Hey Everyone!

Well Yesterday I had my six month check up with Dr. Williams.  I am officialy down 101 lbs and loving every minute of it.  I feel so alive, accomplished, and beautiful.  Working hard and going to school to get my degree.  Doing all the things in life I want to do.

Be Blessed

So I started school yesterday it went well. I am just concerned as to how I'm going to be able to juggle everything and still work out.  I have not excersised any this week. When I get home after school and work I am dog tired.  Help me out OH friends what is a good work out video I can get to do in front of the tv?

Well everyone I am officialy a college student.  I start school monday July 9th here in Savannah, GA.  I am just taking some of my gen. ed. classes right now untill we know where we will be moving to.  Then I will transfer to a 4 year college.  I am wanting to go to school for Healthcare management or administration.  I am so proud of myself and determined to reach my goals.  

Still at a stall with the weight loss I think it is because I worry to much about it.  I am just going to let it do what it do while I do what im suppose to do. Hope everyone on here is doing great, making great strides, and reaching all your goals.

Be Blessed

I got home about an hour ago from my first real walk.  I have been walking a mile and a half on the treadmill and doing water aerobics and some resistance training since the surgery.  Lately I have been experiencing a plataue and decided maybe it is time to kick it up a notch.  I walked not on the treadmill but outside four miles, can we all say four miles.  That aint no joke do you understand the words that are coming out of my mouth.  I hurt so bad but as soon as I got home I stretched really good.  I am praying that I will not wake up in the moring and be a cripple.  I also changed up my diet again.  I am eating straight meat with 2 small servings of veggies a day only. No snacks at all other than a piece of fresh fruit.  I am also increasing my water intake.  I am going to try this out for a month and see what happens.  I am going to eat a scrambled egg or small piece of meat for breakfast.  A large piece of meat and veggie for lunch and 1 or 2 large pieces of meat for dinner and veggies.  I am also changing up the times I eat as well. I am going to walk on my off days twice a week and the rest will be water aerobics. Then I will increase it to three times a week and so forth.

My hair is still a mess and walking outside in the heat with a wig on aint cool.  I am going to have to figure something else out with the hairdo.

Well I think I have hit another plataue.  I have not lost a lb since coming home from Kansas.  I am just going to keep doing what i need to do and leave the rest up to the Lord.

Well I am back home in Georgia after a wonderful trip home to Kansas.  I had an amazing time with my family and friends.  This will be a trip that I will remember for a long time to come.  I enjoyed everyones positive comments and most of all the look on my mothers face when she saw me.  What was so funny I could fit some of her church suites that really put the icing on.  Most of all about this trip i will treasure is my husband.  You know we as humans can be so selfish and self centered and I am guilty of that. I don't thank my husband enough or let him know enough how blessed I am to have him in my life.  He showed me such love and respect  for my family.  He was so generous and giving and it came straight from his heart. For that and so much more I am so very thankful.

Well on to weight loss, I gained about 4 lbs while I was at home which is a shame but aint nothing like home cooking.  We went to water aerobics tonight and is back on the grind.  I am really feeling like the water aerobics is not giving me a hard enough work out anymore.  I am scared of what walking will do to my knees.  Maybee i need to mix it up walk twice a week and water aerobics the rest.  I am still planning to get down to about a size 18 dress 20 pant by the end of august for my cruise.

Well that is all for now
Bye

Well I am leaving to go home to Kansas for a week friday.  I am so excited it has been a couple of years since I have been home.  My sister and neice is coming also so the whole family will be together.  I am excited to see my moms reaction when she see my weight loss. The last time she visited she express great concern for my health being so over weight.  I think she will be overjoyed.  Well my hair has fallen out it is awful.  It is so thin that I have put  a weave in my hair and I hate weave.  The doctors office told me that It will grow back just to make sure that I am getting enough protein and taking biotin.  I aint gonna worry to much about it as long as there are wigs I will be fine.  Today is a good day Will and I went to dinner at chillis it seems that lately we are really drinking alot.  With all the things I have heard about people becoming alcholoics after this surgery I am parionoid about this.  I probably overreacting but I don't need any new addictions.  But they have such good margaritas and they don't make me dump. That is saying some thing because the least amount of sugar makes me sick and dump.  Well this weekend was probably one of the best I have had in a long time.  My play mom Charlene got married and her family were in town. We all had a blast together.  My good friend Michelle who also had the surgery looked drop dead gorgeous!  I am so so proud of her she was just glowing.  I just thank God so much for this happiness that I have in my heart right now.  Well that is all for now talk to you all soon.

Hey my peeps,
Well just a quick update on me and what is new in life.  I have been asked to start birth control by my doctor.  Before WLS I did not ovulate therefore was never a need.   Now that I have lost weight my cycles are starting to happen and I am ovulating.  This might sound stupied to alot of people but I am so glad.  You don't know how abnormal you feel to be different then other women.  It is so reassuring to now that it is possible for me to get pregnant.  Of course we are taking every measure to ensure I don't until my 18 months are up for baby sake.  I have so desired to be a mother and never thought it would be possible.  Now it is a very good possibility that is so special to me.  So to all of you ladies who have Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome out there be encouraged.  There is hope after all, there is a silver lineing.

So I am really getting some big reactions lately.  People I have not seen in a while are like what is really going on.  I sent my cousin a pic tonight and she bout fell out the chair LOL!   Then there are the other reactions you may not be prepared for.  Like a old coworker of mine who said you look sooo much better now.  I know you have to be more happy with your self.  Now What she said is true but it made me realize how unattractive she felt I was.  It made me think how many and what other people who looked at me everyday felt the same as her.  OH THE HELL WELL!!  I am loving life and feeling great now and that is what matters to me.

I am now below my target weight I weigh 296 as of today!  I am just feeling awsome and just so very blessed.  My honey hurt his wrist and had to take off from work today.  We have been just enjoying each others company all day it has been so nice.  We are getting a dog here soon his name is Buddy he is an english bulldog.  Believe you me Buddy is going to be spoiled rotten.  I am just so blessed to have people in my life true friends that are so loving and supportive.  One of my good friends Michelle and her husband Dave is the ones who hooked us up with the dog.  Michelle also has had WLS and she is doing amazing and looking beautiful.  Our spirtual mom is getting married on May 24th and I am so excited I don't know what to do. Then ontop of that I am going home the end of the month to see my family in Kansas.  So yes I am feeling realy blessed.  By the way we saw that crazy doctor this weekend at the movies and my husband looked at him like he wanted to whoop his ***.  We did'nt we took the high road and left it alone for God to handle.

Well I am almost there one pound away from my goal.  I am so happy nothing could upset me.  I have  not been under three hundred punds in 9 years.  I feel so beautiful I am crying right now and so many emotions is taking over me.  I looked in the mirror today and could see the woman that I knew was inside me all along.  I am so blessed to of had this surgery and to be able to have a support system out of this world.  I went through my closet today and tried on every piece of clothing I owned.  I have over 7 trash bags of clothes to give away to my best girlfriend.  I have now about 8 shirts and 6 pair of pants.  I don't know what to do about buying clothes because they aint gonna last long.  Well I just wanted to share my happiness with you all. Be Blessed

Well I have got a story for you today, like to hear it well here it go.  Last Thursday I went to the OBGYN and while I was there they pricked my finger for my blood sugar levels.  They were slightly elevated and my doctor was concerend.  She advise me to make an appointment to have a hemoglobin A1c done.  So yesterday I went to the doctor here in Savannah.  When the doctor came in he asked what I was there for and I told him.  I told him about me having Gastric Bypass surgery and that I needed meds for a sinus infection and meds for my arthritis, but the main thing was my blood sugar.  This idiot then asked me what did i try to do to lose weight before the surgery.  I told him about all of them then this ass tells me that they would have worked if I had more "WILLPOWER".  I had to hold sister girl back because she wanted to come out on him.  Of course I told him off in a nice way.  He could tell that I was ticked so he change the subject.  I then told him that he had to be careful in what he prescribed for my arthritis because a lot of antiinflamtory meds. I can't take.  Well he leaves out and comes back with samples of meds. and perscriptions. I toss the samples ain my purse like I always do and think nothing else about it.  Then he hads me the perscriptions and the first one he says is a wheight loss medicine.  WHAT THE ----!  I was like you have got to be kidding me why the hell would you give me that.  He says that it will help me lose the weight faster.  After that something told me to look in your purse and see what he gave you.  He gave me damn celebrex, freaking celebrex.  Now that is the number one thing my doctor told me to stay away from.  I am so pissed about this I don't know what to do.  I am seriously contemplating calling the medical review board.  Tell me OH family am I overreactiong or would this tick you off too?

Hey Obesity help friends!
I am so happy I went to the doctors yesterday for my annual check up.  Also because my WLS doctor advised me to get on some sort of birth control.  While I was there they weighed me and I weigh 303.  Do you know what that means to me that means I am 4 lbs from being out of the 300's. That is sooso big and exciting.  I am a little concerend because my blood surgar was 120 fasting yesterday.  I have another appointment on monday to check that out. It is so amazing watching your body change shape, I find myself looking in the mirror all the time.  This is the most amazing experience i could have ever imagined.  Well I have one month before I go home to see my mom so I want to put in a real effort to get some more weight off.  I would like to be 290 by the end of may when I go home.  Then next big goal is to get as much off by the time we go on our cruise the end of August.  Maybe I can get down to 250 by then that is four months away.  I wish you all the best and hope and pray that each of your are blessed and happy.  You all are beautiful!

Hello OH family,
Well all is well with me on the home front loving my new job and making good ends.  I have seen some great drops in my weight since my last blog.  I hardley have anything to wear anymore.  I don't want to buy clothes because I am still loosing so I am making what I got work.  Well I am starting to get attention from the opposite sex more (SCARY CRAZY) I don't know how to take it.  My husband loves it he says it is fun seeing men wanting me but knowing they can't have me because my heart belongs to him.  We have grown so much stronger in our marriage after having this surgery.  We have grown closer together and have become each others hype man.  Well our cruise is not to far away the end of August so we are still working out trying to get down as much as possible.  We are going to have a ball!!  Well that is all till next time stay cool.

My husband and I was talking and We figured out that I am not 31/2 months yet.  I am Two 1/2 months I will be three on 4/17/08!  So really I am right on time with my weight loss (IDIOT).  This surgery will make you a little crazy on obsessed if you let it.  Anyway on to new things I started a new job on April 1st.  So far I love it but it is some hard work.  I am a hairstylist and the name of the place I work is Sport Clips.  We service men and boys with an eye for what men like.  Flat screen tv's at every station, hot towel facials, and threaputic scalp massages.  So our grand opening day was yesterday and the first day cutting in a good while for me.  I expected to be not tired or sore because of me excersising YEAH RIGHT!  I was dying, it is going to take a couple weeks for me to get back in the grove of things, but I thing I will do just fine.  Also we are having our good friends down this weekend here in savannah.  So we will get to party a little and have some fun down at the beach in Tybee Island.  Well I am blessed so far no gallblader problems,ulcer,or anything else everything is gravy baby!

Peace Out

I walked 1.36 miles yesterday and feeling great no knee pain.
Yeah!!

After all that complaining I did the other day I got on the scale this morning and was amazed.  I lost nearly five pounds in a day every last one of you are right.  I am trippin and need to take a chill pill please forgive me for wiggin out.  You are all right no more negative talk I will be patient and believe that God is working it out

I am really getting concerned I am three and a half months post op.  I weighed this morning and the scale said 323.  Don't get me wrong I am grateful for every pound lost but i just feel something aint right.  This means that in Three and a half months I have lost 47lbs.  I am doing everyting I am suppose to do Exercising, taking my vitamins, and eating right.  If I am trippin and overreacting please someone tell me.  If not please tell me what to do.

Hey my OH friends,

Well I had the time of my life this weekend, I will always remember it.  Well I am happy with my weight loss so far down 41 lbs in two months.  I have been feeling like the scales have not been moving fast enough.  Well I did some research and found out why.  My body is fighting against it self trying to hold on to as much body fat as possible.  My body think it is starving and is wanting to hold onto the stored fat to be used as energy.  This is sometimes called a plataue which is a term I had heard but did not really understand.  Also I am going to have to leave the weight training alone.  What is happening is that muscle weighs more than fat and I am bulking up muscle.  So the scale is not moving although the inches are falling off.  So it will be water aerobics and walking for me only for a good while.  This may be a wierd question but did any of you experience a lack of sex drive after WLS? and if so how long did it last?  Also please pray for my sisters husbands brother he shot his girlfriend and then turned and killed his self on my birthday.  Please keep them in your prayers.

March 17th will mark my two month date so I am a little early.  I weighed today and I am at 331lbs from 370 down 41lbs.  I am excited and happy but also concerned.  I felt as though I would have lost more than that by know.  I am still grateful and thankful to God.  I am keeping up with my exercises doing water aerobics 3 days a week and resistance training two days.  My Goal is to be down to a size 16/18 by September.

Well I know it has only been twelve hours since my last blog, but I have something to say.  One thing I was not prepared for with having this surgery is all the emotional issues it brings up and out.  All the years of rejection, the low self esteem, and the poor self image.  Just because you have the surgery and loose the weight  does'nt take the pain of the past away.  Thank God for Jesus he is the one that will go in and heal all those hurts and pains of obesity. He will make you emotionaly whole and healthy.  Nothing but brighter better healthier days lay ahead for all of us who share this burden.  I now see me from the inside out and boy am I beautiful, unique, and wonderfuly made.  Please please to all be encourage our best is yet to come.

Hey OH friends,

Well it has been a little more than six weeks and I am down 39 lbs!!  I have become obsessed with looking to see how much smaller I have got.  I have been struggling to get enough fluids in a day.  Well my 6 year wedding anniversary is march 13th.  I am excited about dressing up for that special occasion.  I am loving myself more and more each day all praise and thanks to God.