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  • Username: Sweetfiregirl
  • Location: MECHANIC FLS, ME, USA
  • Member Since: 5/3/2012
  • BMI: 35.5
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgery Type: RNY (06/27/12)
  • Surgeon: Jamie Loggins MD.
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Be comfortable in front of the camera rather than behind

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Be sucessful on my journey

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Feel SEXY again!

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Go on a hike

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Ride on a Zip Line

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One Month Post-Op
on July 26, 2012 6:05 am
Hello! So I am one month post op... I am not sure yet my total lost for one month til I stop at the drs office in the morning. The first month has been pretty good. I have some good days and some off days. For the most part I am getting in my fluids and protein. I returned back to work and thats been a little challenging with getting my fluids in as I almost forget. Its a totally different routine than pre-op. I started to exercise again but going slowly. I think my biggest challenge is my head tells me I have way more energy then my body actually has.... a little frustrating. Well thats about it for now. I will update when I get my numbers. Have a great everyone :)
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My Date!
on June 14, 2012 11:19 am
My date is set for 6/27/12!!! They couldn't get me into pre-op or I would have had it on the 20th... It actually works out better for me so I can get things situated at work. Im so nervous!
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Insurance APPROVED!!!
on June 12, 2012 2:15 pm
  Well I decided to call the insurance company yesterday to ask how long I can expect to wait…. I was already approved!!! I called the DR this morning and she gave me a tentative date of 6/20/12… that’s next Wednesday! I am so excited but boy I have a lot to do for work, thank goodness they knew this could happen this soon. Oh my head is spinning thinking of the prep that needs to be done for while I am out. Well off to project planning I go…. Have a fabulous day
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4lbs to go...
on June 11, 2012 6:39 am
  So I stopped at the dr office on my way to work to get weighted to see where I am at with my 16lb goal…. Happy to say only 4lbs left. This 16lbs is so I don’t have to do a 2 week liquid pre-diet. I will check in again with them on Wednesday. Still have not heard from the insurance company. I need to hear soon in order to get it scheduled before July. I have not lost faith yet….  

I will continue to do my shake in the morning, shake at lunch time and a low/no carb dinner…. It seems to be working so far!
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Its in the Insurance hands now....
on June 7, 2012 9:56 am
  The WLS team met yesterday and it was decided I have met all their requirements and they are submitting to the insurance company! I am so nervous…. I want to be excited but I am afraid to because it could come back denied. I really hope it doesn’t. I am so ready to move on with my life. I hope the case reviewer is in a good mood when they get my case…lol, hopefully I don’t get a slacker and it sits and sits


  Any way I cant worry about it…. Its in the insurance hands now… just got to say a prayer and hope for the approval. Have a wonderful day everyone…if anyone is reading this.
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My Story

HI… My name is Kelli and my story begins just about like everyone else’s does. As I kid I was a little on the chubbier side of the scale but not too bad. My teenage years I was very active and on the skinny side. It wasn’t until after I had my first child that I became overweight. After having him, I was able to lose some of the baby weight and was pleased, then I got married, had another baby, got comfortable and it all went downhill from there. I didn’t do much exercising as I was a busy working mom with a husband and two boys. What seems like a go go go life it wasn’t the healthy go life. I had a desk job and school so I wasn’t very active but extremely busy.

  I would have the same conversations over and over in my head about wanting to lose weight, going on some diet, losing the weight, going off the diet and gaining everything plus more back. My doctor gave me different pills to try and those all worked for the short period of time, but no long term success.

  So imagine my surprise when you combine the right foods and exercise weight comes off! However you really have to do the two together and for the longest time I wasn’t able to that. I would do one or the other but not together for a long period of time.

  (FAST FORWARD A FEW YEARS)…..

  End of February 2011, I took the first step and started a couch to 5K program and 8 weeks later I ran my first 5k. I was hooked on the exercise bug. I started working with a personal trainer 3 days a week and doing my own thing the other days. I was eating healthy and doing what was right but sadly the scale weren’t showing what we all had hoped to see. My trainer finally suggested I go see my doctor, as my trainer was seeing the hard work I was doing and the results not producing. After seeing my doctor she sent me to an Endocrinologist and come to find out my body is genetically designed to be fat! Imagine the horror that I felt hearing that. The doctor said I was a perfect candidate for WLS…. I asked her why she thought that if my body is design like this. She said that if I can get down to a manageable size I can control the gene that is keeping me fat, right now it is controlling me.

(A little more background for you…. I had already started the WLS process twice and backed out at the end because I was losing weight on their “diet” so I figured I hadn’t given it my all if I was losing weight I could do it on my own.)

  After hearing that the likely hood of me doing it on my own for what I wanted was not going to happen and really searching within myself knowing I had explored and done every option out there….. I was missing a piece of my puzzle. I am finally at peace with my decision and know that I have done everything the right way and that I will be successful the final piece get put into place!

  My goals this year are to run 5 5ks and a 10k and I can’t wait to do it lighter and faster!

  Thanks for reading my story and I’d love to chat with anyone :)