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weigh under 200 lbs!

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Ride a bike again

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Learn yoga

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My goal is to be a healthy energetic mom.

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go to a water park and not feel ashamed

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Sick!!
on May 26, 2008 11:38 am
So I had my first post surgery (out of the hospital) vomiting experience last night.  It's nice to know that my tool is working, but I feel like crap today!!  I decided to eat a stuffed mushroom and for some reason I wolfed it down super fast in big chunks.  I didn't chew very well.  So, up it came.  Ehhhh.  Crab stuffed mushrooms.  Not cool.  My pouch is so sore today.  Oh well, I'm going to stick with puddings and liquids today.
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My first mini goal
on May 25, 2008 10:53 pm
I hit my first mini goal today.  I broke 250 and am now 249!!  This is the lightest  I have been since being here in Washington.  I'm so excited.  It is starting to feel like I don't do anything and I keep losing weight.  It's a weird feeling.  I don't feel like I am on a "diet" anymore, so it doesn't feel like I should be losing weight and then I step on the scale and am blown away that I lost more.  My next goal is 229, so wish me luck!!!!
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Surgery
on May 10, 2008 9:10 am
So I had surgery on Monday the 5th of May.  It went well but I guess I took a bit longer than normal in recovery. I felt great and got up and walked right after.  Then I fell asleep.  The next day, I walked and walked but I was starting to feel sick to my stomach.  They were wanting me to pureed chicken and beef and pork.  I tried some, but wasn't really feeling like eating.  The next day (Wed) I was even more naseus and I was supposed to go home that night.  I started throwing up and they kept me until Thursday at 2pm.  They finally got my vomiting under control and I wasn't as queezy.  Thursday night was ok.  The pain meds made my stomach upset so I was just doing tylenol.  By friday I was miserable.  I was so sick to my stomach and in pain and uncomfortable because of the miserable gas.  I was wondering wth I did to myself.  Saturday seems to be going much better and I will be going on a walk soon.  I've lost almost 10 pounds since Monday.  Crazy.
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My story is a lot like most people that are looking to lose a large amount of weight.  I don't remember a lot from my childhood so I'm not sure when I got fat!  I know that 5th grade was the first time that I ever paid attention to being weighed.  It was in the gym in front of the entire class  and I weighed 150  pounds when everone else was under 100.  I was so embarrased.  It never crossed my mind that I was fat until then.  It was downhill from there.  I tried diet after diet during my early teens up until now.  When I was in high school my highest weight was 190 and I dieted down to 170.  I felt huge but in retrospect, I wasn't all that large, just a little chubby.  I still had lots of boyfriends and friends and was very outgoing.  The typical chubby funny gal.  

I married one of my high school boyfriends when we were both 19.  We're still together and will be celebrating our 11th anniversary in May.  We have a 4 year old son who is wonderful.  I love my husband, and my son more than anything!

I think that I eat mostly for comfort.  I eat when I'm bored, tired, sad, happy.  It doesn't really matter.  The only reason that I'm fat is because I LOVE sweets.  Cake, brownies, candy anything!  I'm hoping that having RNY will help me be able to control my sugar intake.  I don't want to eat poorly anymore and I'm ready to trade in this big body on a smaller one!  I'm hoping that I dump on poor food choices and am really looking forward to making better food decisions for myself and my son who learns by watching me!  Once I reached a certain point in my weight I kind of adopted a "why bother?" attitude about food choices.  I wish I could get rid of that attitude!  It just doesn't seem like it matters anymore.  I'm hoping that once I start losing after surgery I will realize that it does matter!!