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  • Username: ButterflyWings
  • Location: Peekskill, NY, USA
  • Member Since: 9/19/2007
  • BMI: 31.2
  • Post Op
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Exercise faithfully and enjoy doing it!

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Get off blood pressure medicine

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Lose 10 dress sizes!!

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lose 100 lbs.

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weigh less than my husband

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Hi, I'm Jacqui.  I'm 46 and 6'" tall.  I live with my husband, Marc, how is the love of my life.  He is my soulmate and my best friend.  I also live with my son, David, who is 26 yrs old (Ugh! ).  He is my reason for living - my baby! 

I am beginning a brand new chapter in my life.... this time around, it's about ME!  
I am doing this for ME, no one else but ME.  

I want to be healthy and able to enjoy my life.  I want to walk without being winded.  I want to run up stairs. I want to shop at regular stores.  I want to eat to live, NOT live to eat!  I want to be around for my husband and son and, God willing, my grandchildren.  I want to be there to continue to laugh and cry with my sister Patty and my 4 brothers, Donnie, Michael, Mark and Chad....and my sisters-in-law who are my FRIENDS... and ALL those wonderful nieces and nephews I have.  I want to go on a job interview and GET the job because I'm qualified (not because they wonder how I will walk their stairs or fit in their chairs).  I want to walk down the street and have people say, WOW!  

I don't want to hear "You're so pretty, if only you would lose a few pounds" EVER AGAIN!  I don't ever want to be called "Thunder Thighs" or "Shelf Butt"  EVER AGAIN!  I don't want to hear my friend's child say "You're fat and jiggly and my mom's not" EVER AGAIN!  I never want to have to ask for seatbelt extender EVER AGAIN!  I don't ever want to hurt like that EVER, EVER AGAIN!!

And so...... this is my Journey to Find Me!

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BEEN ABSENT AGAIN - But Here's An Update!
on March 8, 2008 3:23 pm
Well, I know, of course, that I have been away too long....... again!  What else is new.  It's not like I don't have time to visit and write.  I visit the message boards, but haven't added much.  I just haven't had much to say I guess. 

Until recently, I was in a stall, although my Dietician says that it was not a stall, but that "I needed to really watch what I was eating and stay away from the salt".  I thought I was doing well, but it seems that I was NOT eating what I should be eating.  I was having a lot of cheese and "high-salt" foods and was retaining water and I will also admit that on occassion, I was having a  .    The dreaded word!  Of course, by "Cookie", I meant, TLC Kashi cookie - that's better for you, right?  Full of fiber and less sugars, right?  
Wrong - just because it is a Cookie.... that's reason enough to stay away!    I WILL NOT - HOWEVER - LIVE IN FEAR OF "The COOKIE!!"

Well, JB was right, naturally!  Stayed away from the salt and the cookies and bumped up my exercise and as of Thursday, March 6, my last Support Group Mtg and weigh-in....... I am down 102 lbs.  (for those at the mtg, I know I said I was down 104lbs, but that is because I am not good at math).

Let me also add the following GREAT MILESTONES!!  
   A)  I am off 1 of my blood pressure meds
   B)  I no longer have sleep apnea 
   C)  I am down 102lbs.  (I know, I said that already)
   D)  I am in a size 18/20 (down from 30/32) 
   E)  I have SOOO much energy and LOVE to workout 
   F)  My BMI is 39 (down from 51)

On that note, let me say this...... I am a much happier, confident women...... still unemployed and still broke....... but 
Happy and Confident and Loving Life Again!!!!!
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OMG!!!! I AM KILLING MYSELF HERE!
on February 16, 2008 3:51 pm

  Yes I am!  I am my own worst Enemy! 

My son's birthday was Sunday the 10th (he turned 24).  Ugh that makes me old, doesn't it?!??!  I don't feel old though and when we go out together, people think we are dating.  He HATES that!!    BUT I LUV IT!!!  

I ate chocolate chip cookie cake for my son's birthday and the next day and the next day and the next day.... and then Valentine's Day came..... and I didn't eat anything that day..... Oh, my ... Good For Me, right?!  

Wrong.  No wonder my weight loss is going nowhere!!  On the good side, I don't think I gained anything, because I was/am exercising at least 30 minutes a day - 4-5 times a week.  

I WILL MASTER THIS LIFESTYLE CHANGE!  I WILL, I WILL, I WILL DO IT!!

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February 4, 2008
on February 4, 2008 3:45 pm
Saw JB, my dietician today.... she gave me some great ideas for menus and wants me to plan my menu for the week and shop for those menu items - staying away from salty foods and/or high sodium foods and processed foods (I have been eating a lot of cheese and turkey bacon and Easy items because my creatively flew out the window when I had surgery ..... perhaps the doctor cut that out by mistake. Ha ha ha ha

Anyway.... I'll see what happens.  Wish me luck - I'm gonna need it. 
By the way... Thanks for all the support - you guys are great! 
Hugz and Kisses!!    
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January 31, 2008
on January 31, 2008 8:35 am

HEY!  Just got on the scale and it read...  280 1/2 ... what gives? 
I wasn't upset mind you, just confused.  That would mean I have lost 98lbs and that's great, but from one day to the next, the variation is so crazy.  I think maybe I am weighing myself too often and making myself crazy!!!!!! 

Crazy reminds me that I just got this movie "Snake Pit" that my mom said is Great - its really old from the 40's I think.  Olivia DeHaviland stars.  It's not about snakes, but about "crazy" - I think I'll watch it today.  Mom..... this is for you.

Maybe, going to see my Dietician on Monday and her helping me make a weekly menu and such, has helped.  Let's hope that's it. 

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LUV my Dietician!
on January 28, 2008 3:10 pm

JB......... You are MAAAAVVVEELLLOOUUUUSSSS!  
You have a sunny personality and are a joy to be around and you have this way of twisting the bad things we do around so that we don't feel SOOOO awful and beat ourselves up. 

I AM GETTING BACK ON TRACK..... why did I wait so long to go see her?  Funny thing is, I am the reason......... I was waiting for the office to call ME to make an appt. with ME so that they could see how I was progressing.  Who am I kidding - I am the one who is supposed to be pro-active in MY WL journey, NOT sit around and wait for them to "fix" me.  

Well, enough about the past...... I am only 4 1/2 months out from surgery and doing wonderful!  Tomorrow I will write out my weekly menu and exercise plan and go from there. 

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Let's start way back in high school, shall we.....  

I have always been the tallest in school and just about everywhere else, but I never had a problem with my weight until I married right out of business school and got pregnant.  I gained 55 lbs carrying my son.  When I was 8 months pregnant, I was hit head on by an elderly woman who crossed over the yellow lines.  My son is a miracle!  He was not injured at all however, I had a dislocated right hip, badly banged up knees (kneecaps shifted and ligaments torn), a bruise of the steering wheel on my chest and my head shattered the windshield, so I had a lump and concussion for a while.  

Well... needless to say, I couldn't have surgery to repair my knees until after I delivered my son.  By that time, there was so much damage to my knees that I have since had 5 surgeries between them and have little or no cushion within my joints. (Exercise is and always has been an issue).  I joined Nutrisystem after I had my son and my first surgery and lost 60 lbs.  I was even in the local newspaper, I looked so great.  But..... you know what happened next.... kept it off for about 2 years (because of a stressful, not so nice marriage) and then gained all of it back and more.  

Slowly over the years, my weight was up and down as I struggled as a single mom.  I tried Weight Watchers a zillion times, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem(again), Optifast, Grapefruit Diet, Atkins Diet, soup diet, and so on and so forth.  

Then something wonderful happened in 1994.  I met my now Husband and Love of My Life, Marc.  I weighed in at a whooping 250 lbs when I met him and he saw ME!  Not my weight!  We married in 1995 and over the next 11 gloriously happy years, I gained another 100 lbs.  I don't know how or why or where it came from, but it did!  

I have been researching WLS since 2003.  I have been to seminars in several areas - read every online newsletter, feature, who's who in the doctor world.  You name it.  I still was unsure as to which surgery to have and what would be best for me.  Then one day I heard an ad on the radio about the doctors at Surgical Intensivists who were having a WLS Seminar at Westchester Medical in Valhalla, New York.  I thought, "what the hell, what's another seminar".  Boy was this ONE DIFFERENT!  These doctors really cared and answered every question and explained everything in detail.  My favorite thing that I took from that seminar was this.... "When you are morbidly obese and your BMI is >40, you have a VERY VERY SLIM chance of losing all of the weight on your own and keeping it off.  WLS is like your RESET BUTTON."  Isn't that Great! 

A Reset Button - that is what I have been praying about for years.  With all of the diets I have been on, I KNOW what to eat, I KNOW how much to eat and I KNOW about exercise and how important it is, but ALL I NEEDED WAS A CHANCE TO START OVER AND DO IT RIGHT THE SECOND TIME!  This surgery was going to be my second chance - MY RESET BUTTON! 

Well, that's brings me to now.  I had my first appt with the Doctors on December 20, 2006 and moved forward with my pre-op requirements.  Thankfully, my insurance approved my surgery with only one little mishap with paperwork and HERE I AM!