BOOH's Journey

Username: BOOH219
Location: CORONA, NY, USA
Member Since: 8/13/2007
BMI: 31.0
Post Op
Surgery Type: RNY (12/11/07)
Surgeon: Paresh Shah, M.D.

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Latest Surgery Support Comments

Comment by Kellie_B on 12/11/07 6:48 pm

Good Luck on your surgery I hope everything went well! God bless!

Comment by DaBear's Kitten on 12/11/07 6:04 pm

How awesome are YOU! Congratulations and welcome home. Nothing can get in your way but you! I'm thrilled for you!

Comment by dreamz on 12/11/07 7:15 am

Hi Racheal, i am so very excited for you Sis...may God bring you through a uneventful surgery and a speedy recovery...i'm sending up my prayers for your today. GodSpeed & Many Blessings for the future, Love Dreamz

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6 months post-op
on June 5, 2008 12:25 pm

I'm went to my 6 month check up with my surgeon today. I can't believe this but I am no longer in the 200's. I have lost over 100 pounds since my surgery in December, words can not explain how happy I am right now. My surgeon also said that all my blood work has come back normal. So all need to do is continue to workout, eat righ and take my vitamins and i should be fine.

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No stopping me now
on May 5, 2008 8:12 am

I can't believe that it's May and on Mother's Day I will be 5 months out, and I have gone from wearing a size 26 to a size 16

. It's so funny because i guess when your big you really don't realize it. I was taking my sons to football pratice on Saturday and I was walking to my car when I saw one of my neighbors and all she kept telling me was how great I looked and that i really lose a lot of weight. I thanked her and got in the car and started to laugh so i turned to my sons and i asked them was i really that big? and the they both said at the same time yes mommy you were. WOW I guess when you're living in a body you really just can't tell, i knew i was big but i didn't realize i was that big. But i sure can see the difference now, and know now that there is no stopping me

I feel so good now

i'm just happy that i no longer have to shop in the Avenue or Lane Bryant. I can go shopping with my friend Tara and no longer have to feel out of place when we walk into New York & Company, The Gap or H&M. I can finally shop in these stores

Ya for me

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I'm changing
on April 7, 2008 7:42 am

Wow from my new pics I can finally see the weight I have lost. It's great, I feel great and just can't believe it. I just don't like the money i'm spending, I feel like i'm always shopping for new clothes but i guess it's worth it. I rather keep shopping for smaller sizes then to be in that size 26 that I wore for years. It's nice looking for 16's, and i'm almost out of that size 14 here I come.

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My WOW moment at Old Navy
on March 4, 2008 7:22 am

I went to Old Navy this weekend, because my size 18 and 20 jeans are getting to big for me. I decide I would go into Old Navy and give their jeans a try. I tired on a pair if 18 low rise and it wasn't a good look. So I looked at a chart they had in the fitting room and realized that I would need to try the sweetheart jeans they are classic rise. I tried on the 18 and they were a little to big so I tried the 16 and they fit. I have never been able to fit into a pair of Old Navy jeans, I was so happy that a tear came to my eyes I couldn't believe that was able to fit into a regulat pair of jeans. So now I know that I can buy Old Navy jeans when my jeans gets to big.

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2 Months
on February 11, 2008 8:44 am

WOW..... what a ride it's has been 2 months since my surgery and i'm feeling great. I'm down 48lbs and 4 pants sizes. I'm not shopping much but when I do I have so much fun. I can't believe that I can fit into a size 18 pants. I haven't been able to fit into a size 18 since 1997 that was the year my son Kory was born, Kory is now 11. That was a long time ago I guess that's why I was so happy when I was able to get the 18 pants on. My birthday is next week and I wanted a treadmill and my husband got it for me so i'm happy, I figure when I don't feel like going to the gym I can workout at home. I was also able to run on the treadmil at the gym last week. I was only able to run for 3 mintues, but for the first time I was able to run. I sometimes wonder why it took me so long to decide to have the surgery.

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My Story

   The new kid on the block
My story is since a teen I have battled with my weight. I was always the BIG girl, and the funny girl. When I started college I started to lose the weight and I met my husband. Never really skinny but I was smaller in size then I had ever been I had my first son, I the lost weight after I had him and I was feeling good about myself. New life with my now new family my son and my husband. About 4 years later I gave birth to yet another son and then the weight came back. My youngest son will be seven this year and I have gained over 100 pounds since his birth. I am now at the point that I am very unhappy by the way I look.  I do not like to take pictures because of how I look. I think the eye opener for me was when my husband was looking at old pictures of me in college and he showed the picture to my son and he didn't know who I was. All my son kept saying is that's not mommy. That really hurt me; I had gained so much weight that my son didn't even know who I was in that picture. So this year after doing diet after diet and it not working I decided it was time I do away with the old me and start 2008 with a new me.  I need a me that I will now be happy with. So I am currently in the process of have the by pass surgery. This is my story!!!!!!!!



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