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stop eating sweets before my surgery

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start walking everyday

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  • Comment by jktcbuck on 12/12/07 1:26 am
    Shasta, I hope your surgery is uneventful and that you have a smooth and speedy recovery. Here's to the day you have been waiting for. Take your tool and use it wisely. You will be reeping the benefits in no time. Good Luck and Best Wishes! Merry Christmas and definately HAPPY NEW YEAR! Katy
  • Comment by Eggface on 12/11/07 10:15 pm
    Congratulations your big day is almost here!!! Sending prayers for a successful surgery & speedy recovery. Soon you'll be posting all your WOW moments. I can't wait to hear about them ~Michelle
  • Comment by Kristie T. on 12/11/07 9:41 pm
    Sending you Warm Well Wishes & Praying for a speedy recovery.
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Random thoughts after weight loss surgery
posted on 9/1/08 9:02 am
Hello all, Wow! I can't believe that I am eight months out from surgery. I t seems like only yesterday that I was desperate for a date, thinking it would never happen. LOL that amount of waiting seems so trivial to me now. Now I'm looking towards the rest of my life,and mainitining a healthy weight for life.  I havn't blogged in awhile. Many of you may know that I have sporadic access to the internet so If I am not keeping in touch wiht you its not because I dislike you are anyhting it's just that I don't get on here that often, and well, as many of us figure out after WLS alot of life starts happening, and we get busy. I'm alos going to make a confession: I hate to write, so this blog really isn't going to be that formal. I am mostly just going to jot down some random thoughts I've had since weight loss surgery. hopefully that will get you all up to date on me.



I really never knew how much my weight was effecting me. I didn't have diabeters, or really any of the otrher co-morbidites that come from morbid obesity. I knew I lacked energy, and that physically I had a hard time keeping up with people, and I always thought that weight loss might help a little, but over all I think I was in denial. I really overall thought I was really healthy despite my weight. The doctors all told me I was healthy except for my weight. I really didn't know what this meant. Now that I've lost 133 pounds I do....

Before surgery if I ...
had to be on my feet, or do any walking for even a small length of time I would becoem overwellmingly physically exhasuted and my feet would ache.
i had plantar facilititus from so much weight on my feet.
I could barely get through a four hour shift at my job, where I have to be on my feet the whole time.
Short walks would get me out of breath, and stairs practically killed my
I would wake up in the morning and feel like I hadn't had any sleep. i would have to take naps every afternoon. I
often thought I was lazy because I could barely make it through my classses(im a college student)and then had to nap.
I was way to tired to  do homework, and often barely made it through.
I didn't have the energy to play with my nieces and nephew. Once when my nephew was about two He ran off form my. He thought it was funny, and we were playing a game, but it we were actually in the middle of a busy parking lot, and I was too fat to catch up to a two year old. I thought he was going to get hit by a car. It made me think that I should never have children.

After 133 pound weight loss I...
I can breeze through a 12 hour shift at work. my feet don't even hurt!
I can walk four plus miles at a time, and switched to a job at work where I have to do alot of walking. I log approx. 5,000 steps for every four hours of  shift at my hospital. No problem
I've even started jogging a little, and am training for a 5k.
I take stairs two at a time.
I wake up in the morning felling refreshed and ready to start the day. Ieven get up early enough to make my morning classes on time (lol no more excuses for missing class).
Instead of taking naps I feel so great I can actually use that time to study!
A couple of months ago I was babysitting my three nieces and my newphew ranging in ages from 1 year to eight, and I kept upwith them the entire time.  we played tag, I pushed them on the swing set, I even climbed up the monkey bars to retrieve my frightened three year old niece! I no longer feel like my obesity would keep me from having children should I decide I ever want them.

Anyways before I had weight loss surgery I had a million reasons why I wanted to lose weight. I have realized some of them had nothing to do with my weight, and some really didn't matter, but all the things listed above are what make this all worthwhile, and they are what motivate me to continued success.




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