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Robert Marvin, M.D.
Dr. Marvin is great! I met him on my 37th birthday...one week before my sugery. He answered all questions that I had before I had a chance to ask them. I felt that he was very thourough during the visit and after my surgery...well, I think he is the SURGEON CHAMP!!! Thank you Dr. Marvin for saving my life!

****Does everyone know that Dr. Marvin left Obesity Surgery Specialists?? He has his own practice down in the medical center.****
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  • Comment by Debbie R. on 1/7/08 8:05 pm
    Good luck tomorrow! I'll be right there with you on the loser's bench!
  • Comment by judyanne on 1/5/08 4:32 pm
    Tuesday is your day! Just remember you are on the journey of a lifetime. Try to enjoy every minute. It may sound weird now, but know that you are cared for and prayed for here, and all too soon this will be but a memory and you will be an inspiration to someone else. I am waiting for you on the losers' bench! ~JudyAnne~
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Milestones...
on April 11, 2008 8:10 am

Well, well...where to begin...it has been SO LONG since I have posted on here!!

Let's see...I finally had surgery on 1/8/08 and everything went VERY WELL.  I just celebrated my 3 month surgiversary and I must say I am very pleased with the results thus far.

As of today I've lost 70 lbs. that means I only have 100 lbs. to go before I reach my goal weight loss of 170 lbs.

I must be honest and say the road looked very long back in January but now I am sailing right through, month after month.  The only problems I am having really is vitamin deficiancy and protein.  Before the surgery I thought it would be a walk in the park to eat 60-70 grams of protein a day but after the surgery...it really is hard b/c even though something may have 12 grams of protein in it, I can't eat all of it!!  Sometimes that gets discouraging but not enough to regret the surgery.

I hope everyone reading this is doing well either on their journey to have the surgery or with your post op days...

God Bless-
Amy

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More Good News!
on October 30, 2007 1:15 pm


Well, I found out last Thursday that my surgery has been approved by my insurance company!  I am so excited that I cannot hardly stand myself!!

I don't have much more to say right now...I'm off to the doctor Thursday for my H-pylori test and blood work!!!  Wish me luck!!

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Good News
on October 25, 2007 11:43 am

Today has been a good day.  Today is the first day that I woke up and new for certain that the rest of my life was about to change forever.  Yesterday was the day I got the news that my insurance (BC/BS of Illinois) approved my surgery!!  I was so happy on the phone, I started crying.  I don't remember being this happy since I gave birth over 5 years ago. 

I have friends who have had both procedures done with VERY little effort on their parts.  I was a little envious of them b/c I have struggled for years to get an approval only to be told NO everytime.  Not this time.

I don't have a surgery date yet, I've got to do blood wokr and my H-pylori test and then I'm all set.  If I could do it all today, I would.

Please keep me in your prayers.  I have been praying for so long for this and I do give God the glory for the approval.  I know this was in His plan for me and I am so greatful!!

Talk to everyone again real soon!!

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Trying to use OH to the best of my ability
on May 29, 2007 8:05 pm
5/29/07 - This is my first time to blog on here...I am going through the 6 month medically supervised diet right now...it is a little frustrating having to wait to long...it seems as if I have been waiting forever!  I initially started this process over 18 months ago when my previous employers insurance told me the surgery would be covered with no problem and then when Dr. Marvin's office submitted for approval I was denyed b/c of an exclusion on our policy.  

I now have BC/BS of Illinois and I was told by Dr. Marvin's office that it is really hard to get approval from them but from other profiles I have visited, they didn't have any problems so cross your fingers.

Next week is my 3 month visit with the dietician and weigh-in.  I am hoping to have lost at least 2-3 lbs.  This is so hard to do!  I want to have the surgery so that I have the tool to help me control my eating and become a much healthier person...so this whole diet thing is very stressful!

I will write more next week after my meeting.
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My Story

My story.  I don't have a big dramatic story from childhood, all I can tell you is that I have been overweight for the better part of my life.  I wore an 18 months until I was almost 3 years old so I didn't start out big.  I think my biggest problem was that I was never told no when it came to food.  My grandparents owned a neighborhood store and we never had to ask for anything...it was ours if we wanted it.  Candy, chips, coke or gum.  It didn't matter.  In the second grade my pop-pop (grandfather) would pick me up from school and take me across the street to McDonalds.  I would get a happy meal even though I had only had lunch a couple of hours before...and then dinner time would roll around about 5, only 3 hours after eating my happy meal.  So you see how it all got started and it only escalated from there.  

I have always been a happy person and loved life.  I still do.  Being overweight never changed that for me.  I did grow up with my feeling being hurt b/c of the name calling and I would make jokes ABOUT myself to hide the pain.

I don't think it was until I was an adult that I really realized that I had a problem.  I used to go out to the bars and have a great time.  My weight never hindered me socially.  After I had my daughter 5 years ago I really began to feel the 300 lbs. I was carrying around with me.  It didn't really hit me hard until she got big enough to ride stuff at the rodeo carnival or the festivals that we attend.  I can't wait to do that stuff with her!  Next year we are going to San Antonio to Fiesta Texas (b/c we lost our Astroworld) and we are going to ride everything there!

Wish me luck on my journey...I'm wishing all of you luck with your new life!  I hope it is everything you dreamed it would be and then some!!

 


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