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  • Username: MzDiane
  • Location: Apopka, FL, USA
  • Member Since: 10/29/2008
  • BMI: 26.6
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (06/01/10)
  • Surgeon: Keith Kim, M.D.
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Goals

be light enough to be carried by my husband

30 People
 in progress, 
11 People
 achieved this

Cross my legs

438 People
 in progress, 
486 People
 achieved this

for my first mini-goal weight 230

0 People
 in progress, 
2 People
 achieved this

Be able look at myself in the mirror again and like what is looking back at me.

31 People
 in progress, 
14 People
 achieved this

Ride roller coasters comfortably

13 People
 in progress, 
4 People
 achieved this
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Surgeon Testimonial

Keith Kim, M.D.
My first impression of Dr. Kim was one of amazement. He wanted his staff to take all the prop's and compliments. He was just the one running the computer. His staff was dynomite and the program is top notch!

He stresses the after care and works to keep you motivated. You have all the resources that his office has, at your finger tips. He explained the risks of the surgery in great detail and it made me feel comfortable with the doctor I chose.

I would give him a rating of 8 so far only because I haven't seen him for the follow up appointment yet but I expect that to go as great as the pre-op and day of surgery did. He is really a great doctor and one that I would recommend to anyone.
Latest Surgery Support Comments

  • Comment by Pamela W. on 6/3/10 11:50 am
    Just checking in on ya to see how you're doing! Update us when you can but just think girlfrien' - you're on the losers bench now!
  • Comment by taclark73 on 6/1/10 10:59 pm
    Good luck! I know walking probably drove you crazy but you will be fine. By day 5, you will be motivated to do some shopping.
  • Comment by Orilliagurl50 on 6/1/10 3:52 pm
    Best of luck today, hip hip horay!
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First Appt With A Therapist Today
on March 25, 2010 5:46 am
     Today is my first appointment with a Psych therapist.  I am a bit nervous but finally ready to get the help that I have neglected to get in the past.  I talked to my Psych Evaluation Doc for my bariatric center yesterday and I asked when she thought I would get the clearance to move forward with my surgery process and she said that it depends on the one I meet with today.  She was faxing over the results of my initial consultation.

     I am a bit worried.  Knowing me probably not justly so but what if this pushes me past my 6 month requirements on all my pre-op clearances and all that good stuff I've had to go through to get to the point I am at?  I guess in all reality I'll just start it over again.  I am sure there has been other people out there that has had to start again from the beginning.  I guess after all my preaching to others about being patient that I am not able to heed my own advice today...LOL.

     I have come a long way since I had my initial evaluation.  I read the book Boundaries and Life's Healing Choices.  I have reconciled and let go of so much of my issues in "Life B4 Diane".  I am not the same person I was when I started but I know no matter how great self help books are, they don't replace the expertise of a professional. 

     I know I am being a whiny baby, but I just want to get this surgery done.  I see so many people that have lived their lives just as I have lived mine and now they are truly enjoying being healthy and they are finding out what "living life" means instead of sitting back watching "life live."  I want to get on that Loser's Bench. I know that I will get there.  I just have to accept that it just might not be in the time I think it should be in.  

     I hope this post finds everyone happy & blessed and living in "today".
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Curves..NEVER SIGN ANYTHING WITHOUT...
on March 22, 2010 12:39 pm
OK OK...so let me get my own ass kick'n out of the way.  YOU MUST ALWAYS READ EVERYTHING WHEN SIGNING A CONTRACT!!!!!  

Now with that out of the way let me say that I had answered a post somewhere on here this morning about how I thought Curves was with the resistance training. I said that's their method, I've been a member.  I still like the circuit even though they have pissed in my happy patty potato patch...lol!  So, later on I go and check my checking account because something is not adding up and I am missing some moo-laa (yeah yeah, I know...idiot for not keeping good bank books..whatever) found out that Curves has debited my account for the last 3 months even after my initial 12 month contract being up.

So I called, the lady had to call me back.  She did, I was informed that they had called me back in February and never got a call back.  I have no recollection of a call from them but, hey...I'll give it to them that they might have because I had even gotten an email from them wanting to renew my membership.  No big deal, I just want to make sure it is canceled.  She said I had to put in writing that I wanted my membership canceled because included in the contract was a clause that stated that they "MAY" debit my account for up to 24 months AFTER my 12 membership is UP!

So, I tote my fat tail up there to find that the original lady I had spoken to just left and the crotchety  hag with the political (health reform) issues and "fat people" syndrome state of mind was the only one there and couldn't pull my file (which was suppose to already be done) to let me know exactly when my 12 month membership ended. OK well let me write this letter then and let them know how upset I am that the owner would actually utilize this clause in the contract given the financial state of our country.  Guess that did it for her and it immediately had her "Politically Profiling" me.  Now, not to offend anyone here but I don't give a rats ass who is Republican, who is Democrat or who died and left Jim-Bob in charge.  So, as I start writing this letter she begins to tell me how she can afford to pay her health insurance and insurance for the people that can't pay and how it is because of fat people that our health insurance is in the state it's in.  

Uh...WTF does that have to do with my money and writing this letter?!?  I went off a bit and was like...Oh hell no you didn't!! (Yeah she did, she was profiling me)  Called the Police and said that I wouldn't leave after being asked to. I was like WHAT!!!!  No you didn't ask me to leave, hell I am still writing this letter you all needed!  Anyways...moral to this story is not about the money but about READ what you need to before signing anything. 

However, I did lodge a complain with the BBB.  They already had an "F" rating. 

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The Weekend Plans
on March 20, 2010 2:14 am
Hey gang!  I just wanted to drop a post and wish everyone a very happy & blessed weekend!  I'm going to go set up at the flea market this weekend.  I haven't done it in the longest time and well, xtra money is a bonus...haha!  Have a good one!
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Facing My Saboteur...Myself
on March 17, 2010 6:55 am
Amazing how a simple thought can change the outcome of a person's sense of direction.  How many times have I started something and just not finished it.  There is always a reason that made perfect sense to me at the time.  Fact is, I have sabotaged my goals and my dreams.  I am the negative Nancy in my personal life. 

I can count on one hand the things I have sat out to do and actually finished it.  The sad thing about that is, I have been a failure with the majority of tasks I have set my feet upon.  I have wanted to complete more things than I can count on one hand.  Not that the things I have accomplished is not good, it is and it meant the world to me to reach the goals I had set for those particular things.  I was proud of myself.  Only, I couldn't keep on the constant with the other things I wanted.  I failed myself and big time.  I am tired of blaming outside influences & inside fear to keep me on this self failure course I have always been on.

I refuse to allow the things in my past to continue to haunt my todays & tomorrows.  They say knowledge is power so when I catch myself putting on the breaks to get to the goal I want to abtain, I am gonna look at my "Negative Nancy" and tell her she doesn't belong in my life anymore.  I am through being her best friend and confidant.  I'm trying to learn what it is to be my own best friend.  For we can always hide from others and ourselves, but I am tired of playing that game with myself and others.  Look, we can overcome what has become a way of life for us.  We can beat this addiction of eating to protect the person inside from the outside world. 

This world is huge and we are always going to run into people that may not like us.  So what!  Big deal.  What is there to truely fear?  Nothing.  If you are doing the things that brings you happiness then it really doesn't matter what other's think.  You have to lye down in bed at night with yourself.  The only person you face in the mirror is yourself.  

Anyway, it seems as if my time management is still lacking and I have to close this for now.  I hope this finds each of you blessed! 

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The "Obese" Mindset
on March 16, 2010 5:29 am
I saw a post on the main board about (and I am not quoting it because I have "Old-Timers"..lol) when do you stop seeing the fat chick/fat dude in the mirror or when you truly realize that your mind hasn't caught up with the effects of the weight loss surgery?  It was a very good question and I saw by the replies that sometimes it takes up to years, if ever, that you start to feel the way you look.  What do you think about it?
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