kelkelrenee
Surgiversary...
May 14, 2008
Wow.. today is exactly one year since I had my Gastric Bypass Surgery. It has been so long since I've been on OH... I've been doing my blogging on Live Journal. http://kelkelrenee.livejournal.com/ It's been really good for me, but I do miss coming on OH. I just had a conversation with one of my co-workers who had her WLS just 6 days before mine. Discussing WLS related issues with her made me remember how much I need my OH family!
So I'm exactly one year out today. I've gone from a tight size 26 to a size 10, a 3x or 4x to a medium, and from 313 pounds to 170. I have lost 143 lbs so far, but I did set my own goal of 160 and I still have my eyes on that number. Although I feel great, so as long as I'm staying active and eating right I'm not gonna worry about it too much.
My boyfriend and I celebrated 6 months together on Monday and since my surgiversay is today... he took me out last night to celebrate. He took me to PF Changs where I had my favorite, Vegitarian Lettuce Wraps! Very sweet boy! I'm about to have my 31st birthday on the 31st of this month... and I couldn't be more excited. So far, 30 was my best year ever... so I'm down for 31! I'm gonna have a big party since my birthday falls on a Saturday. I'm hoping my dear, dear friend Penny (who came into my life thanks to OH!!) can make it!
Well, it's been a crazy amazing year... I hope that everyone is doing great and is happy with their Journey so far... it really just goes on and on!!
Love,
Kelly
Wow.....
Jan 18, 2008
Now, I'm not much for "New Years Resolutions" but I have decided that one thing I want to do is to utilize all the great support tools I have around me. That and make sure that I don't take things for granted and forget that I'm different when it comes to food and nutrition. So I went to my favorite support group the other night and reconnected w/the great people that I haven't seen in months! And I even got a new Gym buddy out of it...
Anyway, things that are different:
I've flown three times since my weight loss and can NOT believe the difference! Not only do I have room to relax and don't need an extender.. I can straight up cross my legs in the airplane seat! That blows my mind. 
One of those flights took me to Hawaii. It was so amazing and really the trip of a lifetime. I went w/my Brother and his Girlfriend. I enjoyed every minute of that trip... We went snorkeling at Hanama Bay! You have to walk down a steep hill to get to the beach... and remember, what goes down.. must come up! And as I was walking up the hill... I saw the optional tram going up and down the hill and thought that for sure would have been me on there last year!! It was beautiful... and we are already planning the next trip!
I took on a second job in addition to the full-time one I already have...and the energy that I have is amazing. I just know that I wouldn't have been able to pull it off before! I work at an Arena here in San Jose, where the hockey team the Sharks play! It's really a lot of fun. The crowds are generally great and I've actually gotten used to going up and down all those arena stairs 10 plus times a game!! There are several regulars who are really friendly and there's an older guy who I became friends with and just found out that he had his Gastric Bypass almost three years ago! It's so funny how you find people who can relate everywhere you go! 
I've got my flexi back! LOL When I was a little girl I was so flexible, I used to sit around twisting myself into pretzels!! These days it's just like old times! I want to take up Yoga so I can put this stuff to good use! In general the physical stuff is crazy... Just being able to squat and get back up easily! Getting up off the floor w/out breaking my neck. Crossing my legs and tucking my foot all the way around my calf. Walking. Running. Bringing my knees to my chin... these things are my favorite part.Things are different for sure and I really do want to get on here more and blog it out! It makes me feel better and I really should do it more often! It has helped me so much... I can't even describe. I first came to OH and set up this page on New Years Day of last year. It had been a really bad New Years Eve, and it was early evening the next day. I remember sitting at my desk in my old apartment and feeling like 2007 just had to be better. I started reading people's stories and relating to strangers! No one really knew what I was planning on doing except my mom and one friend. I didn't want people to know until it was for sure. I had scheduled an appt w/my PCP to get the referral and felt like it would be a million years before I got there. It wasn't a good time for me personally. I had decided to take a break from anything romantic while I worked on figuring myself out...It was a good time in the sense that I had decided to take control of my life, but a bad time in the sense that I really was at the end of my rope.
Fast forward one year... 2007 was the best year yet. It lived up to all my hopes.. and 2008 is gonna have a hard time following that act! Side note: This year I didn't spend New Years Day in a dark apartment by myself. I spent it with my boyfriend, at a New Years Day "Champagne Bowl" party, meeting his family. So I guess 2008 is gonna give 2007 a run for it's money after all.
xoxo,
Kelly
Things that are good....
Sep 10, 2007
My new official, visit with the surgeon, weight loss as of Friday is... 82 pounds!! This is awesome and makes me super excited. It's also got me appreciating the little things....
I went to a concert with my friend Brittany on Thursday night... it was so good! I had floor tickets for the first time in YEARS... cuz in the past I would be way to tired from standing the whole show. My legs, feet and back would be hurting too much. So I got standing floor tix for the Rilo Kiley show and I had a blast. We were there early and saw both opening bands (Grand Old Party and Jonathan Rice... both awesome) and we were dancing all the way through Rilo Kiley's encore! It was so awesome. I was also able to buy band shirts there and I can actually wear them... It was a great night and I'm sooo glad I went... (p.s. David, I wish u had been there!!)
I went camping this weekend! It was comedy! There were 12 of us, w/three camp sites not too far from Santa Barbara, California.... there were a lot of bummers (can't swim in the lake, pool full of children-probably peeing, Red Rock-alternate swimming location near by closed, enthusiastic christian campers next door who get to worshipping at the top of their lungs at 6:30 AM) but mostly we could laugh at the craziness, the company was awesome and we ended up driving to the beach! We squeezed 10 people in 2 cars. I sat in the back of one w/two other people... again something I never could do before! It was tight as it was!
I'm leaving on Friday for a long weekend in WA state w/family! I'm so very excited to take the plane... I haven't been in a plane seat in a while and I can't wait to see how it feels now! Hopefully I'll be able to cross off the whole fit comfy in an airplane seat off my "to do" list!
Oh!!!! And a big shout out to my girl Penny for hitting her 100 pound mark!! She's so awesome and has worked so hard to get here!! Cheers to you Penny! I've got some sexy jeans for you!! LOL
Fun pictures coming soon!!
xoxo
Kelly
Good day....
Aug 06, 2007
Today is Monday (weigh day!) and I have officially lost 70 POUNDS since my first meeting with my surgeon (50 since surgery)! Also, I went to Old Navy on Friday and broke down and bought ONE pair of jeans. They were a size 18! Now I'm sure that most girls would not be super excited to fit into an 18, but I couldn't be happier about it!
In unrelated news, I found out yesterday that I got the 2nd job I had applied for! It's at the arena here in San Jose (where the Sharks Hockey team plays) and I think it'll be really interesting. If nothing else, I'll lose even more weight from climbing up and down those stairs all the time!! LOL
So that's it, not super exciting, but exciting enuf for me. Things in general are good.
Monday, weigh in day!
Jul 23, 2007
Today was my one day a week that I weigh in! Other than the time or two during the week when I just can't resist! But those don't count! 
Anyway, I'm down to 249 lbs! This is exciting to me because I've reached my first goal. I wanted to weigh what my Driver's License says I weigh. Now, I actually weigh one pound less! I also just found out that I'll be going to visit my family in WA in a couple months with my Mom. I'm hoping to test out another goal then.... think airplane seat! 
xoxo
I'm a 22.
Jul 21, 2007
Super quick, I just had to blog it....My friend finally came through w/those jeans she had been promising me! They are size 22's, and I couldn't wait to try them on....
They fit!!! I started in very tight 26's!!
So I wear 22's now. That's so cool!
What time is it? New pants time!
Jul 18, 2007
I'm getting closer to my Driver's License goal! I have forced myself to only weigh once a week! Monday had been a week since my last appt, so I weighed in and am down to 252. Only 2 more pounds until I'm the weight that's listed on my Driver's License! I keep on going to the gym. I'm at 4 times a week and one of those times is with a trainer, so I'm doing good. I've still gotten away with wearing the same pants I used to. They were really tight before I started losing weight and now they are super saggy. I told myself that as long as they would stay on, I couldn't justify getting any new ones. It's getting to that point now. It's not cute. My friend Brittany just lost a little bit of weight and has all her size 22 jeans to give to me! So, I'm waitin' on those! Anyway, I added a couple of pictures too! I hope that everyone is doing great!! I'll try to keep you posted!
Just the regular kind of obese...
Jul 09, 2007
Oh yeah, I had rubber legs from my work out with my trainer on Saturday, but I woke up on Sunday and could hardly walk! Today I did the hard part. Returned to the scene of the crime to work out again! It's funny, because when I was on the bike at the gym, my legs didn't hurt at all. Just when I was hobbling out of there! LOL Anyway, two blogs in a row! But I had to check in after my appt. I don't see her again for 2 months.
Thanks as always for listening!
More stuff to get used to...
Jul 07, 2007
I know that I've lost about ten more pounds, but I don't want to update my ticker until I weigh in with my surgeon on Monday! It seems more official to me. I went to a baseball game last week and I'm already fitting into the seats waaaay better than I used to! I'll upload those pic soon! I just really appreciate that stuff. I have so much more weight to lose, but I feel like if I'm already noticing these things now, what's it gonna be like as I get closer to my goal?? I can't wait to see! Things are generally going really well. Plus, my best friend since the 5th grade recently joined OH, so I couldn't be happier about that!
Well, just thought I'd update the blog while I was online. Hope everyone is doing great!
Finally!!!
Jun 18, 2007
It's been exactly FIVE weeks since my surgery! Of course it's an adjustment, I totally expected that. But I must say, that I really couldn't have asked for it to go more smoothly. I haven't gotten sick once. Which was really surprising to me. I think that it's probably because I'm an obsessive chewer! I'm so worried that something won't go down right that I chew it into oblivion!! Which is good I guess, but the only problem is that it makes me get real tired of eating real quick. I'm also never hungry, so eating seems like a whole lotta work!
I went back to work after three weeks. I really wouldn't have wanted to be home longer than that cuz it was getting really old! Which was a real shocker to me! I had tons of DVD's: Freaks and Geeks, Sex and the City, Veronica Mars, etc. etc. I thought that getting to stay home and watch TV would never get old... wrong... So, I'm back at work which is okay, but I'm still not in the groove yet. But I'm working on it!
I spent my first week home being taken care of by my Mommy! I highly recommend it! The second week, I felt fine, and was kind of bored! I went to the movies by myself a lot! It was cool cuz most people are at work on week day mornings.. so I had the place to myself! The third week my cousin and her little girl (my fairy god baby!) came from WA to stay with me! It was so good to see them. And we went down to my mom's on the central coast of California to celebrate my 30th birthday! It wasn't the big 30 year bash I had planned, but under the circumstances it was the perfect night!! Soon after my family went home, I had more house guests. One friend came all the way from New York! Everything has happened so fast that I find it's been 5 weeks and it feels like 5 minutes!!! As of this morning I'm weighing in at 264 pounds! I since my first meeting w/my surgeon that's almost 50 pounds!!
So things are finally slowing down enuf to catch up on things.. I took my Dad out for Father's day last weekend. We went to see a sneak preview of the new Disney Movie "Ratattoule" (sp??) My Dad loves the cartoons now! And I love that the thing he wants for father's day is to go see a cute movie!! Next weekend my brother has a big show back home (central coast of CA) I'm driving down to see it. He's played this club before, but this time he was bumped to the headlining act! I'm so extremely proud of him. His friend made a video of him and put it on You tube! You can go to you tube and search "Malo Culo My Van" and see his video! He's the lead singer.
And, since he'll never come here, I can report that after the show on Friday night his girlfriend is going to surprise him with a cake and a big Happy Birthday from all his friends, since it's his birthday on Sunday! 
My mom and her are having a cake made w/a picture of him on it!! WOW! Longest blog ever!!!! I've been storing it up!!! I hope that everyone is great and I can't wait to hear updates!!
xoxo,
Kelly
