- Name: Heather N.
- Username: novakgirls
- Location: APO, Germany
- Member Since: 3/28/2007
- BMI: 45.3
- Surgery date scheduled
- Surgery Type: RNY (07/10/07)
- Surgeon: Rudolf Weiner, M.D.
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I'm a proud Army wife and mom to 3 beautiful girls. I have PCOS, which makes it extremely hard to lose weight on my own. I'm persuing RNY so that I can get my health and weight under control. Hoping to have surgery in July, and my husband leaves in August.
Missing Jim.... on September 26, 2007 12:44 pm
I'm really missing Jim tonight. Karah is sick, poor baby has croup. So she is clingy, and wanting me and I'm trying to do school work so grouchy. The girls got a package from Daddy so they want him. Karah is really too little to understand why she can't have Daddy. Heck sometimes I don't understand it myself...
I wish he was here to keep me warm, I have never been cold before that I can really think of, and now I'm cold all the time and him not being here to keep me warm just blows...
I was supposed to have a potluck here this weekend (Italian Food I was gonna make baked ricotta, till I saw Martita's Lasagna dish) but had to cancel it since Karah is sick.
I am so blessed, and I know that... Tonight I just need a little more grace, because I miss my soulmate.
Next weekend we will have been married for 12 years. I was trying to ignore the anniversary (since he's not here no real point) but he brought it up today in an email. I love him, I miss him and I pray constantly for his safe return.
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Onederland! on September 22, 2007 4:47 am
I weigh 199.5!!!!!!! 
I have not weighed less than 200lbs since 1996, shortly after Jim and I got married. Today, 2 1/2 months after surgery I have gone under 200lbs. I can't even begin to describe how great I feel most days. Yes, I have days where I don't feel well because I eat too fast, or eat something I shouldn't by mistake (for instance at a cookout I had a Bubba burger. I had eaten burgers at home with no problem and didn't consider the fat content). But overall I feel great. My energy is so much higher, my moods are stabilizing. It is just awesome to be able to play with the kids... I can go up and down the stairs all day doing housework and still play with the girls when they get home. My knees don't hurt very much anymore (only on days where I do a TON of stairs or bending them) the numbness in my hands and feet is getting better. No more heartburn....
Let me list the ways I love my RNY!!!!!!!!! I will post some before and after pics (although I am no where near after yet  ) later on... Tessa took some for me this am, but I am wearing baggy clothes. I am going to put on some clothes that actually fit later (my size 16 jeans that I thought I would never wear again, down from a very tight 22) and have my girlfriend take some better pics.
On a totally different note, keep Jim in your prayers... he has struggled with something for years, and finally came clean this weekend. He will be fine, he just needs a little extra prayer for a bit. He also needs to get out of the Army, because it is not helping the situation. But that is three years away...
Well... I have a pop quiz to do for Math so ttyl, just had to share my excitement...
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2 months out on September 12, 2007 1:01 am
Well... Monday was two months out for me... I have lost 50.5 lbs since the day of my surgery consult and 40.5 since surgery. I have not weighed this little since before I got pregnant with my oldest daughter. I was 220 when she was concieved, and I had lost weight to get to that point. As of Tuesday I weighed in at 205.5. I can't believe how close i am to being under 200.
So my weight loss is going great.. I am still getting sick about once a week. Always when I eat too fast because we are on the run. I have to work harder at taking the time to eat slow, no matter what is going on.
Otherwise... things are not great right now. I am struggling with being overwhelmed right now. Between the girls going to school (the little ones started German Kindergarten), me going to school, the house, the yard, the wives group for our unit, watching my friends kids while she goes to school, etc, etc, etc.... I just can't seem to get ahead of everything. I have my morning to myself now (started today) but everything else is so behind I don't even know where to start... So I'm online doing stuff that isn't what I need to do. I need to clean my house, I need to do schoolwork for my classes or I'm going to fall behind, I need to do laundry... but all I really want to do is go crawl under a rock somewhere and hide.
I guess one blessing is that my car isn't safe to drive at the moment so I can't go anywhere else to avoid doing what I need to. I need to go pop the hood on Jim's car and see if the oil cap from his engine will fit mine. If not then I need to call and order a new oil cap for the van. I just need a break... I wish that I could afford a plane ticket back to the states for a bit, just to get a break.... I just need to make it to the end of October, then I can go home for a week. It's for a wedding in Texas, but at least I will have a little bit of a break... hopefully.
Almost a month and a half out on August 23, 2007 10:22 am
and on Tuesday I weighed 214!!! That puts me down 41 pounds since my Surgery Consult June 25th. and 31 pounds since surgery.
Jim is gone so I'm a single parent for the next 15-18 months. The girls are adjusting... slowly but adjusting. I cut my hair off, because I was worried that as it starts to fall out it would be obvious. I have really thin hair anyway.
I have had 3 periods since surgery, which kind of sucks, but I know it is just the hormones. My moods are okay, considering all that is going on here.
I have noticed that my energy levels are up, which is awesome with 3 kids to look after. I even applied for a job as a substitute teacher. We shall see if I get it or not.
There really isn't a whole lot going on... I'm curious to see when I hit 200. I didn't really think I would make it below 200 till the end of October, but at this rate it may be sooner.
Tessa goes back to school next week, and that will give me three mornings a week that I can go to the gym. That will be nice.... I have a routine I can do at home, but I always seem to find something else that requires my attention. With her back in school, I will go straight to the gym from dropping her sisters off at Preschool.
My classes start back up Sep 3. Three classes this time, Business Management, Philosophy, and Algebra.... I keep reminding myself that eventually I will get my degree.....
Did my measurements and pics on July 4, 2007 12:09 pm
Did my preop measurements and pictures tonight. I needed to measure my head for a wedding thing (girlfriend is making circlets for us to wear in her wedding). Since the tape is out and I'm less than a week out I figured what the hell.
Neck 16 1/4
R Arm 15
Above the chest 44 1/2
Across the chest 52
under the chest 43
waist 48
hips 55 1/2
R Thigh 27 3/4
R Calf 16 1/2
I will post the pics tomorrow, my digital camera battery died. Picked up a few more things that I needed for right after the surgery today. Tomorrow I get to cook 2 weeks worth of dinners and freeze them. Friday I need to run some errands and get the laundry caught up. Saturday pack and clean and Sunday we head to Frankfurt. Time is just flying right on by...
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My story huh.....
Well I was skinny when I was little... Hormones kicked in around the age of 9 and suddenly I was all curves. I was never small even in high school because of those curves.... my nickname was hips (not one I choose trust me). Then at the end of 10th grade I experienced the lovely joy of date rape. Not going to go into that on here but I started eating trying to hide myself... Well all it took was a little tiny kick and suddenly I developed PCOS. That being said I didn't know that's what it was for a very long time. But that summer of binge eating started me on the slippery slope of yo-yo dieting. By graduation I weighed 160 (at 5 ft 4). I was supposed to join the Navy after high school.... but I weighed too much and ended up failing the tape test as well. They kept delaying when I was supposed to leave in hopes that I could get my weight down, and I kept praying they would just let me go because I knew I would lose it in basic training. No matter what I tried during that 7 months I couldn't lose the 5 inches I needed to lose to go. I ended up telling them to shove it because I got tired of whether or not I was leaving depending on who was holding the tape measure. (I could get measured by one person, and told yes I was going... an hour later a different person would measure and suddenly I would be over by an inch).
About a year after graduation I got engaged to my DH, and that fall when we got married I weighed in at 152 after months of dieting to get there. We moved to Missouri (from Virginia Beach) because that was where his family was. Than a few years later he joined the Army. I can't quite say when I went over 200 pounds... before or after he joined the army. Somehow I missed that transition. I was told by a Doctor in Missouri that I would never have kids (I don't ovulate). He never did any tests to find out why I didn't have periods just told me I was fat and couldn't have kids. He also repeatedly told me to lose weight (this is when I learned to hate Doctors!)
Little did we know that a miracle had occured when he left for basic training... I was pregnant. I miscarried that baby... and as painful as that was it gave me hope. I wasn't supposed to be able to have kids... When we were reunited in Germany after he finished his schooling we began to try in earnest to have kids. I was exercising and actually managing to lose weight too... I weighed 215 when I got pregnant with Tessa, my miracle. After giving birth I weighed 210. That is the lowest weight I can remember since I got married in 1995, and that was in 1999.
After having Tessa I was working in the clinic in Hanau (I used to be a Certified Nurse Assistant) and doing my own research. I discovered a condition called PCOS. I researched it and there was a specialist in Heidelberg at the military hospital... so I got the Doctor I worked for to refer me (she didn't think I had PCOS btw... thought I just needed to lose weight and it was a never ending supply of you would be so pretty if... why don't you just...). The specialist looked at all my lab work and my history and told me that I did have PCOS. That was a huge relief... to finally know why my body didn't seem to work like everyone elses.
When we returned to the states we had been trying in vain to get pregnant again. We always wanted a big family... and while we would have been happy if Tessa was our only child since she was a miracle, hope springs eternal. One of my worst Doctor moments was when the fertility specialist my Doctor sent me to refused to treat me because I weighed 235 lbs. She refused to believe that I exercised (at the time I was training for the Avon 3 day breast cancer walk and was walking over 4 miles a day in an effort to lose weight and train) and told me that PCOS was besides the point and if I would just lose weight (eat less, move more) that then they would treat me. But not until I was under 200 lbs. She also told me that Clomid doesn't work on fat people (direct quote).
I went back to my PCM furious, because I had told him that I didn't want to be refered out for just that reason. He said she was full of it... and perscribed Clomid for me on his own. Two months later I skipped that walk I had been training so hard for.... because I was pregnant.... with twins. Sadly, I lost one of the twins to vanishing twin syndrome but I have my lovely Samantha from that experience.
Right after Samantha turned 1 I decided that I wanted to try and have WLS. I was leaning towards the band and got a referal from Tricare to see the surgeon. I was supposed to see him in August.
We on vacation before my husband left for Iraq and came home pregnant. I was in complete shock... Karah is a huge blessing, but of course that ruled out having surgery. Right before Jim left we found out that my mother was terminally ill with cancer. She had been diagnosed with Renal cancer a few years prior and succesfully survived surgery and they said she didn't need chemo.
That was a horrible time period for me.... Jim was in Iraq (for those of you that remember the Chow Hall bombing right before Christmas in Mosul that year... his unit), my Mom was in Virginia dying while I was in washington state pregnant. I did get to see her at Christmas (the whole family went home for Christmas... all 20 something of us, except for Jim). She died on February 22, 2005 and my daughter was born on March 17.
After Jim came home from Iraq I started thinking about my life. I was turning 30, and my Mom died when she was only 61. I didn't want to die young, I wanted to stick around and see all my girls grow up. I turned to exercise and dieting in January of last year. I worked out constantly and was religous about good carbs bad carbs (essential for PCOS). I managed to get down to 215, from 240. But it didn't last.... nothing ever does.
We moved back to Germany in August and I felt pretty hopeless as far as weight went. I didn't think that Tricare covered WLS overseas, and was fed up with constantly trying to lose weight but my body always fighting back. In January I found out that they do allow surgery over here, just only at one center. I went to see my Doctor here.... originally he told me I didn't qualify, then I pointed out what my chart said about my weight.... I weigh 256, but everyone says I look like I might weigh around 210. A mixed blessing in this case. Once he realized what my weight actually was he had no problem submitting a referal, but I had to see the NUT and the Pscyh first. It took a month to see the NUT (they only come to Vilseck once a month), and a week to see the shrink. Then he put in my consult.... that was when I got my first shock, a doctor who normally sees patients within a few weeks couldn't see me for three months. I was upset... but you know, most people have to go through a years worth of junk before they can see the Surgeon.
I see him on the 25th of June and hope to have surgery around Mid July, which according to everyone I have talked to is sure can happen.
So I'm hoping to have my surgery over with before my husband leaves to go back downrange in August sometime... When he comes home in 15 months it will be to a whole new me (at least on the outside)
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