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Feeling GREAT!!!!!
on August 22, 2008 6:53 am
Well I don't get to post everyday like I want but I am feeling great. Still going to the gym and working out for an hour at a time. I have gotten busy school is fixing to start and football season is here for my son. I am so busy and  almost don't have time to eat. I am never hungry and I still have to make myself eat something. All in all I am great and I am loving my band.
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8lbs in 1 week are we sure
on August 15, 2008 6:55 am
Ok I know I have been exercising and sweating my butt off but 8 lbs in 1 week. I weighed to day because I felt a little light and I wanted to see if my first fill had helped me lose 4 more lbs well the scale was down 8 lbs and I was like really that would bring my weight loss up to 34 lbs is this denile for me or am I just losing my mind I thought. Needless to say I am happy almost at the 40 lb mark and only 2 months post op that is amazing.
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Doing good just a thought.
on August 12, 2008 10:03 am
People always want to say that weight loss is easy and that you can do it on your own. Well I have news for the speak before you go through it people weight loss is not easy and surgery for it is not either. I have lost a total of 26 lbs and people are like WOW what are you doing so I tell them what I have had and what I am having to go through and it's like you could do that own your own. Yea and I am like you can have a baby on your own also correct!!! So I am no longer going to tell people that I had surgery I am going to let them think that I am doing it all on my own just to see if that influences them to try it on their own and see how far they get. I know rude but I am just that kind of person when it comes to somethings.
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First fill!!!
on August 7, 2008 4:07 am
Ok so I had my first fill yesterday and It was not that bad. I was all nervous for nothing. Things went very smooth I was only stuck once but he had to do a little digging because he was on the side of my port. When he finally hit my port I felt a little pop and I was like that is it and he was like yes you are correct. When he pushed the fluid into my port I could feel it and it felt like when you drink to much water and it is in your wind pipes I almost thought I was fixing to throw up. My dr said that people usually don't feel it that I was a special case little does he know how correct he was. Well I am down another 3 lbs which is great I am down to 360 lbs and I have not weighed that in about 3 years so I am happy and can't wait to get to 350 I think I might lose my mind when I get that low and with ever weight loss I get closer to being under 300 lbs is like sitting in heaven eating ice cream with God.
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Working out is working out!!!
on August 5, 2008 5:44 am
Okay so last week I was very sore from my first real workout. I worked out again that Friday to relieve some of the sorness. I must say it did work for a little bit but the sorness returned. Well on Monday I worked out for hour in a half and I feel great. Like I said this working out is working out for me. I am goning on August 7 to get my first fill. I am a little worried but I know I will be fine.
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My Story

I was never really a skinny kid but I was never considered big either. I am 5'10 and big boned with a history of big women in my family. To me I was on the wrong side of the genes from the start (I blame my family genes). When I graduated high school I weighed 200lbs and thought I was the BOOM! Then I had my first child and jumped to 265lbs yes I did. I lost 40lbs and then went through a horrible break-up and it was then that I realized that food was my best friend and I confided in it on a regular basis. When I woke up and realized that not talking about my issues and eating the pain away did me no good I weighed 295lbs. I was like what have I done in two years I had gained another person. Then I began to lose weight again and feel happy about myself and ended up pregnant with another child. When I delivered my son I weighed 340lbs. I felt like a whale that walked the earth and I wanted the old me back I was lost inside my fat somewhere dying to come out. I know that sounds strange but that is how I felt on the inside I felt small but it did not match what was on the outside. I got sick when my son was about 4 years old and had to go on steroids and my weight shot up to 365lbs and I was stuck there for 4 years. I could lose down to 350lbs but never could go any lower. Then I would always gain more back than what I had lost. 

In October of 2006 I decided that I need to do something about my weight. I had to lose weight to let the real me out so I started looking at WLS options that was out there. I tried diet pills, low carb, low calorie, and 3 day diets but nothing worked. Then I heard about Lap Band. I researched and searched out people who had the surgery and what their results were. By December 2006 I had went to the Lap Band workshop, had a psych evaluation and set a date for January 2008. When I went for my pre-op appointment I was crushed my psych said he was worried about me and that that I was hearing voices and thought I was skitzo. I was like WHAT!!! are you kidding me I don't hear nothing. I was blessed with a Dr. that I had worked around before and he know me because he was like I don't believe that for one moment and then there was that BUT we have to see this through and you have to get reevaluated. I was like what I got to go through all that again I was thinking all those bubbles and questions when this is over I really am going to have issues LoL. Well that process took a whole year because between school, my children, and providing I did not have any spare time for anything. A whole year past and in January 2008 I restarted the process. I took the whole test over and was cleared. I scheduled my surgery for June 24, 2008 and was ready to start my journey to the real me.


 


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