My anniversary sorry it's a little late

Jun 14, 2010

So as most of you know I had surgery and have been adjusting to it for the last year.  It is very hard to get it all in. Not only the vitamin, minerals, protein, but water and food as well. It feels like I am constantly putting something in my mouth! I was never this obsessed with food/eating before. I find it hard to get in enough water so I am slightly dehydrated all the time. I have trouble keeping my D & B levels in the normal ranges.  I am taking B shots, and 50,000 mg of D every week to help it stay up. Other than that I seem to be doing very well with my vitamin and minerals levels. I still have my knee length hair intack so I guess I have been doing well with protein. It has never tested low. Considering what my girlfriend looked like after a year on the wrong protein, I feel fortunite. She looked like a cemo survivor because she was drink the wrong protein. I hadn't talk to her in a few years, and we didn't know that we were both getting WLS at about the same time. I had you all to help me find my way and she had nothing but problems without OH for help. I am greatful too you all for everything!

When I went to NY for my surgery I volunteered for a couple research studies. A cognitive study and a body composition study. In the cognitive study I just do a lot of memory and hand eye stuff. The body comp. I have my weight, measurements check in many ways. I have a full body bone dex scan, and a full body MRI. I really did this for the MRI. I figure if there is anything wrong with me the MRI will tell us. They found gallstones. I knew I had them before the surgery but my doctor said if it wasn't giving me trouble I should leave it alone. Of course I think it is giving me trouble now, but I found that after drinking flax seed ice tea w/ lemon for a couple of days they went away!

My doctor says I am right on target and keep doing what I have been doing. Ok so I haven't changed my eating habits at all and I am still losing weight. I eat whatever I want. I don't eat a lot of it, but I eat what I want and am losing weight as fast everyone else. I do feel hungry all the time though. I don't know if it is because of  the water, or if it is the carbs that make me hungry all the time. I know everyone say do low carb, but I didn't and my body and doctor say that I am doing great so please don't give me a hard time about fessing up to you guys here. I thought long and hard about keeping it from you all, but I felt it was unfair to not tell everyone about it so they could make their own judgements about it for themselves. I don't know if it would work the same for anyone else, and I am not suggesting that anyone else do what I am. I am just saying that I didn't do low carb. I was going to and I had every intention of doing it but I just kept proscrastinating and proscrastinating, but I was still losing. I just decided that I would wait till I stopped losing as fast as everyone else and start on low carb. Well that never happened. I know that is not what most of you have experienced, but it is what happen with me.

I do have problems with gas, Oh boy do I, but that is because of the carbs. Yes I have the worst gas, and do get bouts of diarrhea when I eat something my body can't handle...ie... tomato sauce, too much fat or oil. I just live and learn. My husband laughs his butt off at the gas. We joke that the baby is talking because he can hear my stomach gargle across the room! It is so funny because strangers out in public can hear it too and they just look at me and say boy you should go eat something, little did they know that it was gas! LOL

I was in Walmart the other day and saw they had Miley Cyrus low rise jeans on the clearance rack for $7 so I bought myself a pair of 15s. I though I might get into them in a month or two, but when I got home I tried them on and they went all the way up! I was like holycrap! I picked them because when ever I buy pants the waist usually go all the way up to my boobs because my waist is so short. I hate that. I figured that they were low rise but they wouldn't be too low because she a disney kid. They went to just under my belly button. Perfect! I have been wearing them for the last three days showing them off to everyone! I even went back and bought a smaller pair for next month! I have the lines from this song going through my head as I walk around in them...

I look up to the sky
And now the World is mine
Ive known it all my life
I made it, I made it!
I used to dream about, the life I'm living now
I know that there's no doubt.
I made it, I made it!

Staring at you from the top of the game man
I might drop the World if I change hands
Uh it feel good to be here, Weezy in the building got this b-tch rebuilt     



Everybody says I look younger. My waist was 120.8 and is now 96.7 , my hips were 150.3 and now 115.2 My body mass index was 51.7 and is now 32.7.

Fat weight: was 183.3 and is now 85.6
Lean weight: was 123.6 and is now 107.8
Total weight: was 306.8 and is now 193.3 at my one year anniversary!

I see I have lost some of my lean muscle so I need to work harder on my working out to keep my muscle mass up.  I am doing the belly dancing workouts on fit TV, the show call Shimmy. I am sore after but it is fun, and I am learning belly dancing moves! I have membership to a gym, and they have a cardo room that show movies on a big screen in th dark. I spend an hour in there when ever I get the time. I must admit that is not a lot, but I am trying which I wouldn't have done a year ago.

 I have lost...
 

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