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  • Username: greeneyegurl1980
  • Location: Weirton, WV, USA
  • Member Since: 6/6/2007
  • BMI: 47.9
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (12/19/08)
  • Surgeon: Jorge Urbandt
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  • Comment by Tom B. on 12/17/08 3:40 pm
    Good Luck on your surgery. May it be uneventful and a very quick recovery.
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6 1/2 months out
on July 12, 2009 6:04 pm
Ok so I am not good at updating and I know this lol. I am currently 6 1/2 months out and am down from 342 to 235. I am very proud of how much I have lost and am very excited for the future.

I recently had a small complication due to the surgery and that was an internal hernia. They were not able to find it through a cat scan so they did a camera in my belly and repaired it then. I have a wonderful doctor and am very pleased by how he took care of me and made sure I was back to normal.

I am now noticing my weight loss slowing down and it is very aggravating at times. I am also now able to eat more and find myself more hungery so I am now trying to make sure I stay on track.

I am going to post some updated pics soon. Hope everyone else is having a great summer.
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2 month post op appt
on February 10, 2009 7:42 pm
     Today was my 2 month checkup even though I don't hit 2 months until the 19th. The appt went really well. I have been basing my weight loss at 333 day of surgery but I made a mistake and it was actually 336, so technically I am down 42 lbs instead of the 38. I was worried because it seemed like everyone was losing so much more than me but now that I found out my true weight I feel so much better. He said I have lost 21% which is wonderful. 

     I am starting to notice the difference a little more now. I tried on a pair of my older 24 jeans and they fit perfectly..I was estatic. I also am fitting a lot better in my shirts and those stupid chairs at the doctors office lol. I am just so into myself right now :)

     I fell off the bandwagon and stopped journaling my food but I started it back up. I feel that it helps me a lot. I am dedicated to keep it up.

     Well I just wanted to give a little update...
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2 month post op appt
on February 10, 2009 7:42 pm

 

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2 weeks and 5 days out
on January 7, 2009 7:45 pm
I am horrible about updating anything that consists of me putting words down!

Well i had my surgery on December 19th and it went really well w/o any complications. I was really nervous at first but they gave me some good medicine  and it made me feel alot better until they wheeled me back to the OR. Once they took me back I was in the hall and bawling my eyes out. The angel nurse lol came and held my hand and gave me more feel good medicine. After they transfered me to the table I don't remember anything else! I must say that was the BEST sleep I have ever had and made a suggestion that they let me do that at least 3 x a week.

My stay in the hospital was ok, I didn't feel like the nurses were as helpful as I would of liked them to be but I did have my husband and mom there. I was up within 4 hours of surgery ready to walk. I tolerated water and everything else they gave me fine. I did so good that I was able to come home then next day (20th). Of course as soon as I got home I got on that dang scale  and noticed that I was up a few lbs. Day of surgery I was 333 and when I came home I was 335. I lost a bunch of water weight though within those few days and got down to 318. I was stuck at 318 for about a week and am now down to 313 so that's a total of 20 lbs.

I was truly feeling like I was doing something wrong because everyone else was losing about 30 lbs their first few weeks but realized that everyone is different and I should be thankful of the 20 that I did lose.

I am starting on more solid foods but chewing really well. I have not had any problems w/ food other than sugar free pudding... let me tell you that is the devil lol..It made my belly hurt so bad that I cannot even look at it anymore.

Well I just wanted to update a little bit and I hope everyone is doing great..

Oh yea I started working out and also started at curves..woo hoo for me
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My insurance is approved and I have a possible date
on December 9, 2008 2:50 pm
     Went to my appt today and they told me that my insur has approved my surgery. I am so excited and blessed because at first I didn't think it was going to get approved because of some miscommunication between the insur co and the doctors office. But it all fell through. Not to mention my ins is changing on the 1st of Jan so it's VERY important that I get the surgery this month or I am going to have to pay!

     The doctor told me there is a STRONG possiblity that I will be able to get the surgery on December 19th because of a possible cancellation. He said that he really thinks this person is not going to be able to get the surgery because of problems w/ her insurance co. I feel horrible for saying that I hope it falls through on my behalf...but hey we got to look out for ourselves once in awhile...lol..

     I am very nervous but excited at the same time. I have never had surgery so I don't know what to expect not to mention I am afraid to be put to sleep. But God has my back and will watch over me.

     I have decided to do some video blogs on youtube after i watched a series of blogs from massagegoddess and to be honest they have given me a lot of inspiration. I think it's important for post op patients to watch other peoples progress and opinions. So therefore I am also going to do one.

     Well I am off to record my video blog so if you get a chance check it out you can look me up by typing greeneyegurl1980.
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Ever since I was a little girl I could always remember being the chubbier one in the group. As I flip through pictures of me as a child now, I just don't see where I was chubby when I was a child. In my eyes I looked average but when I look at a picture of me when I was standing next to my friends I can see the difference. They were stick thin and I was a little thick. I guess in the 80's if you weren't stick thin then you were considered fat.

As I was growing up I was always getting teased for being a little bit thicker than everyone else. As a child that hurt! The only way I could deal with it was to run home cry and eat some cookies. I guess after all those nights running home crying and eating cookies really caught up with me. Now I am no longer thicker than my friends I am actually two of them if not three.

Even though I was teased alot I still held my head up high. I for some reason still had a little bit of self esteem left. It got to the point that when people made fun of me I no longer cried I made fun of myself with them. It made it easier on me and it also made people like me. They considered it as me having a great personality, I considered it as just getting by another day without breaking down.

As I entered middle school and high school I developed a hatred towards men of my own color. It is so weird but it happened. I guess it's because that all my life the most harsh people were the ones that were white. Then my dad was very predjudice. Even though all my life he lived in another state he was very vocal with is views. I didn't like that, I was not like him. It just seemed to me that every white man I was around was rude and ignorant no matter if it was teasing me because I was fat or if it was them just being judgemental all the time.I guess by being teased for so long by white guys and then for my dad to have so much hatred towards people it just got me to the point where I couldn't stand white men. I'm still that way to a certain point. I'm white but I cannot stand men that are white. I guess that's why I have never had a white boyfriend. My boyfriends were always black and I developed and extreme attraction to black men. It seemed that they accepted me more. They thought I was attractive. What the white guy considered fat (170lbs high school) my boyfriend considered that sexy. That made me feel good. That made me feel like there was nothing I had to change about myself because finally somebody accepted me for who I was. All my friends were black and they all was curvy like myself.

I guess all that acceptence made my head big and my body also. Because unfortunatly I didn't stay 170lbs long. I just kept getting bigger and bigger. Now i'm 342 lbs. I'm still accepted by my husband and friends but I am not longer accepted by ME!! I just cannot do it anymore. I am constantly thinking about dieing of a heart attack or stroke to the point where I have extremem anxiety over it. So it's time for a change.

I tried losing weight the right way. It didn't work. I barely lost 10 lbs. i don't know what the problem is but I know for a fact that I cannot keep doing this and keep getting bigger. Everytime I go out with my husband and try to get dressed and look pretty I cry. I feel like i'm not good enough for him. He tell's me i'm beautiful and he loves me the way I am but I don't love myself. How can I not love myself.

So I am now 28 married to a Marine with 2 beautiful children. I am now to the point in my life where I'm ready to begin this journey. I 'm ready to prove everyone that said I will always be fat wrong. I'm ready to show them that I can do it. With the right tools I can accomplish this journey...and I will!!!!!!