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  • Name: taryn H.
  • Username: blessedofelohim
  • Location: Wilmington, NC, USA
  • Member Since: 7/19/2007
  • BMI: 52.1
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (09/20/07)
  • Surgeon: James Harris, M.D.
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1 YEAR UPDATE
on September 24, 2008 12:58 pm
HI

As you can see I don't edit or update much for that matter LOL..I'm doing great.. I've lost 100 pounds to be exact in 1 year.. NOT TOO BAD!! I'm very thankful and grateful that I had such a great doctor and that all is going extremely well for me, besides the sick days I have because I've eaten something I shouldn't have I'm good to go. I still don't exercise. I said as soon as I lose these last 8 pounds, to hit the 199 pound mark then I will start. I really  believe that I need some plastic surgery work done. Esp. my stomach, after 2 c-sections and this excess skin I don't think alot of exercise will help me out but I will do it.. I've already found a doctor here in Wilmington but I will wait until I lose these last 50 pounds. And then get the surgery, my arms are bat wings.. I hate them too and my thighs have excess skin too, which i expected but i can so live with my thighs.. JUST NOT THIS STOMACH AND ARMS.. I think thick thighs in jeans and a skirt are the bomb anyway.. So once I have around 12,000 saved I can get this surgery done...


Other than that I love my RNY and have NO NO NO regrets none what-so-ever.. If yo have any questions or just want to chat please feel free to send me a message i will respond.

GOD BLESS AND VOTE

I don't know how many inches anymore that I've lost, but I'm in a size 14 from a tight 26 which really was a 28 LOL..my breast are GONE!!!
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7 MONTH'S AGO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
on April 21, 2008 4:49 am

Well it's been 7 months.. I haven't updated in forever..sorry.. a lot happened! Well, I lost some of my breast area LOL...I mean WOW! and I've lost alot of inches.. I'm down from a tight 26 to a nice fitting 16 and I've even gotten into some 14's. Down from 307 to 228, 79 pounds...that seems like such a big number. But I'm doing great overall. I still have my moments when I get sick, depending on what I eat. And sometimes I don't have to eat I can smell or think of certain foods and get sick feeling(seriously). I still have around 80 more pounds to go. I've been in a stall for around a month and a half with around 1 or 2 pounds weight loss and it keeps going up and down with those same 2 or 3 pounds. I need to start exercising but hate the idea and don't do it like i should. Maybe once a week, which I know is not good, but better than nothing, still not acceptable though. i'm really trying to get better in this area but I hate exercising, and I DON'T have that energy like everybody else that says when you work out that you have more energy--I'm just the opposite. I'm not doing all that great with my protein. But I've noticed if I drink one a day(I double the amount by adding 1 full scoop of Whey protein to another Full scoop of unflavored with Lactaid milk so I'm getting in around 70+ grams of protein in 1 drink when I do drink them) I start losing again. Which I've started back doing recently. I don't like taking pills, but I have too since my iron is always very low. I need a plan even for that. Overall I don't regret one thing except not doing it faster.. Water is very important.. I will update my photos sometime this week as well. I look terrible on these, but I thank God from where I've come from... and can't ever ever ever go back there again...

Blessings to all

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1 Month Post-Op tomorrow
on October 19, 2007 1:32 pm
WELL,,

It's been a rough road.. I've come along way. I'm still trying to figure out what to eat and what not to eat. I did have a trip to the ER for dehydration.. But it's hard for me to get my fluids in.. I really can't tolerate water.. I can have tea and cocoa but plain water is hard. I'm down 25lbs. my first month and have like 140 more to go LOL. man that seems so far away... Other than that I'm doing ok. I plan on posting a picture very soon. I can see some small difference in my face, which is so good. I need to get that double chin out of the way. I'm back into my size 24. I was up tp a 26 depending on where I bought the clothes. But overall doing ok. 

Take care
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First Post-OP Appointment Today!!!!!!
on October 2, 2007 1:24 pm
Hello all you beautiful people...

Well today made 12 days POST-OP.. I went to Dr. Harris office today and had my staples taken from the 6 incisions.. I'm healing nicely and doing good. I got the OK to go back to work Thursday.. So off I will be going.. I'm actually happy to be going back.. I'm down 14 pounds.. I can't see the BIG difference or anything like that. But I did notice something in the breast area.. LOL!!

Well thats it for now.. OH and btw I'm NOT hungry today and I wasn't hungry yesterday either.. BUT I want some REAL food.. LOL
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It's been 3 days
on September 23, 2007 8:51 am
I'm doing good. I did the "CLEAR LIQUID" phase. And now i'm doing the "FULL LIQUID " phase. I'm still a little hungry at times. But when I do have my food I'm fine. I get up and walk and shower and things are good. Wonderful husband that helps me with EVERYTHING!!!

I'm down 10 POUNDS!!!!!!!!!!
yea!!!!!!!!
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My Story

My name is Taryn. I'm married with 2 girls. Like most people I have been overweight for MOST of my adult life. I started looking into weight lost surgery a couple of years ago but never really said that it was for me. So I did like most and started doing DIET AFTER DIET AFTER DIET...and got bored quickly, starving, obessing with the scale thing. I did Atkins in 2000-2001 and was doing great. At that time I was 225 and got down to 199 in less than 2 months and was feeling healthy and def. feeling better. But SURPRISE!! here comes baby number 2. At that time I was like enjoying being able to eat what I want and getting away with it. I blew up to around 285 and stayed there. Once I had A'Leah I tried for awhile to do Atkins again. But things wasn't going so well after I had the baby. So I gave up and said I guess I will be fat forever.. Of course I didn't keep that frame of thought and decided to try everything out there.. I only lost like 10-15 pounds of courses of months and decided I would do a diet every Monday. LOL... But I finally got serious about Lap-Band surgery in 2002-2003. I didn't actually do anything to move into that direction until 2006. I started really researching more and more into WLS.. well we moved from Memphis, Tn to Wilmington, NC- due to my husband job and then I said ok I've hit 307 pounds on my 5'3 1/2 frame..I was miserable and tired and depressed some what and decided now is the time. I'm 29 and want to be healthy and want to live for me and my family. I was looking at Dr.Miles for my surgery and it was the Lap-Band. But after 2 attempts of me taking them my package and it getting lost, I decided to go to another doctor. Dr. Harris. And the rest is in my blog.

God bless

 


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