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Reach My Goal Weight By My 1 Year Anniversary

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stop eating sweets.

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Weigh 140 pounds

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lose 17 lbs before surgery in sept.

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Highest weight-247, day of surg- 226, current -160, goal- 150, lowest-141, need to lose  10 to reach goal





    
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Update
on September 4, 2012 7:17 am
I am currently at 160. I am doing ok with everything but sweets. I can eat sweets just about like I could before surgery. The only thing that makes me dump and feel sick is ice cream or pudding. I guess its because it slides through and hits my intestine more quickly. I have decided that I was the happiest at about 147-150 so that is my new goal. So I have a few things I'm going to do to get on the road: 1. go to support group  2. go to gym or exercise at home 3 times a week  3. cut back on sweets  4. drink 6-8 glasses of water 5. cut portions. If I keep it simple and realistic I can accomplish it. Hey, 10 lbs is not 100 lbs.

I have been going to see a therapist and mental health doc. It has definitely helped. They put me on Effexor and Wellbutrin. They seem to be doing the trick. Talking to the therapist helps quite a bit too. She's helping me with a lot of issues. I could see that I was getting back into some old patterns and I wanted to nip it in the bud before things got out of hand. I have a lot of issues that I needed to address. I'm working on it.

I really want to get things going with plastic surgery. I would like to have a tummy tuck. I need a breast lift as well but right now I would be satisfied with just the tummy tuck. I had some money saved up for the procedure but I had to use it when I started having trouble with my finances. I'm trying to get some saved back up. I don't want to have to wait 5 or 10 years but I will if I have to.
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Update
on March 19, 2012 4:37 am
I am sitting at 165 now. My lowest was 141 but for only about a week. I stayed at 147 mostly. So that means I have had nearly 20 lbs of gain from my lowest. I am struggling. I'm not gonna lie. I can eat so much more now than I could last year at this time. I haven't been going to the doctor for rechecks because I had sort of a "falling out" with him. His office failed to send all the appropriate paper work in for my surgery and somehow I slipped though the cracks. They thought I was approved for surgery and went ahead with it when I wasn't. Now the insurance isn't paying and they wont more documents from the surgeon that his insurance lady refuses to send. I have had words with her several times. I have since given up and just haven't been back. I'm really worried that there may be something wrong and I will gain my weight back. I have have sort of a depression set in as well. I'm not sure if that is normal or what. I really think I need to see someone about it. I haven't been exercising either. I got a membership to the YMCA a couple of weeks ago but I have only been 3 times. Wow, kinda sounds like I'm falling apart here.
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Update
on October 31, 2011 5:48 am
Haven't updated in a while. I'm at 155 right now. I can see that I have gained in my pics. I can also tell when I put on my jeans. My size 8's are tight. I haven't been exercising regularly so I think that's what I'm going to have to do the lose this. I want to be at 140 and stay there. I know that I can. At least I have 15 lbs to lose and not 100. It's going to have to be the "old fashioned way' since I am 2 years out. I can tell my hips are hurting again and it's not as easy to get up anymore after sitting or laying down. I just hope I don't fall back into an old routine. I have been doing the emotional eating again and wanting sweets. I just got out of a relationship and that was pretty devastating. I need to get some balance and not slip into a depression. Need something to look forward to, some kind of goal to work towards.
On a better note~ I AM 92 LBS LIGHTER THAN I WAS 2 YEARS AGO!!
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Never again
on July 12, 2011 5:24 am
I was just looking at my before pics and thinking. NEVER, NEVER, NEVER, NEVER AGAIN will I ever be that big. I don't care if I have to hair lip hell!! I will do what ever it takes to keep from ever getting that big again. I have heard of people gaining back their weight but I will do whatever it have to do to keep that from happening. I have been gaining some and honestly I don't know exactly how much because I have packed away my scale. I been weighing on my granny's scale but it can't really be right. I have looked at some pics of me taken recently and I can tell that I have gained. It looks more like about 20 lbs not the 13 lbs that the scale is showing. So here I go!! I'm gonna take this weight back off if it's the last thing I do!


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21 months out
on July 6, 2011 6:24 am
I haven't been on here in forever!  I have been busy with life I guess you could say. I have been building a house since April with the help of Habitat for Humanity. Things are definitely going my way for once. I have been dating again. No one seriously. I have been going out a lot with friends. This is a lot of fun. People are finally getting used to the new me. 
I have been living with my grandmother since May 15. Doing this while I build my house. I have been having some financial "mishaps". Hopefully I will be able to dig my way out of this financial hole I'm in soon.
I have been struggling again with my weight loss. I have gotten back up to 154 lbs. I really hope this is not a continuing trend and that I can stop this before it gets out of hand. I have been eating way more than I used to. The sweets are my downfall. I have to eat quite a bit to get sick. Then I go and do it again. It seems like I can eat just about what I used to. I know this is probably not the case but after only being able to eat tiny amounts it just seems so weird to be able to eat more. I think my problem is that I have been so used to trying to stuff as much food as possible in my pouch to keep my strength up that I can't get used to not doing that. I'm still eating to full and eating more than I should. Also the food doesn't stick around for long. I can eat about every 2 hrs not matter how much I just ate. I think I'm going to try one of my old tricks which is just eating till comfortably full and waiting till I'm certain I'm hungry before eating again. I'm going to have to listen to the cues better. I just really really hope that I can do this.
Another thing I have noticed that I do is I tend to want to eat softer foods. I steer clear of firm, lean proteins like chicken, beef and fish. I know this is a no-no since the slider foods are gonna make me gain. It's just so much more comfortable to eat the bad stuff. I'm definitely gonna have to change some bad habits. I know that I can because I have already changed somethings that I never thought I would ever be able to. I no longer drink sweetened drinks and carbonated drinks. Also I'm going to have to watch separating the fluids from the solids. I can wait after eating to drink but I have trouble waiting to eat after I drink. I'm going to have to work on that. I can tell a difference if I wait at least 15 mins. I just cant seem to bring myself to wait 30 mins. But if I eat too soon after drinking the food doesn't seem to stick with me.
I'm soooo gonna have to start exercising! I have been having some fatigue lately. I need to keep up with my vitamins more as well. I been getting the b-12 shot the past couple of months and I can tell a difference when its tine to get it again.
It's weird how 10-12 lbs can make such a difference when you weigh so much less. At 250 lbs that much doesn't make hardly any difference
I have got to get back into support group too. I have really slacked off with that.  I haven't been to a meeting in months. Not since before Thanksgiving.
It has been 21 months since my surgery. Basically what it all boils down to is I need to get my head out of my ass
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I'm 34 years old. I have been over weight for about 10 years. Before that I was always a normal weight. I was even considered underweight when I was a child. I started gaining weight about the time my marriage fell apart. I was put on Paxil for depression and gained 80 lbs in 6 months! I lost 60 lbs of that when I got divorced but then the weight gradually crept back on. At the first of the year I was at an all time high of 247. I have decided to have weight loss surgery about 3 years ago but I didn't have insurance that would cover it. I have since changed insurance. I have done a lot of research about the different types of surgery. I had an appt with my pcp in Jan and asked her what she thought about my having the surgery. She said she thought it was a good idea. She has seen me struggle with my weight for years. I weigh more now than ever in my life, and now it seems like I gain weight so easily. I have made this decision mostly because I have started to have a lot of medical problems. I have high blood pressure, high cholesterol and triglycerides, asthma, urinary incontinence, GERD and I found out recently that I have sleep apnea and high blood sugar. It seems like about every 6 months or so something else pops up that I need medication for. I'm going to have the RNY. I should have surgery the first of Oct .
 January 2009- spoke with PCP about surgery
 February 2009- attended a surgical weight loss info session
 March 2009- had 1st appt with surgeon, began 6 months supervised weight loss program
 April 2009- visit with nurse practitioner, nutritionist
 May 2009- visit with nurse practitioner, nutritionist, Sleep study at sleep center
 June 2009- visit with nurse practitioner, nutritionist
 July 2009- visit with nurse practitioner
 Aug 2009- finished all testing, got insurance approval, lost required 5% body weight
 Sept 2009- visit with surgeon, start 2 week liquid diet sept 16
 SEPT 30, 2009- SURGERY!

LBS LOST:
prior to surgery: 21 lbs
Month 1-   21 lbs
Month 2-  15 lbs
Month 3-  6 lbs 
Month 4-  7 lbs 
Month 5-  5 lbs
Month 6-  6 lbs
Month 7-  6 lbs
Month 8-  5 lbs
Month 9-  2 lbs
Month 10- 4 lbs
Month 11- 2 lbs
Month 12- 0 lbs