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- Books & Literature - I love to read!!
- Family & Friends - I'm always gone for the weekend seeing my awesome family and friends!
- Theater - I love musicals! I have tix for Wicked in a few months!!!
- Needlework, Knitting & Crocheting - I picked up Knitting a couple of years ago... What can I say? I'm a natural! ;D
- Billiards & Pool - I'm in a league(just for fun!), but I'm gettin' better! When I'm on, I'm on!
- Movies - I'm a movie junkie!!!!
- Music - I would die without Music! All kinds!!!
- Radio & Television - TV more than radio. Who need radio when you've got your IPOD??
- Photography - I'm interested in too many things... I've run out of space! ;)
- Rock - My brother's band plays the Roxy in L.A. this month... I'm SOOO proud of him!!!
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Hi! When I first met with my surgeon I weighed in at 313 lbs! (an all time high!) I have already met so many wonderful people on this website. I had no idea how much this part of the journey would change my life, but I'm so grateful for it! ♥
I hope to keep meeting new people and being inspired by their stories!!
Surgiversary... on May 14, 2008 1:12 pm
Wow.. today is exactly one year since I had my Gastric Bypass Surgery. It has been so long since I've been on OH... I've been doing my blogging on Live Journal. http://kelkelrenee.livejournal.com/ It's been really good for me, but I do miss coming on OH. I just had a conversation with one of my co-workers who had her WLS just 6 days before mine. Discussing WLS related issues with her made me remember how much I need my OH family!
So I'm exactly one year out today. I've gone from a tight size 26 to a size 10, a 3x or 4x to a medium, and from 313 pounds to 170. I have lost 143 lbs so far, but I did set my own goal of 160 and I still have my eyes on that number. Although I feel great, so as long as I'm staying active and eating right I'm not gonna worry about it too much.
My boyfriend and I celebrated 6 months together on Monday and since my surgiversay is today... he took me out last night to celebrate. He took me to PF Changs where I had my favorite, Vegitarian Lettuce Wraps! Very sweet boy! I'm about to have my 31st birthday on the 31st of this month... and I couldn't be more excited. So far, 30 was my best year ever... so I'm down for 31! I'm gonna have a big party since my birthday falls on a Saturday. I'm hoping my dear, dear friend Penny (who came into my life thanks to OH!!) can make it!
Well, it's been a crazy amazing year... I hope that everyone is doing great and is happy with their Journey so far... it really just goes on and on!!
Love,
Kelly
Wow..... on January 18, 2008 9:29 am
Wow... It's been 8 months since my surgery... and I don't recognize the life that I am leading! I'm down 128 pounds so far.. and I just started wearing a size 12 (beats the hell out of the super tight size 26 I was wearing before!) I'm still losing weight... slow and steady... and I've been so busy (I have TWO jobs now) that I haven't been on OH or to my awesome support group in a really long time!
Now, I'm not much for "New Years Resolutions" but I have decided that one thing I want to do is to utilize all the great support tools I have around me. That and make sure that I don't take things for granted and forget that I'm different when it comes to food and nutrition. So I went to my favorite support group the other night and reconnected w/the great people that I haven't seen in months! And I even got a new Gym buddy out of it... 
Anyway, things that are different:
 I've flown three times since my weight loss and can NOT believe the difference! Not only do I have room to relax and don't need an extender.. I can straight up cross my legs in the airplane seat! That blows my mind.
 One of those flights took me to Hawaii. It was so amazing and really the trip of a lifetime. I went w/my Brother and his Girlfriend. I enjoyed every minute of that trip... We went snorkeling at Hanama Bay! You have to walk down a steep hill to get to the beach... and remember, what goes down.. must come up! And as I was walking up the hill... I saw the optional tram going up and down the hill and thought that for sure would have been me on there last year!! It was beautiful... and we are already planning the next trip!
 I took on a second job in addition to the full-time one I already have...and the energy that I have is amazing. I just know that I wouldn't have been able to pull it off before! I work at an Arena here in San Jose, where the hockey team the Sharks play! It's really a lot of fun. The crowds are generally great and I've actually gotten used to going up and down all those arena stairs 10 plus times a game!! There are several regulars who are really friendly and there's an older guy who I became friends with and just found out that he had his Gastric Bypass almost three years ago! It's so funny how you find people who can relate everywhere you go!
 I've got my flexi back! LOL When I was a little girl I was so flexible, I used to sit around twisting myself into pretzels!! These days it's just like old times! I want to take up Yoga so I can put this stuff to good use! In general the physical stuff is crazy... Just being able to squat and get back up easily! Getting up off the floor w/out breaking my neck. Crossing my legs and tucking my foot all the way around my calf. Walking. Running. Bringing my knees to my chin... these things are my favorite part.
Things are different for sure and I really do want to get on here more and blog it out! It makes me feel better and I really should do it more often! It has helped me so much... I can't even describe. I first came to OH and set up this page on New Years Day of last year. It had been a really bad New Years Eve, and it was early evening the next day. I remember sitting at my desk in my old apartment and feeling like 2007 just had to be better. I started reading people's stories and relating to strangers! No one really knew what I was planning on doing except my mom and one friend. I didn't want people to know until it was for sure. I had scheduled an appt w/my PCP to get the referral and felt like it would be a million years before I got there. It wasn't a good time for me personally. I had decided to take a break from anything romantic while I worked on figuring myself out...It was a good time in the sense that I had decided to take control of my life, but a bad time in the sense that I really was at the end of my rope.
Fast forward one year... 2007 was the best year yet. It lived up to all my hopes.. and 2008 is gonna have a hard time following that act! Side note: This year I didn't spend New Years Day in a dark apartment by myself. I spent it with my boyfriend, at a New Years Day "Champagne Bowl" party, meeting his family. So I guess 2008 is gonna give 2007 a run for it's money after all. 
xoxo,
Kelly
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Things that are good.... on September 10, 2007 11:08 am
My new official, visit with the surgeon, weight loss as of Friday is... 82 pounds!! This is awesome and makes me super excited. It's also got me appreciating the little things....
I went to a concert with my friend Brittany on Thursday night... it was so good! I had floor tickets for the first time in YEARS... cuz in the past I would be way to tired from standing the whole show. My legs, feet and back would be hurting too much. So I got standing floor tix for the Rilo Kiley show and I had a blast. We were there early and saw both opening bands (Grand Old Party and Jonathan Rice... both awesome) and we were dancing all the way through Rilo Kiley's encore! It was so awesome. I was also able to buy band shirts there and I can actually wear them... It was a great night and I'm sooo glad I went... (p.s. David, I wish u had been there!!)
I went camping this weekend! It was comedy! There were 12 of us, w/three camp sites not too far from Santa Barbara, California.... there were a lot of bummers (can't swim in the lake, pool full of children-probably peeing, Red Rock-alternate swimming location near by closed, enthusiastic christian campers next door who get to worshipping at the top of their lungs at 6:30 AM) but mostly we could laugh at the craziness, the company was awesome and we ended up driving to the beach! We squeezed 10 people in 2 cars. I sat in the back of one w/two other people... again something I never could do before! It was tight as it was!
I'm leaving on Friday for a long weekend in WA state w/family! I'm so very excited to take the plane... I haven't been in a plane seat in a while and I can't wait to see how it feels now! Hopefully I'll be able to cross off the whole fit comfy in an airplane seat off my "to do" list!
Oh!!!! And a big shout out to my girl Penny for hitting her 100 pound mark!! She's so awesome and has worked so hard to get here!! Cheers to you Penny! I've got some sexy jeans for you!! LOL
Fun pictures coming soon!!
xoxo
Kelly
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Good day.... on August 6, 2007 4:08 pm
Today is Monday (weigh day!) and I have officially lost 70 POUNDS since my first meeting with my surgeon (50 since surgery)! Also, I went to Old Navy on Friday and broke down and bought ONE pair of jeans. They were a size 18! Now I'm sure that most girls would not be super excited to fit into an 18, but I couldn't be happier about it!
In unrelated news, I found out yesterday that I got the 2nd job I had applied for! It's at the arena here in San Jose (where the Sharks Hockey team plays) and I think it'll be really interesting. If nothing else, I'll lose even more weight from climbing up and down those stairs all the time!! LOL
So that's it, not super exciting, but exciting enuf for me. Things in general are good. | Leave a comment.
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My Story When I was a little girl I was so skinny that kids would make fun of me. The older kids at my mothers in home day care center would carry me around in a basket. I ate. Boy did I eat. I shocked and amazed my friends and family with my ability to eat off any adult menu in the land. Double cheeseburgers, french fries... Happy Meal toys were never enough to entice me into a child size portion!
But all things must come to an end. By Junior High the party was over, my horrible eating habits caught up with me, and I became the "Big Girl" in my head. Which is all it took for me to decide that I was going to be a Big Girl for the rest of my life. Since that time, I've tried everything. Weight Watchers, Slim Fast, Fen Fen (Can u believe Doctor's gave that out?!?), that Richard Simmons one with the cards, Atkins, South Beach, etc. etc. Needless to say, every time I lost, then gained plus more.
Things need to change, and quick. I'm going to be 30 this year, and I feel like my whole life I've been waiting for the strength to get healthy. I thought that eventually something would just click, and I would be able to fix things. No such luck. I've thought about this for a long time, and I've decided that this is what I have to do, in order to have any kind of a life. I've read other people's profiles, and their lists of things they want to do. It's like reading my own journal! I know there's so much life I'm not living. I want to get to it already!
This isn't my first experience with WLS though. My mother had WLS about five years ago. I was not as supportive as I could have been at first. I was so scared. My mom is my best friend, I was 25 and I thought I would die right there with her if something went wrong. But she was over 400 lbs and it was her only hope. I went to all her appts with her. I learned about the surgery, the nutritionist, the supplements, everything. And when she suffered complications and ended up in ICU, I was the only one there with her. In the end she made a full recovery, and I know that it was the best thing for her. I'm so proud of her for all that she's acomplished. In addition to my mom: My Dad, his wife, my ex-Stepmom. They have all had WLS.
I've met such wonderful people on this site already, and I can't wait to meet more of you! Drop me a line, I'd love to know your story!
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Anyway, I'm down to 249 lbs! This is exciting to me because I've reached my first goal. I wanted to weigh what my Driver's License says I weigh. Now, I actually weigh one pound less! 
