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John W. Baker M.D.
My first impression of Dr. Baker is that he truly cares about obesity as an epidemic and helping obese individuals. That impression has stayed with me both times I have met him. His staff is very friendly in person. On the phone, they seem a little eager to get OFF the phone. (I understand that, they're busy.) I don't have anything that I dislike about him so far. Future patients should know that he is no-nonsense, direct and honest. (He has beautiful blue eyes too that almost hypnotize you if you look into them while he's talking to you. It's weird - I'm not kidding.) He really puts an emphasis on aftercare, even going so far as to say that he doesn't want you for a patient if you aren't going to do the aftercare. He does have a structured aftercare program that is really supportive. He is blunt about the risks of surgery in his seminars and in all the paperwork you have to sign. I would rate him a 10 out of 10. Both surgical competence and bedside manner are great.
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  • Comment by sykoeve on 8/22/07 7:44 pm
    Hope you are feeling better and will soon be home.
  • Comment by EvelynsMom on 8/20/07 9:46 pm
    Good luck Wendy!! From Evelyn's mom:)
  • Comment by tammiekay on 8/20/07 5:47 pm
    Best of wishes today. Hope you have a speedy recovery. May God bless you in your new life. Tammie
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Still losing...
on November 30, 2007 10:13 pm

Almost down 65 pounds!  Only about 51 pounds left to go to goal!

I'm losing much slower than I was in the beginning, but still losing!  

I drank a lot of water today - more than usual really.  Usually I'm drinking a lot of crystal light and skim milk.  Today I was more of a water girl.

It has been SO cold today - uncomfortably so.  It will get worse I'd imagine but at least I found my coat (which I left in the back seat of my big truck).  Woo Hoo!

I wore one of my last Lane Bryant shirts today - one of those 2 that I actually bought NEW a month or so ago.  It was a good choice - I got 3 compliments on it today.  

I wish we were having support group this month.  I will miss everybody over the holiday.  

My best friend quit where we work and has gone to work somewhere else.  My boss (who I used to work closely with when I worked in the office) just started chemo for breast cancer.  My son & daughter are going to stay the night with people tonight and having company tomorrow night.  My husband is working, so I'm lonely tonight.  

I actually watched some TV tonight (Stargate Atlantis) and it was good.  Oh and I also went to a consignment shop and dropped off ALL my size 18/20 wardrobe (except for 1 Emma James top that says it is size 18, but really is more like a 14).  I also went by the grocery store & bought some sugar free fudge popsicles (my favorite popsicle even as a pre-op).  I wish they sold them in individual packs though.  The kind I like only come in a variety pack with popsicles & creamsicles in them (neither of which I care for - well okay, the popsicle ones are okay sometimes - but the creamsicles suck).

I'm behind in my work, or at least I feel like I am.  Thank god I'm not training that new employee though.  I can't even BEGIN to tell y'all about that.  I could tell you some things that would keep you up at night, believe me.  

I'm thinking about going shopping tomorrow.  I haven't decided yet.  I love shopping.  I could really do it for a living I love it so much.  

I shopped a little bit on eBay tonight (while I was on here actually).  I bid on some Hannah Montana tickets for my daughter and me.  But I only bidded up to $201 on floor seats, so I have been outbid already now.  Oh well.  I don't need to spend anymore money this close to Christmas.  I don't really want to go see Hannah Montana anyway and it's not like my daughter needs to go.  She gets enough of what she wants without me adding this to it.  (Spoiled.)

I've just finishing another bottle of water.  I may be up peeing all night!  LOL

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Discouraged by DSers
on November 29, 2007 5:50 am
I try to come on here and read every day.  There has been so much drama lately between the RNYers and the DSers that it is really just sickening.  

I can't believe on a supposed support site, one group would try so hard to down another.  It is discouraging and disheartening.  

I think I'm going to start blocking most of the DSers.  They don't do anything but spew halftruths about RNY to pre-ops, but post-ops (like me) always end up seeing that crap.  We don't need to see that - it just puts negative energy in our heads/hearts.  If you tell yourself lies enough, you'll start to believe them.  I know for a fact many things they are saying are lies, but I don't want to constantly be reading/seeing them. 

I don't know why they can't just talk up their procedure without downing ours. 

I didn't used to want to use the block feature, but I do write toxic people out of my real life - so why not here?
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Sunday - BLAH...
on November 25, 2007 1:24 pm
I just had about 10 paragraphs written and accidentally deleted them all.  I'm not retyping them, so let me sum up everything I had said in a few sentences.  Sorry if this post is so choppy.

Today feels down probably because I was so busy the last 3 days shopping until I dropped.  I didn't get everything I needed by a long shot though - I have much more to get!  

I have to go back to work tomorrow.  I'm training and I hate it. 

It's too cold and too wet: I'm sick of it.  

I need a velour sweat suit for the cold to have something warm and comfortable to wear - but none of the tops fight me right (too short).

Rainy weather makes my hair turn into a strawberry fuzz ball after a moment of two, no matter what style it started out in when I left the house.

The high point of my day was weighing in at 191.8 (63.6 pounds lost, 51.8 pounds to goal).

I woke up too late because I stayed up late with my kids (and my nephews who stayed all night).  Didn't start eating/drinking until about 30 minutes ago, so I'll have to really be careful to eat/drink every minute today to get in all my protein/fluids.  

Now, let me go ahead and post this before I accidentally delete it again.
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Loosing again... sort of...
on November 20, 2007 3:41 pm
Well, I weighed again today.  All the "weight" I gained over the last 3 days is gone.  I am back down to 194.4 (what I weighed on 11/15/07 before the "gain" started).  Who knows what's going on at this point?
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I'm trying very hard not to freak out right now.
on November 18, 2007 1:05 pm
I weighed yesterday and today.  Both days showed a GAIN.  According to the scale, I have gained 1.6 pounds in the last 3 days.  I ignored it yesterday because it was so little that I figured it was probably whatever I was wearing or just the time of day difference of something.  But today it showed a gain too.  

It is honestly puzzling because I have kept my calories right around 600 like I am supposed to.  Not only that, most of what I eat is skim milk or protein drinks, not even real food.  So I KNOW high fat intake is definately not something that applies to me.  

For instance, it is 3 pm here right now.  So far today, I have had:
breakfast - 2 cups skim milk
lunch - 1 medium egg, 1/4 slice cheese melted on it & 1/2 slice whole grain toast
high protein snack - 1/2 protein shake
Total, that's about 430 calories, 6 grams of fat, 17 carbs and 50 grams of protein.  That is exactly where I should be each day about now.

I could handle a complete stall because I honestly half-way expected one of those.  So many people have those after all.  But a GAIN!  W.T.F.

It is really hard not to begin completely starving myself as was my first instinct when I saw that today.  I know logically that that is definately NOT the answer.  But since I have NO hunger now it would be very easy to do, so the urge was there to quit eating all together.  I don't think I'm going to weigh for a while.  I'm scared to now.  I was losing so fast that I have been so excited to weigh (almost every day).  But not anymore.  Now I see why they say NOT to weigh every day.  It's great while you're losing, but if you stall or heaven forbid show a gain, it is almost devastating.

And NO it is not my time of the month.  I just finished that a week or so ago.  So that's not it either.  God please help me.  

I know I said I'd be happy if I never lost another pound, and I would still not regret doing this if I did never lose another pound.  But it would be devastating to stop now after coming so far (over half-way).  I'm not ready to stop losing and I can't really believe that I'm done losing.  

With what I consume every day calorie/fat/carb wise, I can't really stop losing.  (I don't think it's possible.)  

I am trying to look at the bright side.  At least I get to wear my size 16 second-hand/thrift-store wardrobe a while.  I should be happy about that. 
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