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  • Username: sanjali23
  • Location: Orlando, FL, USA
  • Member Since: 2/3/2009
  • BMI: 37.1
  • Learning about surgery
  • Surgery Type: Other
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live a healthy lifestyle

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lose weight without WLS

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Buy a swimsuit this summer and actually wear it

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  • Comment by Ed W. on 3/11/09 4:02 am
    Good Luck with your surgery today, you are in good hands! Welcome to the loser's bench!!
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Today was a good day
on March 31, 2009 1:20 pm

Today was a good day. I ate just like I was supposed to and I am feeling victorious. I have been doing great and am so nervous that the old feelings that got me in this position in the first place will come back. I saw my endocrinologist last week and needless to say he was so impressed. This is the most weight I have ever lost let alone doing it without surgery. I am actually making an effort to drink my water and I have been victorious about that today too. I am still feeling strong and motivated and I really feel that next year this time I will be closer to my goal if not completely at my goal.

The best part about this whole thing is that I feel empowered. I feel like I am finally able to take control of my life and live it on my terms. I am so proud, and people who I told I was having surgery see me now and tell me "the surgery is working". Ofcourse when I say I didn't do it they don't quite believe me, but who cares I am too happy to care. My life is mine now and I am the author of my future. I plan to write a very successful book.

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Made A New Decision
on March 19, 2009 3:46 pm
Okay, so 2 days before my surgery I cancelled it. I just wasn't ready. I have decided to try diet and exercise again and for the first time it seems to be working. Maybe it's a new will power or a new realization but whatever it is I like it. I may revisit the idea of surgery again some day but I don't think it will be soon. Until then I am logging my caloric intake on dailyplate.com and staying within the 2224 calories that it would take for me to lose 1 and 1/2 to 2 pounds a week. I lost 2 pounds this week thus far so I guess it works. I hope to one day add a before and after picture on this site.
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Oh No, My Surgery Might Be Cancelled
on March 6, 2009 11:50 pm
Earlier today, I got a call from the hospital after doing my pre op that my blood is not coagulating. This means my blood is not clotting so I could bleed to death. Now I have to redo the labs so that they can get the results ASAP in order to make the 3/11/09 surgery date. OK I am doing that in the morning hence the reason I can't sleep at 2:52am. Problem is that if it is not a lab error then I would have to see a hemotologist to see what's wrong. Wow, what a blow. Not only can I not have my lifesaving surgery but I would also be sick too...This sucks. I am trying to think positive and hope for the best but it is really hard to do that.

I swear this is the story of my life. Everytime I try to do something good for my health, I get a roadblock...
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Had Pre Op Today
on March 5, 2009 5:50 pm
Ok so today was my pre op and I did not do well at all. I was scared silly from the moment I started hearing all the things that I previously knew from the nurses. I mean, I know this stuff, God knows that I have researched enough but somehow when they said it I was just shaking. What makes it worst is that I am so prepared for the lifestyle change but I am a really big chicken when it comes to pain and drain tubes, expecially ones coming out of my nose. I felt even worst when everybody was sitting there unfazed and excited while I was shitting on myself. It's not the after I am afraid of it's the complications. I know that the risks are mnimal but that doesn't erase them. I keep thinking I will be the 1% or 1/2% or whatever. I can't believe this, this annoying feeling and worry is really taking the excitement out of this whole experience. I can't wait for next week this time because It will be all over and I will just have to recover and LIVE. I feel more alone now in this experience than ever before
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8 More days to go
on March 3, 2009 6:39 pm
Oh how the time is flying by. I have 8 days left for my surgery and i don't think there is any other emotion that I have not felt this week. I have been happy, excited, anxious, angry, happy oh yeah and happy. I realized today how dependent I am on this website and the advice that I get here. It is like counseling without the counselor. Somehow, if I am nervous and talk to a fellow OH member I feel great. I can't wait to wake up in the recovery roon and hear the nurse say, everything went great...Then and only then will I believe that this is real and it is really happening to me. Oh how blessed I feel. I must thank God everyday because he has blessed me in more ways than I even deserve. I can truly say that my life is good right now and I couldn't imagine it getting any better until now. As I sit here in my bed I am hoping for a complete and healthy future. I am doing this surgery to truly live... I want to live for me, for my husband, for my mother, for the children I hope to have and much more. I look forward to the future with eager anticipation
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