WALKING! Hubby and I took our 4 kids to the Jacksonville Zoo on a homeschool field trip and I walked for 4 hours straight! NEVER in a million years could I do that before. I had to use a wheel chair for everything. I am praying that my plateau is broken as of this morning, being that I am a pound lower than ever before. (fingers, toes and eyes crossed!)
Life for me is busier than ever and I do try and pop in to lurk occasionaly... Some of you guys just amaze me. Your progress is tremendous and so inspiring. Amy s. I just looked at your pic trail. AWESOME GIRL!
Greeneyze... You look fab! Those are the two that I have seen today but so many of you are rockin and rollin! I aim to join you in your success. I am really focusing on my "head" issues and habit changes while I have been stuck. Thankfully, I can see results there.

Hugs to you all!
Sallykate

2/01/06

A thought on eating....
You know after I read so many replies to a post about lack of desire to eat from others having little desire to eat it made me realize something...

We were so used to "loving" food and our lives revolved around it so much pre-op that we ate hungry or not. Needed or not. Now we are having to work it out in our heads that you do not have to have a "speacial craving" in order to eat or a big "to do" meal to want to eat. We just need to eat because food sustains us, helps us be healthy, gives us energy and vitamins etc. What a NEW and strange way to view food and eating! LOL It's kind of boring! No wonder we really do not care to eat anymore. It does not "seem" nearly as fun anymore. I am working on changing my perceptions of what "fun" eating is. Pigging out on all my faves vs. treating my body the way it should be so that it will live much longer and run more smoothly. In order to do that, I may just have to FORCE myself to consume my protein drinks and daily meals just as before I had to FORCE myself away from the table when I was trying to watch what I ate if I was dieting.
What a ramble! Sorry so long...
have a great day,
Sallykate

1/29/06

Hellloooooo....

I just had my 3 month WLS birthday! I am down 60lbs which means I only lost 10 lbs this past month, UGH! I have been on a stall for 2.5 weeks and have not been able to bust it so far. I will though. I have noticed the inches are flying off. I have run out of clothes so many times and just in the nick of time... My good WLS friend Kim sends me more! Of course she gets them from another WLS buddy of ours. Ha! I have gone down from a size 30 and 4x to a 22 so far.
I had my three month check up with the surgeon (Dr. Brient) and he says I am doing superbly. He wants to see me walking 2 miles 6 days a week by 6 months out. I have slacked on my exercise a bit but have the motivation to get my butt in gear tomorrow and get busy! I wanna bust this stall!! My nutritionist is worried that I might not be getting enough calories in a day. She wants me to take in a minimum of 700 cals and said 1000 would be just fine. I just have not had the motivation to eat. I don't really care for food too much these days. Not sure why, but I am working on getting in some more food. Below are my 3 month pics... Can you see a difference??
God bless you wherever you are at in your journey!
Sallykate

Here are my 3 month updates


pre-op and 3months @ -60lbs



This is me with my best friend and hubby Mike! I love him more everyday... we have been married 15.5 years. (3 months post-op)


This pic was taken on a field trip to the zoo. I walked for 4 solid hours with out a problem! I could not walk for more than 5- 10 mins. pre-op. Thank-you Lord for freedom!

1/13/06

EXERCISE WORKS AND IS IMPERATIVE TO YOUR WEIGHT LOSS! Hi guys, I just had to "exclaim that." I have not felt like I was losing at a fast enough rate and have not been abale to exercise much due to being so weak from the dehydration. Well I have also had a horrific cold but decided that I HAD to start somewhere and so I did. I decided to just do what I could do and be happy with that....
I started 3 days ago and put my heart and soul into it and in those 3 days, I have lost 6 pounds! That's 2 pounds a day! SO I am now at 280lbs and -56lbs! Yesterday was a milestone for me because I weighed 285lbs in January 2004 when I had my pulmonary embloism afterwhich I was put on Zoloft and gained almost 60 lbs. This is the first time I have weighed less than 285lbs in 2 years. I am ecstatic!! My energy is crazy! I love working out and even have gotten my kids doing it with me. I do the walk away the pounds 1 mile walk DVD. That in itself is amazing because I have had to use a wheel chair for shopping. I could not even walk from the theater to the parking lot. Last night we took the kids to see king kong and I walked all the way to the parking lot w/o even a huff or a puff and we parked FAR away. :-) I am feeling great! Slowly but surely I am getting my life back and I LOVE it!
Hugs,
Sallykate