Steven M. Clark, MD I met Mr. Clark today and he seems like a great guy and a very competent surgeon to!! He has a great sense of humor and talked with us as a group and then met with each one of us individually. He took his time and gave me every opportunity to ask as many questions as I wanted to. All of the office staff was great as well.
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Friday 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
WOW!!
I cant believe how long its been since Ive written here, time just seems to fly by.
Well the weight loss has slowed almost to a complete stop, that sucks but I have joined the local gym with my daughter so im hoping that will do something. Im now walking 2 miles a day as well. Im trying to help slim my daughter down without being to obvious about it. I dont want to give her a complex or make her feel bad about herself my mom rode me like a dog about my weight when i was her age so i dont want to do that with her, it is very hard though because she honestly does not think she has a weight problem. She is around 5 foot 4 and weighs 196 pds she is a big girl she is only 13. Im hoping the gym will help her to as well as i am controlling her portions which is extremely difficult cause she will not work with me at all.
We had to drag out one of my husbands big black army boxes and start locking his bucket snacks and chips up cause she kept sneaking them, I know that sds extreme but I wasnt sure what else to do.
Im still hanging in there with the job I have been there 7 months now, I feel slightly better about it but it still stresses me out like crazy.
Im still also trying to wrap my head around the fact that my husband is going back to Iraq this September he wont even be home a whole year.
Im going to go back to school ive decided this spring, I eventually want my masters every one asks me why cause i have no desire to be a nurse practitioner which is what my husband wants me to do i just want that masters to show that i could do it, and maybe someday when im to old to walk the halls anymore i may teach i dont know i just know I want it.
My 9 month check up which was late, actually ended up being a 10 month check up went real well, the nut. said im doing great, and she said i was eating right about what i should be, i was worried that i was eating to much. she told me not to be a big calorie counter just try to keep it around 900 for now to loose that last 36 pds.
I have been grazing a little which i know is terrible I have an obsession with cheese its, I love them!!! I eat the reduced fat but i know they are still not good for you. I also eat rice ckaes the caramel corn is really good.
I finally took the plunge and got me a new vehicle to a jeep liberty, black. I like it.
Well thats it for now will try to not lets so much time go by before i write again.
Well its only a few days away now, I do have all my shopping done, early to this year and i am proud of myself cause i didnt over do it on my kid this year. She may not be thrilled about it but i cut way back on her, i got her about 3 high priced items this year and a few smaller things. I was able to get her a wii which i cant wait to play myself. I have to work christmas night which sucks but i have no choice. Iam down to 175 now which is good but it is still moving a lot slower. I get so disgusted when i try and upload pics to this site i got one up there but had more and they never show up. Ive been having trouble with my back lately, being in ICU i have a lot of comatose or near that patients, and they are alot of work and usually alot of dead weight. Ive been sleeping with a heat pad on my back every night. We got a good snow here the last couple of days, its pretty te first day then im over it, im not that big a cold weather person, my husband loves it even more since being in iraq. I am still 8 months out finding it hard to get my protein in, I have tried cutting down to 1 shake a day then getting the rest with food but i dont think im cutting it, it is so hard. Well guess thats all for now Merry christmas to all!!
Well I had 2 Thanksgiving dinners to go to, one the night before and one the day of, I will say I didnt do to bad I did eat a roll at each one and i felt very guilty for that but i did make sure I ate mostly turkey at both places. I got a pumpkin pie recipe off of here on the message board and I gotta say it was AWESOME!! I made it and took it and no one even knew it was almost completely fat free and sugar free it was really good.
My birthday was Friday and I have to say it sucked, my husnabd and I got into it over money go figure and he left and went deer hunting and my daughter went to a friends so I spent the bulk of it alone, im kinda down when i think about it i am already 36 years old thats almost 40 for crying out loud. I dont feel that old and I guess its not that old but to me it is!!
My scale has started oving again thank God cause I was getting worried I feel like I have wasted a whole month. No one really mentioned my weight loss at the family gathering but when i was at my biggest really none of them saw me that way cause I stayed at home or at school the entire time. Im just glad im lossing again. I ran into a friend who is about a year out and i had not seen her since before surgery but everyone was telling how awful she now looks, shes lost to much her hair has all fallen out but when I saw her I thought she looked great she was thin but not grossly thin and she told me she had just went and got the weave thing for her hair, you couldnt even tell
her hair looked great. She has went all about it all wrong she never drank protein shakes or tried to eat alot of protein nor has she ever taken vitamins and she has never went back to get her levels checked either so i know she probably isnt to healthy and I told her she needed to get some labs drawn so she could see where she was but im sure she wont anyway she did look good, i think she said she was the same weight as she was in highschool.
I dont so much care if i get that little my doctors goal weight is 132 but i think i would be happy around 140-145. Lets face it anything is better that 291!!
I was watching Brookhaven this evening and that 700 pound guy was on there and i told my husband that could have easily been me he said no way I would not have let you get that big and I thought what in the heck do you think you could have done to stop me but i just let it go he does not understand obesity or weight problems at all.
I still love him though and Im still glad he is home!!!
Well guess Ill cut out for now
Happy Holidays
Reagan
I have only lost 2 pounds in the last month, that sux!! I had my high school reunion last night had lots of fun alot of people told me i havent changed much since highschool ( and i was thinking to myself you should have seen me about 7 months ago!!)
I did drink and i did get drunk woke up today with a hell of a hangover.
I had a big duhh moment to this morning i have been terrified to drink diet coke for fear my stomach would explode and i would!! and it hit me this morning that if i could drink beer last night i could drink the diet coke, BUT I was a big diet coke addict it was all i ever drank all day everyday so im going to try and not drink it as long as i can if you play with the bull you get the horns you know what i mean?
So i got to just put this out there since my husband has been home I have been a sex addict i mean i can not get enough and i dont know if it is the weight loss or because he was gone a year and a half but we are having the best sex we have ever had in our 14 years of marriage it is truly HOTTTTT.
ok im done with.
i have desperatly been searching around for one of those stupid nintendo wii games for my daughters christmas cant find one anywhere but i will continue the that mission. well i guess thats all i got for now.
2/2/07 Well I will start off by saying that I have been fat pretty much, forever. Feels like it anyway. I actually wasnt in school but afterwards it just slowly came on. Then one day I realized I'm HUGE!! Back in November I went to a seminar on lap band surgery and I filled out the paper work to see if it was covered under my insurance. The next Morning the doctors office called me and said yes my insurance covered it and they set me up with an appt. Well I went through all the nutrition counciling, psych appts, lab draws and diagnostics, I literally ran around getting letters together and dates and proof for 3 months and when I was all done and everything was to be submitted the doctors office calls me up and says they made a mistake and my insurance doesnt pay for lapband! Well I was devastated, I had my hopes up so high that this was it the answer to my prayers and it was all just a mistake. So come to find out my insurance will cover gastric bypass, so I am back now at square one. Luckily there were a couple of girls i know who have had gastric bypass done and they gave me there doctors name. I was able to give this Doc (or I should say his office staff) all my records from the first Doc, She then turned it all in to insurance on Jan. 30th. Now I just waite, I of course have been calling the insurance company daily, today they said they needed one more piece of info which im taking that as a good sign if there not going to approve it why would they even ask for something else. Anyway the Doctors office faxed it over there right before closing time so now i have to wait all weekend till i know if im approved or not and THAT SUCKS FOR ME!! cause im so impatient (something i need to work on) I am an LPN and Im currently in school full time to get my Rn, which means i need to have this procedure done over spring break because i cant miss any school. I know its possible to have it done say on a Friday and be back to school or work by next Friday cause several people around here have done it as long as there are know complications, so that is what Im shootin for! My husband is in the military and he is currently over in Iraq and he has no idea of what I am up to and i am hoping to keep it that way because im hoping to have the surgery and completely freak him out the first time he sees me when he comes home!! Im scared I wont be approved cause I have read plenty of heartbreaking stories on other sites about denial of coverage and so I am crossing my fingers and toes and im praying like crazy!! I am almost to the point of being desperate, my appearance disgusts me, I can barely move let alone walk, just a short trip to the mail box and Im so out of breath its pathetic. This is the biggest iI have ever been in my life and Im just sick over it. My husband left home for training in July and I have probably gained 40 pounds just since then. I have been married for 14 years and we have a 12 year old daughter. My husband says he loves me just the way I am but I know down deep he has to at least every once in awhile wish i was thinner, he is very handsome, and built like a mac truck. He works out and runs and I just dont want to loose him some day because he finally saw enough. Plus im going to be dead by 45 if I keep up this eating, Im 35 now but hobble around like im 80. I have a bad back and last year I was diagnosed with arthritis in it and boy with these last 40 pounds Ive put on I can really tell it. Well I guess thats all for now, maybe I will be back on here Monday with some good news!!
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