Dawnyel B.
2 weeks 4 days out
Jul 28, 2007
I weigh 200 pounds now and my BMI is 35.4!! according to my surgeons office I've lost 21 pounds! but I was 217 morning of surgery, not 221, so according to me, I've lost 17 pounds. I'm hoping to loose 20 this first month, and it will probably happen. When I was doing diets before surgery I could loose weight really fast, but it was hard to keep it off. Now, I'm either the same or less every day and it's no more of that going up 4 pounds in one day. I hated that!!
-Dawnyel
298/200/140
One Week Out
Jul 17, 2007
Alright!
So it's been one week since surgery, and I'm doing fantastic! Getting all my protein and water in, no prob! umm, I'm feeling rumbly, and a bunch of head hunger, I wish I could eat everything!!! on the good side!!! I weigh 203, I can't imagine!!!! I went in morning of surgery at 217 and I'm 203, in just 7 short days!!!!!!!!!!
-Dawnyel
7 days 14 pounds!
11 hours to surgery!
Jul 09, 2007
Ok,
11 hours and counting, in 11 hours I will be at the hospital, getting my IV started and prepped for surgery. The only thing that really realy SUCKS is my mom and husband can't come in with me while they prep me, which usually takes a couple hours... no? I've never done this before, been by myself. I probably look like a big baby, but I'm not, I just get anxious easy.
Today was so hard, doing the clear liquids for a whole day has been so hard! the operating room scheduler called me at 11:48 and told me I need to check in for surgery at 7:15. I'm worried, because I'm not really worried! I've had surgery before and everything has been fine, but I'm worried that it hasn't hit me yet. It hasn't hit me that I'm going in for surgery in 11 hours. Maybe when I lay down to go to sleep in 1/2 hour it will hit me.
I pray I'll be able to sleep tonight!
Getting a tad nervous
Jul 07, 2007
Surgery is in, lets say 2 days, 2 full days anyway. Tomorrow is my last day of real food, and I'm happy for that. yesterday I didn't overdo it with food, and I'm actually down a couple pounds. Earlier this week I was at 221 in the morning, and I was 218 this morning. SO happy, because the doc said it'd be good to loose a little before surgery and I wasn't. He also said he'd be able to tell if I had gained or lost once he got inside.
I love this website! I can't put anything pertaining to this surgery thing on my myspace because I have some of my mom's friends' kids on there as friends and my surgery is a big secret to them because they don't believe in surgery, let alone going to the doctors. So I get to shout out my feelings here instead. I can't wait to start posting photo's of myself as the weight drops off!
I am getting sort of nervous though, Monday everything will become a reality though. I have to do clear liquids the whole entire day, and nothing after midnight. The next day I get nothing untill well after surgery. The more I think about it the more nervous I get, but at least I've been able to sleep the past few nights. I did have a bout of insomnia there for a while! lol
-I'll write more tomorrow
-Dawnyel
300/218/130
Inches!
Jul 05, 2007
My measurements: 10/13/06
Weight: 260
Neck: 15 3/4
Bust: 48 1/2
Below: 40 1/2
Waist: 47
Hips: 58 1/2
Upper arm 19 1/2
Thigh: 28
Calf: 19 1/2
My measurements: 7/5/07
Weight: 220
Neck: 14
Bust: 41 1/2
Under: 36 1/2
Waist: 42
Hips: 52
Upper Arm 17
Thigh: 23
Calf 18
If my calculations are correct, I've lost a total of 40 pounds, and 33 1/4 inches since last October. October wasn't my biggest though, I wish I had measurements from when I was my biggest!
I can't wait to see what I look lke when I'm done loosing all my weight. Speaking of loosing weight... my surgery is in 5 days!!!!!!! you heard ight.. 5! that means I only have 3 days left of food. Because I definatly won't eat anything on surgery day, and the day before surgery all I get is water, and clear liquids =) oh, I'm just so excited!
-Dawnyel
8 Days of "real" food
Jul 01, 2007
I'm writing all of this now so that I will remember it when I'm post op. I will remember what all I went through to get to this. I will remember how horribile I used to feel when I ate too much. When I eat sushi, and too much of it, I get this pain in my side when I breathe in, and it's horrible. Sushi is sooo good though, I hope I'm able to eat a little bit of it after I heal from surgery. I'm wondering if I'm going to miss food, even though I will be able to have almost anything. I wonder how fast my weight will come off, and I wonder if age has anything to do with that?
I just feel so... excited I guess. I have so many thoughts and ideas about life after surgery. I guess I don't REALLY know how to feel. The past couple days it's taken me 1-2 hours to fall asleep because I keep thinking and praying about surgery. I just can't believe it's 8 more days of solid food, and then 6 weeks of liquids!
I will be posting ALOT post op, hopefully every week. I'm hoping for a 20-25lb loss by my first post op appt! I'm gonna work my butt off! or at least try my hardest to!
God Bless,
300/217/130?
