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  • Comment by erickab on 3/24/09 8:25 am
    Maggie, thank you so for the support you sent my way for my surgery. I came thru with flying colors and am now 5 days out and feeling much better than I expected. I hope all is going well with yours, I see that you were up about a week before me. Thanks again! ~Ericka
  • Comment by Stacy S. on 3/11/09 12:09 pm
    Want to wish you the very best and I am sending warm thoughts and lots of prayers to you for an uneventful surgery and a very speedy recovery.
  • Comment by sanjali23 on 3/10/09 7:00 pm
    Good luck tomorrow and I'll be rooting for you. I know you'll do great
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Doing the happy dance.....
on September 29, 2009 5:51 am
Yup, once again I am dancing, dancing, dancing  why my OH friends may be asking, well since you are on the edge of your seats now I will tell you.  I went shopping yesterday because my jeans had gotten that certain bagginess to them that makes it look like I was walking around with a full diaper..NOT the most attractive look for myself, I must say.  And it was about time for me to play what size pants fit me now?  SO I went and I tried on some size 16 jeans , yes you read that right..size 16!  I was kind of nervous when I took them off the rack and headed back into the dressing room...after all it has been since high school since I have worn a size 16.  I was SO excited I couldn't think straight..a 16 could it really fit?  I slid in one leg, hmmm that went well..then the other but would they go over my hips...YES ok now the $30,000.00 question would I be able to button them..and more importantly sit down/bend over and BREATHE in them.......drum roll please....YES!  I am "officially" a size 16!!!  WOOOO HOOO.  I am down 6 pants sizes since I started my journey..HOLY CRAP I am about half the size I used to be!  All I can say to that is RNY ROCKS!  
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ONEderland !!!!!!
on September 15, 2009 7:18 am
OK what else can I say???  I am SO excited I feel like I am going to pass out. Later this week I will post total inches lost to this point but I am too wound up to do it now..wooo hoooo!!
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rants and ramblings.........
on September 1, 2009 8:50 am
People who have never been fat, really just have no idea how life changing RNY surgery is.  Even though I researched it for years..I being a reformed fat chick, had no idea what was in store for me.  I mean I KNEW I was going to loose weight, that was a given..but I had no idea how much or how fast this would take place or how it would affect my life.  So far at 5.5 months out I am down 93.8 lbs.  HOLY CRAP that is almost a whole person.  In fact my youngest daughter only weighs 104 lbs.  And in my head I am doing cartwheels and high 5ing myself..but then I think what in the hell did you do to yourself that made you NEED to lose that much weight.  Pretty  much like everyone else I would gain 5 here 10 there and just never took any of it off for a substantial amount of time..and even if I managed too the weight would ALWAYS come back and it would bring friends.  My life now is so different than it was such a short time ago. There is the obvious, I weigh SO much less, moving around for me is no longer a chore, I am happier, and healthier.  But then there are the things that someone who has never been heavy would never understand and you can't explain to them...like why you are smiling like a lunatic because you can cross your legs at the knees now instead of at your ankles, or how incredibly exciting it is to actually WANT to try on clothes.  Or how much fun it is when you realize you grabbed the wrong size to try on....and it is too BIG.  When you have that first realization that there are clothes in the store that are bigger than you are.  What it is like (this happened to me for the FIRST time in my life) to have to buy a new belt because on the smallest hole it is still too big for you!  And this is the newest tickle I got out of my new life...my shirts are now so small that when I fold them I can fit them in the drawer side by side two deep.  As silly as this sounds to someone who hasn't walked a mile in my shoes..it brought me to tears.  I have been pretty emotional about my weight loss in the last few weeks, but in a good way.  It started when I hit the 89 lbs lost mark, that it REALLY began to sink in..this is REALLY happening for me.  I couldn't believe it.  I never in a million years thought I would ever be this weight again in my lifetime, and I am not even through yet!  I honestly thought that I would live the rest of my life a prisoner in my own body, and that I would die that way too......I can't tell you how happy I am to be wrong about that!  
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