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To Love Myself Inside & Out

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Get my weight down to 120.Become more confident in myself.

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Matthew A. Fitzer
He is rated one of the best in all of the surrounding area. I haven't actually saw him in quite some time. Sarah, his NP is the best so is his nurse Michelle. I love them both.
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Lynn I.'s Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I battled with obesity my whole life. I had no control. No matter what I did, I might loose some weight but regain triple. It controlled my whole life. I did not want to be seen in public, go to school and when I had children, I was embarrassed to even be involved in what they were doing. I isolated myself from everything and everyone.
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  • Comment by judyanne on 2/23/08 12:13 pm
    Monday 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~
  • Comment by kimcrain on 2/22/08 8:17 pm
    Congrats to you!! Monday is your big day, got ya covered in prayer.. i know how being jittery can be!! best of luck to you....
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Hello,
My name is Lynn.  I had my RNY on 2/25/2008.  I would love to meet new friends and as many people who can give me whatever information they would like to share with me I am appreciative!  I'm still learning how to use the site.  I'm not very good at it yet.   I am also willing to help anyone else with their journey. 




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2 Years went so fast!
on February 28, 2010 10:12 am
Hello everyone.  I pray that you are all in good health and doing well.  I have not forgotten any of you.  Life just seemed to have slipped away!  On Feb. 25,  it was my 2 year mark!  Crazy how time flies!  I am doing ok.  One day at a time. 
God Bless!  Thinking of all of you!
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Hello Everyone!
on March 18, 2009 5:15 pm
I'm still here,  going for more bloodwork again!   Can't quit smoking.. still.....help!  I know ,  I have to do it myself. Gained 4 lbs. lost 4 lbs.  I still can't seem to navigate this site correctly!!!  But I have more good days then bad now.  My friend,  inspired by hope has some updated pics of us on her site. We met again in Feb. and had a great time. I tried to steal the pics for everyone to see but could not for the life of me seem to figure out how lol.  I can't wait to meet her again in April.  She is my Best Friend!!  So many good things came into my life from her and I would never have met her if I did not join this site.  I don't want to keep bogging everyone down with bad news from me so I pray that all of my friends are doing well!  I love sugar and tolerate it very well.  My favorite is Baklava.  Does anyone know what is in it?  All I know is it tastes wonderful!!!  I am going to TRY to count my protien intake just to see how much I am really getting a day.  Miss you all and hope to hear from you soon!
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1 year out!
on February 26, 2009 6:53 pm
Yesterday,  2/25/09 was my 12 month aniversary!  I made it.  I have looked back at everything I have been through in the past 12 months and what a long road with many bumps I have had. I am thankful to still be here,  I am thankful to have met some very special people that I call friends here.  Had I not had WLS,  I would have never met you!  How quickly time flies and it makes you realize how short life really is.  I know I will be better soon and then I will be able to enjoy the things I never have been able to.  I am looking forward to that.  For now,  I think about the small accomplishments like being able to tie my shoes,  getting in and out of my car,  not be embarassed to go to my Daughters school.  Being able to walk the long Football fields to her Cheerleading games without being full of sweat and have to sit down halfway to the field.  I can't wait for the day I can excersize and wake up feeling wonderful and full of energy.  Soon I pray.  Thank you to all of my friends that have been with me through these past 12 months.  You have been a blessing.  Here is where I am at now,  sorry I never actually measured myself.  I wished I would have done allot more tracking and pic. taking:

Pants size then 18-22,  Now 0-kids size 12
Bra size 40-d-Now 34 sometimes 36 b
Shirt size 2 or 3 x now Extra Small to small
Believe it or not Foot Size 8 to 7 or 7/12
Oh yeah weight lol 205 1/2 to 111 (as of 2 days ago)
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2009
on December 31, 2008 11:43 am
How quickly time goes by.  I have many hopes,  prayers and goals for the New Year.  May God bless all of you with Health,  Happiness and Joy for 2009!
Lynn
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I am still here!
on December 7, 2008 9:39 am
Wow,  it has really been a long time since I have checked in here!  I hope I didn't loose any of you!  Life just seems to go by so fast and now the Holidays are right around the corner.  I pray that everyone is doing well and you had a wonderful Thanksgiving.  If you get a chance please update me as to how you are doing. 
Me,  well I am weighing in at 111.  Size 0 pants or a kids size 14.  I had another endo and found that I have an ulcer.  Dr. really didn't give me any other info about it.  Just told my Fiancee that I had one and I have to gain weight and stop smoking so I am going to try to find some answers on here today.  I seem to recall an ulcer to be life threatning when it is near the pouch.  Dr. was talking about placing an N.G. tube in (feeding tube)  but he has'nt yet thank God.  I have good days and bad days.  Some,  really bad.  I am not really sure what my next steps are.  I guess I should have went back for a follow up last week but this is really getting old and frustrating.  I bought my Daughter another digital camera for Christmas so hopefully I will be able to put some pics on here if we can figure out how again lol. Needless to say,  soon I will be 1 year out and people say that things start to change after that.  I'm hoping that will happen for me. I tell you what,  I can't take the cold!!!  I am FREEZING all the time!  I know,  being cold is par for the course but I feel like sometimes I am freezing to death!   My family laughs at me and says I'm crazy. 
Well,  thats all for now.  I have to go and check all of your blogs to see what's been going on in your lives!  Be good to yourself!
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My Story,

Hmmm.  Such a long one.  Where should I start!?  When I was a small child up until I turned 9 years old,  I was so thin that my family used to sing a song to me.  It went,  Lynn,  Lynn is as thin as a pin.  It used to make me cry.  Until I turned about 10 years old and everything changed.  I still to this day am not sure.  I started gaining weight and gaining weight.  By the time I was in sixth grade,  I was very overweight and always made fun of.  I hated school.  I hated life at the age of 12.  Junior High was much worse.  I will never forget the boy,  his name was Carlos who taunted me every single day.  He even used to spit on me saying I had no right to even live because I was to fat.  He wasn't the only one but he was the worse.  My parents took me to Doctors and of course they just said I needed to loose weight and put me on diet after diet.  Sure,  I would lose weight but gain it back and then some.  My Father was full blooded Italian so eating was most of my life just as it was for most of my family who were all overweight also.
When I started High School,  I went through allot of changes.  I had been dating a boy since Jr. High and he decided to leave me in 10 th grade because I was so big.  That devistaded me. I became depressed.  I stayed that way up until even now. I started using drugs and drinking.  I lost weight and allot of it.  To make a very long story short,  I gained all the weight back when I stopped using the drugs and drinking.
Time went on many things happened in my life in between. Then I lost my Mother to Cancer,  became pregnant and gained 89 more pounds!  I starved myself,  took every over the counter diet drugs,  went on all of the soup diets there are,  saw a Nutritionalist and was put on the diebetic diet.  I lost some of the weight never all of it.  Seven years later,  I became pregnant again.  I gained 50 more pounds.  Lost it all by stress and starvation but gained it back again within 2 years.  I went on a Herbal diet and it took me 3 years but I lost 83 pounds.  I felt wonderful but then I went off of the Herbal diet and gained back 100 pounds!  
That was the story of my life.  The Doc put me on prescription diet pills,  I went on Atkins,  South Beach we all know the drill.  Finally last Feb. 2007,  I found out that I now had Hypertention,  High Cholestrol and I was so overweight I had gotten heel spurs.  I was ashamed of myself.  It was hard to do anything that a normal person can do.  I told my Doc PLEASE,  can you refer me to a weight loss surgery Doctor.  Just to see if I qualify and if it would be for me.  She was very hesitant but she did it.  
Through all of the testing, that began in June 2007,  I found other health issues such as sleep apnea.  I was approved for RNY G.B. in December of 2007 and had my surgery on 2/25/2008.  I know this is the hardest thing I will ever go through but with the help of The Lord,  Holy Spirit and all of you here,  I will have a new life.  A better life.  Something I haven't had in 29 years!