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Goals

To really wear a "little" black dress

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get down to 130 lbs!

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Wear a sexy shoe with a heel

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Buy clothes at a regular store...not a plus size store.

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weigh under 200 lbs!

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Member Interests
  • Family & Friends - i live for the happiness of my friends & fam
  • Dogs - i adore my pom-poo Coco Luv
  • Cars - im in an all scion, mostly male dominated car club! i
  • WLS in your 20's - i love the 20's board, if you havent been there....check it out!

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  • Comment by knomel1 on 2/12/09 2:46 pm
    Congrats on your surgery day! I will be keeping you in my thoughts and sending out many prayers for you and your surgical team. Here's to a speedy recovery and the wonderful weight loss journey you have ahead of you! ~ Mel
  • Comment by airforcewifey on 2/12/09 11:58 am
    Good luck honey your probably in recovery I hope everything is going AMAZING.....i'm sending the positive JUJU to you right now
  • Comment by llasanford44 on 2/12/09 7:55 am
    Prayers heading your way - Welcome to the Loser's Bench Take things slow and everything will work out. You will be surprised how fast things are going to change. smile Lori
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So...I'm blanca, Im 26 years old and I started this journey towards weight loss surgery in July of 08 at my highest weight ever...a whopping 236lbs.! ahhh!!
Ive always been "thick" but the weight really started to pile on very fast about 5 years ago, i couldnt figure out why and no matter what i did i couldnt get it off! it wasnt until i was diagnosed with PCOS at 21 years of age that i realized it wasnt all my fault. Anyway, my mom mentioned WLS a while back and my first reaction was to get MAD!
i never really thought of myself as being "that big" and i never thought my life lacked anything...im a very happy and outgoing person, im in a wonderful relationship and i have the best friends and family in the world, BUT i soon realized she was just looking out for me and recently ive found myself thinking of the future more than my present and I know that I want to have a family and live a long life, keeping this weight on will only make those goals harder to achieve, i already have PCOS working against me...and im really hoping that losing the weight will make that disappear also.
Well I had RNY on Feb 12th 2009 and the journey has been rough so far, but im sure it will all be worth it in the end. I'll definitely try my very best to keep everyone on OH posted with my progress along the way.

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Baby Bella Rosa is here!
on August 4, 2010 6:47 pm
I havent updated in a very long time, obviously, since my baby girl is here! lol
She is just shy of 3 weeks old now and doing great! i love her so much and i truly owe my little miracle baby, in large part, to having had gastric bypass!!
She was born 7/16/10 @ 10:21pm weighing 6 lbs. 2 oz. & 18 inches long. Labor was induced and INTENSE, i had two failed epidurals and labored for 49 hours AND pushed for 3 hours w/out any meds OUCH, despite being as tiny as she was she still tore me pretty badly and we needed help from the vacuum to get her out of the birth canal. She may just end up being an only child after all of that LOL

well here she is!

baby bella



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5 months pregnant =)
on March 12, 2010 4:43 pm
20 weeks and 3 days pregnant. We had our big anatomy scan today and baby is still a girl lol
im up 6 lbs from my pre pregnancy weight and its a little hard to grasp the idea of gaining after losing for so long...but i know its all for the baby!


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shes growing, and so am I!! lol
on March 3, 2010 2:18 pm
this was taken this weekend!
cant suck it in anymore LOL!

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its a girl!!!!!!
on February 15, 2010 5:23 pm
yes found out today we are having a little girl! 
her name will be Bella Rosa, NO im not a twilight fan, lol ive never seen/read any of the twilight movies/books! I fell in love with the name Bella about 6 years ago when i met the most beautiful little girl named bella at a birthday party, and Rosa is a family name (grandmas, moms and my middle name)  I LOVE it!!!





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baby is growing!
on January 5, 2010 11:02 pm
had my scheduled ultrasound yesterday and it was AWESOME! baby is measuring just right and still had a strong heartbeat of 176! I have to admit that it still doesnt feel real, i felt like i was watching someone elses baby up on the screen, i dont think it will feel real until i can actually feel all of the kicking and punching ( baby was doing tons of that on the screen yesterday)
I also found a cute little townhouse for rent not too far from home and on the same street as the hospital where i will deliver the baby later this year. I dont like that its only 2 bedroom (was really hoping for 3) BUT it has a two car attached garage AND in unit laundry (big plus with baby on the way) Its about the same size as my apartment as far as square footage is concerned but having the garage and laundry make it seem sooo much bigger, i think it will be a good place. Tomorrow im going to look at ONE more place and then if it doesnt blow me away ill be heading over to the townhome to place a deposit to hold the place until feb 1st!






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I've always been a "thick" girl and honestly never had a real problem with it. I LOVED my curves for a larger part of my life, im latin WE CURVY haha! I only started considering my weight a "battle" in the last few years....it started to just PILE on around my waist and no matter what I've tried (and Ive tried LOTS) it just doesnt go away... a cpl of years ago i was diagnosed with PCOS (polycystic ovarian syndrome) and learned that this syndrome plays a HUGE role in the lack of weight lost through the years, my fellow CYSTers will know about the burden of carrying this extra weight! Good news is that I've heard WONDERFUL things about pcos simply disappearing after WLS, i sure hope im one of the lucky ones!!

I only started thinking about WLS in the last few months, my mom actually brought it up and off the bat i took offense to the idea!! It took a while for me to understand that she was only thinking of me and my future...I want kids someday....this weight and PCOS can put a huge damper on that...AND i want to be around for those kids...i need to be healthy!!

I only recently mentioned this to my boyfriend who very quickly said that he supported my decision 100%...i was so scared about what his reaction would be...he met me this way and i wasnt sure he wanted to think of me any other way...but he sees the need for it healthwise and even jokingly said, "can i get it too!" lol hey MAYBE ...haha but i love a big man soooo i dont know hahaha...either way he WILL be working out with me!!!

Im hoping to say bye bye bye to PCOS, back pain, asthma and MY BELLY very soon!! =)