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To be thinner than my husband

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Wear Size 12 jeans

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Wear shorts in public

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Make exercise my transfer additction!

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Member Interests
  • Books & Literature - Harry Potter fanatic...litteraly ... I have a tattoo of the golden snitch.
  • Cats - Dax and Nola both gray and white tabbies
  • Musical Performance - I am a karaoke queen! woohoo!
  • Bicycling - I love going on the trails around where I live
  • Nursing - I am an LPN and currently in an Associate Degree RN program.

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Bummed
on February 1, 2011 1:03 pm
 Still doing good...weight loss seems to be going really really slowly although I am on my cycle right now so may be retaining fluids at least that is my hope since the scale didnt go down this morning at all. I am bummed out a bit since I was getting a bit excited at the prospect of joining the Army Nurse Corps when I lost enough weight and got my BSN in Nursing only to find that the Army has a policy that disqualifies you from entering if you have had any weight loss surgery. I don't know if they will waiver that if you are in the medical field or not so if anyone knows any additional information please let me know. Thanks!
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Updates
on January 25, 2011 1:12 pm
 Okay so I have been crazy busy at school and didn't get to the gym this week or last week! Since my surgery (Dec. 15th) I have lost 35 lbs as of this past Friday. I am still having issues getting in my protein along with pureed foods. Although I have been eating a lot of soup and just chewing it up a lot to make it pureed. I think I am doing pretty well other then the not getting in the exercise time. That should change tomorrow though since I will head to the hospital for clinical's and I will be running around like crazy when I am there...that should count as a little bit of exercise at least! Anyway, I have felt pretty good once I got over my bit of opiate withdrawal when I stopped taking my pain medication and couldn't sleep for almost a week. I am finally trying to get organized with school and get things done early. I really really just wish it was May already so I could be done with school but that is just not gonna happen. Hubby is home though he got here right before New Year Eve and has been an angel with cleaning up the house while i am going stir crazy with assignments. He is on leave for two weeks and has been cleaning when not playing video games or World of Warcraft. I am doing good with all my vitamin intake and meds other then Nexium just cause it tastes so nasty I cant seem to force it down unless I am super stressed and think i need it so I don't worsen my ulcers. I think I just need to start waking up earlier to do some kind of workout prior to class. That is going to be my new goal....wake up earlier and workout before class. 
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Discharged today
on December 18, 2010 7:10 pm
So I got discharged today and so far everything is going good. The worst part has been the trapped gas that hurts like hell! but I have been walking like crazy to get rid of it! Oh also they had been giving me tylenol grape liquid with oxycodon and the tylenol was so sweet it was making me dry heave and feel like shit for a while so I stoped taking that and just took oxycodon! I am home now with my mom helping me recover we are gonna go walk around the mall tomorrow. I will come on here again a little later maybe after my drain comes out on Monday.
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Surgery tomorrow
on December 14, 2010 7:40 pm
My surgery is tomorrow. I go in at 6am....please pray for me ya'll and that things go well with no complications. My Mom is here to help me when I get out of the hospital. I hope I don't forget anything. Starting to get a little nervous...but more just wanting to sleep until I am done and recovered!
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EGD and things to see (yeah lame I know but I love...
on November 29, 2010 5:18 pm
Okay so the EGD went swimmingly. My friend Jo picked me up and dropped me off at the hospital at 6am. Got my IV and took a nap until 8am. Got some "happy drugs" from the anesthesiologist that caused uncontrollable smiling and giggling for about a min. then the next thing I remembered was being in the PACU and the nurse taking my V/S and not being able to swallow.  Hung out there for another 10-15 min. and then got wheeled into the reg. room in surgery where I chilled until I could swallow and got some hot tea with honey which felt awesome on my throat which after that wasn't even sore. Got picked up by Jo and headed to my house for a Wheel of Fortune War on the PS3 (very fun! even though I lost....I blame the anesthesia!) Then got some much needed stuff done to prepare for picking up my hubbies new truck tomorrow. Lastly, chatted on one of my groups chat sessions for the first time for about 2 hours. Very productive day I would say. At some point I guess my surgeon had talked to me but I really don't even remember seeing him today at all. But, I do have my apt. slip which was scheduled at some point :)
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Nursing student,  Army wife, Air Force brat, first generation American from my mothers side, little sister, there are a lot of tittles that I am but only one that makes me unhappy and that I have struggled with most of my life...fat. I am going to have RNY in Dec. ...(I would have it sooner ...but due to school I have to have it inbetween semesters)  I have done many different weight loss programs and diets and have lost a little weight but always gained it back. I am doing this because it is a tool that will allow me to have control of myself again and give me the means to be permanently successful. I want to be a good nurse and promote health to others ...its difficult to do that when you are not healthy yourself. I also want to have children and not have high risk pregnancies. So this is my means of getting healthy and maybe when I have lost the weight I will be able to have a child and not worry about diabetes. My husband is totally supportive he loves me as I am and just wants me to be healthy so he knows he will have more time with me. Maybe by graduation in May (five months after my surgery) I will be able to look back and see this year as not only a success for my school accomplishments but as the start of the rest of my life healthy and confident as I haven't been since about age 12. I want to find myself again the person that is lost in these layers that don't belong.