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  • Username: DukesMom
  • Location: Camp Lejeune, NC, USA
  • Member Since: 3/10/2008
  • BMI: 47.8
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (03/20/08)
  • Surgeon: Chris Mann
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Goals

make it through my surgery with no complications.

Category: Health   
25 People
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20 People
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TO BE A SUCCESS STORY!!!!!!!

Category: Emotional Wellbeing   
9 People
 in progress, 
0 People
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to be able to wear sexy clothes and actually look sexy in them

Category: Emotional Wellbeing   
15 People
 in progress, 
1 Person
 achieved this

To learn how to relax and not feel so uptight

Category: Emotional Wellbeing   
1 Person
 in progress, 
0 People
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Surgeon Testimonial

Chris Mann
I think this man is wonderful. HE answered all my questions and was very thourgh with his answers. After having to suffer through so many Military doctors and doctors in general telling me I am TOO FAT... and to "just lose the weight". I think this person can really help me to achive that... HE is a true blessing..

I will write more later once the surgery is compete..
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Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Lisa_W. on 3/19/08 9:33 am
    Cory: Best of luck as you embark on a new phase of your life...to be happy and healthy. You will do great! Lisa
  • Comment by Nancy W. on 3/19/08 8:59 am
    Looking forward to meeting you soon. Best of luck tomorrow- pretty soon you'll be a looser like me! lol Hugs, Nancy
  • Comment by so_blessed on 3/19/08 8:50 am
    Cory, You are gonna do GREAT!!! You are in my thoughts and prayers!! BE BLESSED! Andrea
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My story.. 

Well my whole life the first thing I remember is "food". Every family event has a TON of food, every time our family gets together it has to be about FOOD..

I had a grandmother who believed that if you were not skinny- or atleast a healthy weight you wern't worth anything. She moved in with us when I was about 11 and from that time on all I heard from her was how heavy I was. My mother is also obsessed with weight. She emotionally brain washed her as well. 
I finally got fed up and decided I was tired of the weight. I wanted to feel heathy again.. I wanted to feel SEXY again and feel like men wanted me.
I have suffered emotional abuse and abusive boyfriends in the past and It has been a long RECOVERY from there words and actions.

But now I am incharge.. I am resoponsible for myself and I want to live a long long time and my weight was getting to the point it was cutting my life short.

I am excited to start this ADVENTURE.. It is many years in the thinking and a lot of time in the making.

I look forward to recieving support from Women and men who have made the change with me.

Thanks and I PLAN TO BE SUCCESSFUL.

Dukes MOM
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Doing Great.. Feeling awsome...
on July 29, 2008 7:58 pm
Yes, I am still  alive and doing  great. I am almost over the 200 mark.. I am so excited that I am finally here.. I didn't think I would ever see this number again.. I have been hovering here for a while- I think my body is having a hard time saying good bye to the 200's.. But I am almost over it.

Once I get under 200 my husband has to quit SMOKING.. can't wait.. to see him deal with his addiction.. I think they give out Malborows at boot camp and he has been smoking since he cam in the USMC.. almost at 20 now..
NEED TO QUIT.. just like I needed to lose weight to be here for my children.

So happy..

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I am so Happy I did this..
on May 11, 2008 6:11 pm
Wow what a weekend I had.

My grandmother died about a week and a half ago and she lived in California. This weekend was her memorial service and so I went...living my children and husband.. oh what fun that was- i GOT SO MUCH READING AND COMPUTER WORK DONE IT WAS GREAT..

The best part of the "sad" weekend was flying on the airplane.. i fit in the seat without a Seatbelt extender.. It was like EATING CHOCOLATE.. I was so excited to be on mulitpule planes without be embarressed to ask for a seat beat extender.. I wanted to shout it to the World.. I didn't need one.. 

I got MULITPLE compliments for my extended family on how "great" I looked.. It really was so worth it all..

The ONLY hard thing about the whole trip besides grieving was trying to find eatable FOOD in the airport.. Ofcourse I tired something I shouldn't have on the way home and was nauses on the crazy flight home.. which was over an hour and a half past the departure time.. I am tired.. Flying from California to eastern NC in one day.. takes a lot out of you... but 
still happy I had the experiance of NO SEATBELT EXTENDER.. I COULD EVEN MAKE IT SMALLER.. 

yeah.....
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It's almost a month
on April 17, 2008 6:50 pm
Wow.. What a blessing this surgery has been in my life.. I can not get over the difference of 30 pds. 

Well this week I began REALLY EXCERSING.. That was interesting. I started ROLLER BLADEING.. This week was spring Break so I had to take my kids with me.. and I so enjoyed having them with me. 

I have actually wanted to excersise.. That hasn't happened since I was in high school. 

Eating has gotten better. Not as many things have been hurting as much as they go down. I go back to the Dr. tomorrow so it will be interesting what he says. 

I was getting worried there for a while that maybe I had a blockage of some kind cause for a few days there even water was hurting.

Still haveing PROTEIN problems. Still can't get enough in.. Will ask that question to the dr. as well.

My WEIRD hives have gone away.. after 3 days of predisone.. Who knows what that was about. HOPE it doesn't happen again.

Well 30 pounds off.. Thank you Lord... I can't wait to see more come off.
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I AM ALIVE AND I HAVE MADE IT 3 WEEKS...
on April 10, 2008 6:58 am

WOW.. 

What an adventure this is.. I am feeling a bit frustrated.. I don't know what to eat.. and I am having a hard time finding things that I want to eat.. I am in the puree stage now and I HATE IT..

I am getting kind of worried the books say if I you don't meet your protein things will start happeing.. I know I have not been meeting my protein...

I keep trying to eat mashed foods but they seem to get stuck going down.. The only thing I would have changed about this whole process would be to have had more EDUCATION on what to eat and when and how to eat it.. I feel that is the only area that I am lacking.. The packet the Dr. gave me seems so "general" that it's hard to know if I am doing the right thing..

I did have a great moment this week...

 I was wearing a pair of pants that I wore up to Greenville on the night before my surgery.. and as I was walking around the other night my husband and his parents said.. Uh,, do you think you could pull up your pants?

I laughed and about did a jig.. I HAVE NEVER HAD A PAIR OF PANTS FALL OFF ME.. I went into the bathroom and moved my hips a bit and they fell to the floor.

 NO ONE had told me all day that my pants were falling off. I wasn't paying attention.. My shirt was holding them up.. I thought.... but no.. My underwear was sticking out and and my pants were almost at my hips..

So worth it.. just to have that feeling..

HELP WITH EATING SUGGESTIONS... PLEASE..

I AM DOWN OVER 20 PDS.. IN 3 WEEKS.. 

Praise the Lord..


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Offically two weeks.
on April 3, 2008 6:57 am
Praise the LORD..no more clear liquids... That was very hard to get through.. But I am down 14-20 pounds..depending on which starting weight you look at..ie. hospital check in weight or Weight loss surgery start weight.

So.. I am feeling better each day. Got the stiches out- still pain in the left side but it is getting better each day as well. 

Figuring out exactley what to eat is sort of hard.. I think I can eat it and then after about 4 bites... NAUSA... UH.. haven't gotten sick yet but I think my body was telling me I needed it mushyer.. I am so glad I did this.. I love feeling better.

Thats it for today..
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