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Well Shane had his apt with our primary yesterday and he feels that Shane is a great candidate for weight loss surgery. He gave us a referral to the surgeons office. I got home last night and they had all ready called to schedule his first apt.
Shane called them back this morning and they are getting him in next week on Friday.
I am soo very excited for him to do this. The other night we were lieing in bed and talking about the surgery and the steps leading up to it. Shane seemed to be excited about the beginning of a whole new life. Today we were talking about our boys and as to weather we thought that they would be better off weight wise because they would have to thin parents and because of our diets. I hope so because we both know what it was like growing up being the fat kid and we don't want that for our boys. Sometimes it makes me happy that I dint have a daughter, I think that I would make the poor girl have an eating disorder because I would want her to try to stay slim. I know that sound awful but you all know what I mean. But any who I will let you know how his apt. goes next week.

Hello everyone out there! Well everything is going great here. I am down to 164. That is a wonderful number, and weight that starts with a 1 makes me happy. Well I have great news, my wonderful husband has decided that he is ready to have the surgery too. I am soo very proud of him. The other day I just asked him if he had given any thought to it and he said he had. I called the surgeons office and they have changed the way they operate a little. They now make you have a referral from your primary Dr. They had so many people coming in and they hadn't even talked to their Dr. yet.
That's OK cause he has an apt. with our primary Tues. morning. I am excited for him, I really am. He weighs about 340, and at the age of 30 is on blood pressure meds and cholesterol meds.
 That is a lot for someone that just turned 30. We asked our kids the other night what they thought of daddy having surgery to make his tummy smaller like mommy did and the 3 year old looked at me and said "you still have a tummy", gotta love small children. Our 6 year old was very excited. He said then daddy will be able to play with me more. I think that stuck a nerve in my husband. I dint think he realized that my son has noticed daddy doesn't play enough.
I myself will be happy to see him healthy. He lost his dad almost 5 years ago now due to heart problems. His dad had his first heart attack in his late 30's. I told him the other night that I loved him and I didn't want his kids to remember their daddy in a hospital bed with tubes. I want them to remember a fun healthy daddy. Have I mentioned how proud of him I am?lol
He is a great man,husband,father and friend. He has always been there for me and now it's my turn to be there for him, He took such great care of me when I had my surgery, he slept on uncomfortable cots in the hospital, walked the halls with me and made me soup when we came home, I love him soo much. I can't wait till we are both on the loosing side together.
He is my hero for so many reasons and this is just another thing to add to the list. He's brave and strong and I love him for that.

OK enough of the mushy stuff. I will keep you all posted on his progress. As for me I feel great!! I am now into a size 12 14 and it is wonderful. I have cleaned out all the clothes from the dresser and closet that were my fat clothes. Wow you never really know how big you are till you try on the old clothes. I was a BIG mama!!! heehee
But any who knock on wood everything is great. Well almost everything, I have to go for a MRI on Monday, the top of my right thigh is numb my Doc thinks it is my L5 in my back. I'm sure its nothing big.

Here is a little list of things I have done since I have lost weight

Jumped into a pool and not worried about the size of the splash
wore a 2 piece bathing suite
went to EPCOT and rode rides and I fit
rode in a plane and fit in my own seat and not anyone Else's
have gone out dancing
rode on the back of my hubby's Harley and fit and it was WONDERFUL...
I can now fit my mothers clothes....

I cant wait for the list to grow!

It has been a very long time since I wrote. So busy over the last 10 months. As of yesterday I hit my goal of 169 I am down 100lbs. That seems totaly unreal that I have lost that much in less then a year. It is unbelievable the way I feel. Sometimes I find myself stareing at myself when I walk by a large window or a mirror I have to take a second look. Another thing is getting attention from men. That I will never get used to. We all went out New Years eve and we went to a bar and there were these guys playing pool and the one guy was totaly hitting on me and it was so very weird. Don't get me wrong it was nice but so very weird at the same time. I feel that I have learned a lot about myself and about those that that are around me this last year. My family anf friends have been nothing but suportive and that has been great. My youngest sister says that that she never looked at me as being a fat person but now when we look at pics she says that she can't even remember me looking like that. My kids to have even been telling me that I am pretty and that they like me better this way. And my husband he has been the most wonderful person threw this whole thing, I was so scared about how this would effect our realationship and I have since learned that we had a srong love and trust in eachother before this and it is even stronger now. He of course loves me as I was and loves me the same this way. I saw so many realationships fail after surgery that I was nervous that he wouldn't like the new me. I mean the me inside the one that has been waiting to come out. I feel that I am still the same me just smaller and stronger. I has condefance and I am not worried what others think of me. I FEEL FREE!!!  I will have to post the pic from new years of my sisters and me. I have always been the biggest, and have always looked at them as the tall,thin pretty ones and when I saw the pic for the first time I felt as pretty as them. I looked like I belonged. It was a great feeling to belong. Also when we took Christmas pics. I normaly hide behind everyone and this year I was out in frot saying look at me! I am excited for this new year. I feel like I am just beinging my life. I will be 31 in March and I have decided that it will be the new 21. 21 seems like the year in your life that you come into your own and fun begins, so I figure this is my year of new begingings.

THINGS I HAVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO AND HAVE ACOMPLISHED:

ice skating with my kids
sledding with my kids
fitting into a size 12
rode a bike and didn't look to big for it
 so much more to come.

To those of you reading this I wish you luck and sucess with your choice if you have ?'s or need someone to talk to I am here. talk at you all soon.

Wow it has been a while since I have been in here to update this. I couldn't figure out how to get in. Any who I have wonderful news I have made it to ONDERLAND! Yup it hapened this morning. I have been at 200 for a day or so and this morning I was 199. It is so amazing to me that I am back to a 1. I have lost 70 lbs. now in 4 months and 2 weeks and I guess from the estimated weight loss page I should have hit this weight at 8 months.

I am now in xl and sixe 16/17. My feet even seem to be loosing weight.
My little sister is getting married on October 4th and we have ordered my dress and it should be shipped to me within the week. We ordered it in the begining of June wich was also 30 lbs. ago so I can't wait to see how much altering will have to be done. I am so excited!!! I am even looking forward to the winter. When I told my 5 year old that I was going to have surgery I told him that mommy was going to have a surgery to make her loose weight so I could play with him more and go sled riding this winter soo you see when ever we talk to someone new and we are talking about my surgery he informs them that I had the surgery so I could go sledding with him. So I guess I need to start looking for adult snow pants. But any ways I need to go to bed now but I will update again tomorrow when I am fully awake. Later me

I would just like to start by saying thank you to Chelle Ms. Starryeyez for taking the time to give me info. on this surgery and for not sugar coating. I am so very happy that I have had this surgery, I will be 8 weeks on Wed. and I am down 38lbs. and feeling FANTASTIC! I have soo much energy and I love it.

This has been a great thing for my whole family, my husband had thought about having RNY too but then after seeing the diet after surgery he ws thinking that was not for him. But he has had a change for the better. He joined a gym and has started eating better. He is down 13 lbs. I am so very proud of him. He is wearing pants he hasn't been able to wear in over a year.  It is a great change for us as well as the kids. They wee getting away with soda and junk food way to much in a given week and now we have a fun meal once a week and they are seeing how much more energy we have. 
We both have been in a much better mood since we have started loosing weight. I was a little worried about how the eating thing was going to work because I wasn't going to be able to eat crap and well he still is able to. We had been eachothers eating buddy and once I wasn't able to eat it he didn't want to do it in front of me. He is even eting things from the organic section at the grocery store. 
I have found that I am ok with foods that are made with raw sugar cane. Everyone keeps saying that it is going to be so expensive eating that way but you figure we were ordering out at least 2 to 3 times a week so the money we were wasting on bad stuff is equvelent to what we are spending on the god stuff. 
I still find it weird not to feel any unger but I am not complaing it's a blessing. I like not being hungery. My hubby got me some sugar free Dove choclates and I was soo very excited and I had one and I can honestly say it taste like heaven but it wasn't like it used to be. I ate one and ws good it hit the craving. He brought the candy home Monday night and I have had 5 peices. If it were before surgery I would have had that bag gone in one sitting. 
I started water aerobics last week with my little sister. So much fun and what a work out. I wish I could do every class they offer in a week. I have only gone to 1 class a week so far. I planned on going this Monday morning but I have a post-op visit at t he same time as the class. I hope to go Tues,Wed and Thursday this week. They offer it at the YMCA I'm not a member so I have to pay 7 bucks every time I go. I would like to get a membership but you know how it works some months there just isn't going to be an extra $50 for the membership fee. But any who thats enough of an update. I will check in on my 8 week and let you know if I hit my goal of 40lbs. Have a great weekend all.

Hi everyone! well I am 1 week out now and feeling great. had my post-op visit today and I am down 15 lbs. I do believe the last time that I weighed 254 was about 10 years ago. 

Surgery went well no complications that I am aware of. I had a little problem waking up and spent 3 hrs. in recovery. When I woke up I felt my stomach and a sked if they were able to do it lap. and they said yes. I was soo very happy. 

I had a little problem with poo poo! I wasn't aware of the whole diareah thingthat was not good. I was all by myself and called the nurse to help me. She brought me wash clothes and asked if I needed help, I was so embaressed that I told her no and stood in the bathroom and cried. Istarted thinking what the hell have I done to myself. I was so upset and just wanted to go back in time and say never mind I have changed my mind. 

Now that I am home and I have made it threw the 1st week and am seeing the scale move I am soo very excited. I have been living on propell water,plain water and fruit bars. Everything is going in easy. 

I just have to remember that everyone has to go threw this faise tho get to the next! I had made all this Broth and made my own juice pops and every time I open the frezzer I want to throw up so I make my husband get it for me.
 I came home on Sat. and had decided that we were still going to go to Easter service. Everyone thought that I was nutts. Let me tell you I felt so much better getting up and out of the house. Everyone was happy to see me and I found out that woman in our congrigation had the surgery done years ago. She said that she was amazed to see that I was up and around this soon after surgery. I guess she had it done open.ugh!

Well let me tell you next Wed. I go to meet with the dietician and I will avance to a full liquid diet. This makes me happy. So far I don't feel any hungery physical or mentaly.I was afraid that I was going to have head hunger but so far so good. I even sat at the table on Easter and watched everyone eat. Didn't bother me one bit. It all smelled soo good but just watching everyone eat and the smells made me feel as though I had eaten too. I am having cravings for cheese,peanuts and peanut butter. The othe day I sat there and sniffed the peanut butter jar, it was heavenly.

My B-day was yesterday and my sister gave me $50 to buy new clothes. After my appt. today wee went over to the mall and I went to the Burlington Coat Factory and looked around. I ended up finding 5 shirts and a really cute skirt. I bought them all in size xl. I figured there was no sence in buying things 1 size smaller due to the length of time that I will be in them. I did buy a skirt for church though due to my belly being swollen I had only one pair of pants in the closet that I could wear Sunday. It made the pain and the not eating seem worht it. Now I feel that I have goal clothes to hang in my closet. I am proud of myself for following threw with I said that I was going to do. Normally I don't but this is one thing that I can say will make me proud of myself everyday!!!

I was thinking of things that I can't wait to do and I have decided that running is one thing that I want to do. I watch people run down the road they look so free and at ease. I can't wait to try. I have had dreams off running and in my dreams it felt wonderful! 

Well folks I must go drink some water now so I will post again next week!

Well folks tomorrow is the big day, I am so ready to be the BIGGEST looser! Please pray for me, a little help from God couldn't hurt. I hope every thing goes as planned and my parents get over to the hospital before they take me in for surgery. I am schedualed for the 1st surgery of the day. I have my bag all ready and I have the boys bag packed for their over night at grandma's house.  Well I should go to bednow we have to get up at 4am. We have a hour drive and we have to be over there by 5:30. So my friends I will post when I get home from the hospital witch should be Sat. Ok! bye -Shannon

Ok!  So it has been a while since I last posted anything. I am having my surgery next week on the 19th. YA HOO!  I am so freaken excited!!!
I want to thank those of you that I have sent messages to and you have replied. I have been getting things ready around the house I have been trying to get all caught up on the laundry and making sure all the bills are paid early. Yesterday I made chicken broth and froze them in ice cube trays and I also made homeade popcicles with nothing but stawberries,rasberries and a little splenda. My husband and I are going to get gauze pads and all the other supplies. 

Let me tell you I am so very nervous and at the same time soo very excited to be on the loosing side. The hospital called me this morning to do my pre-registration over the phone, Boy let me tell you the questions that they ask are rather strange. They wanted to know my faith,church name and if I wanted my pastor to be notifed that I was going to be under going surgery. Kinda made me feel like I wasn't going to be coming back out of the hospital. 
 
My 4 yr. old has been listening to my conversations about having the surgery and the other day he asked me why I was having surgery and I told him that mommy was going to have surgery to make my tummy smaller so I could loose weight and be able to have more energy to play with him and his brother, I told him that I was sad becasue I couldn't play with him the way I wanted to. After he understood what I was telling him he looked at me and asked if when my tummy was smaller if we could try sking. I told him I would love to! 

I think that I am more nervous about my boys being left without a mommy if god forbid anything went wrong. I know everything will be fine but as a parent you worry about that kind of stuff.  

I keep thinking this time next year hopfully I will be 100 pounds smaller and healthier and a avid skier lol. 
I have bought a pair of Victoria Secret undies size large, these are my goal undies to be into by the new year. So any who I will update you all later.

Hello! Well Friday afternoon I called my mom to make sure that she faxed over the letter from the insurance company and she said that she had done that as soon as she got there. As soon as I got off the phone with her the phone rang and it was the surgeons office. Deb said that she appologized, she got the fax my mom sent over and saw that it was a letter of approval and she started searching and found that my insurance BCBS of PA had taken the claim over the phone. So she said that I will be getting a call from her this week with a surgery date and dates for my pre-op apts. 

I can't believe that I have finally  gotten this far. Even thought I would like to have all ready been on the loosing side I think having this last year of almost has given me the extra time to make sure that I really want to do this. I am very nervous but I am soo very excited  to do this!!! I will post when I get my date. Once again good luck to everyone who is taking this jurney.

Hello everyone! Well yesterday was a great day and a confusing one at the same time. I got the mail yesterday and there was a letter from the insurance company, dredding what it said I opened it quickly. To my suprise it was a letter of apporval. Ya Hoo! 
I call the Dr,'s office and I talked to Deb and She said that she didn't know how or what I had gotten because they hadn't sent anything in yet. I am very confused because I do believe that the insurance company doesn't sned people letters saying that they have reviewd my case and have been approved. They wanted to see the letter so I gave it to my mother so she could fax it over to them today. I hope to hear from them some time today.  

The letter also gave a tenative date of March 5th for surgery. Everyone cross your fingers that I hear something today, I don't think I can stand having to wait over the weekend. Any who I hope everyone has a great weekend. I hope I have a date by next week. Bye for now