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become a healthy and active Mom and Wife!

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paint my toenails without holding my breathe and breaking a sweat.

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  • Comment by Lynn R. on 4/22/09 12:58 pm
    I'm so happy to hear everything went well and you are now on your way!! Good luck!!
  • Comment by NaomiF on 4/21/09 9:09 pm
    Dear April, It's great to know that both you and Jenn had uneventful surgeries and that you are both doing well. Making room for both of you on the loser's bench. Congrats and hang on, it's going to be a wild ride!
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It's been over a year!
on September 27, 2010 9:30 am
I can't believe it's been a year since my last post. I've been sitting here reading my past posts and can't help but cry, It's so easy to get caught up in living life skinnier, and you forget how far you've really come, I forgot how hard it was. So everyone who's struggling right now, either before surgery, during or after, the day will come when things get really easy! For me sometimes too easy, I can pretty much eat anything I want, and I've found a way to eat candy, by watching the sugar grams which is bad. So surgery definately doesn't fix everything I still have to watch what I eat and how much just like before my surgery, so I don't gain weight, I weigh myself everyday because I don't want it to get out of control, I still want to lose ten more pounds but I don't really try, I really need to get all this skin cut off, it's horrible and my boobs are pretty non existant thankgod for nice bras! But I'm so glad I made the decision to have surgery, I'm so much more healthy and happy now! So if your reading this and considering surgery, GO FOR IT!!!!! Just do lots of research and make sure you ready mentally and emotionally and have lots of support! You'll do great!!! Thankyou to everyone who has helped mre along the way with advice and words of encouragement, I'm going to try to be here more regularly, so I can help others the way you've all helped me.
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Am I crazy?
on August 7, 2009 10:52 am

I been feeling really wierd lately, like I'm in my own little world seperate from everyone, and all emotion, and extremely empty. Has anyone had any problems with depression after surgery? or Major relationships issues? Please help and let me know, Thanks!!!

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50 lbs.!!!!
on July 25, 2009 4:03 pm
Hello, everybody!Hope everyone is doing well. I've been pretty good, yesterday I officialy lost a total of 50 lbs. since surgery, and 60 lbs from my highest. It's pretty exciting, I'm almost out of the 180's yay!!! I have had some issues since surgery but days like this definately make it worth it. I went to our monthly lunch today, that I almost forgot about. I'm so glad I remembered it's nice to meet new people that are dealing with the same things you are. No one else truly understands unless they've been through this. If you haven't been to one of the lunches you should definately come to one it's lots of fun. So I have to have an endoscopy done and may need them to stretch my opening because things are getting stuck. Has anybody had this done? If so how many times I heard it takes more than once sometimes. Oh, and anyone who has had they'rs surgery at Kaiser Richmond, can you let me know who your Dr. is and how your experience has been. I just got Kaiser ins. so I have to change everything over. So I guess that's it, since my husband just asked if I was writing a book (whatever!) Talk to you all soon!!!
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stuck food
on July 12, 2009 10:32 pm
Wow, It's been a month since my last post. So I'm doing pretty good. I've been teetering around 188 for a couple weeks now, I need to step up the excercise to get the scale moving alittle faster again, but I'm feeling good. I'm having some trouble with my food getting stuck, no matter what I eat or how slow I eat, it gets stuck so I've had alot of throwing up lately. Have I posted that already? Oh, if I did it's still happening. If anyone has an advise I'd appreciate any help I can get. I've gotten to where I don't even want to eat, it's such a hassle. I'm kicking myself because I didn't do my pictures or measurements for my two month mark, so I figured I'd wait for three months. I hope everyone is doing good!
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Goodbye to the 200's forever!!!!!!!
on June 8, 2009 11:28 am
Finally!!! I'm under 200 lbs.!! 198 baby!!!! I'm so excited I have waited for this day for a long time I hope everyone else is doing well!
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O.k. so I've had this profile for awhile but I'm finally writing something. I've been working on getting approved for my surgery since June of last year, but I've been thinking about it for over year and finally the time has come! My surgery is scheduled for April 21st. I'm so excited! The nerves haven't really set in yet, but I'm sure they'll be coming. So... my story, I haven't always been over weight, well I guess I"ve always fluctuated, I went through a few chubby years as a kid, but once I got into Junior High and Highschool I was pretty thin, still considered thick I guess, but thinner than now! All the weight came after I had my son. I gained 40 pounds while I was pregnant. I lost alittle and then gained it back and it's been coming on ever since,and he's eleven now. I continued to get bigger and bigger every year. I've tried every diet possible along the way but nothing ever stuck, I think the most I've ever lost at one time is 18 pounds. I started my journey at 241 now I"m at 231 and I'm about 5'1 and a half. Don't forget that half! Alot of people say I'm not "big" enough to have the surgery, and I've noticed it's skinny healthy people that say that to me. The people who have never felt the humiliation of not fitting into a roller coaster ride with your kids, who don't feel uncomfortable everytime they walk into a party, they've never been the biggest person in the room. They don't sleep with a scuba mask(this would be my cpap machine, my husband calls me scuba steve, yah he thinks he's hillarious) on their face everynight, or feel pain with every step they take. I think their just trying to be nice, but they have no idea! Wow that was alot of negativity! I am having this surgery for my health, I'm borderline diabetic, I have really bad arthritis in my knees, pain in my feet, high cholesterol, a fatty liver, severe sleep apnea. Diabetes and liver disease run on both sides of my family so I"m bound to get it eventually. So this is why I've decided to take such drastic measures. Sorry more negativity! I'm excited and ready now to start living a healthy and active life. I want to be around for my kids, grandkids, and great grandkids.I love these little smiley face guys!!!