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 Hi everyone! Been a little MIA for a little while! Sorry! I am officially 96lbs down!  I am almost at 100 lbs lost in about 9 months! Hopefully I will be there by this week! I am about 23 lbs till onderland. That will be a HUGE acomplishment for me. I think I should push myself to get their faster like exercise more to get to that goal and reward myself with a nice handbag or shoes! Lol Again no regrets at all! I turned 30 last week and I feel Great! I feel sexy and more confident than ever before! The self confidence just sneaks up on you like POW! I find it hard still to get my water and protein in! I have noticed that snack foods such as chips and stuff is the Devil! Lol just have to stay focused! I am able to eat a little more than I was at about 3/4 months out. But again it is about your food choices and you have to fight head hunger! Lol not to say that I don't slip every once in awhile because I do. Well everyone take care! Xoxoxox

Sorry guys I have not checked in in awhile. I have been a little busy. I am officially 7 months out from surgery and I am feeling great! I am down 83 lbs! I am starting to get really excited! No regrets at all. This has been the best decision I have made about my helath.  I am anxious now to get plastics so hopefully around about this time next year I will be getting that tummy tuck and breast augmentation.  I am still having trouble getting in all the fluids.  I always seem to not lose any weight when I am on my monthly! UGH! Well hope all is well with everyone.


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Well I am about 5 months out and feeling GREAT! I have lost about 73 lbs! I have about 63 to go and  I would like to get there by my birthday which is in May. I still have no regrets what so ever. It is still an adjustment to get used to your new tummy. There have been a few NSV that I have had that I have gotten excited about! I can shop at Victoria's Secret for bras and underwear and that was a HUGE acomplishment for me.  I am still in the mind set of trying on clothes that are too big for me or tend to get the larger size first but I think that will be something that I will have to get used to. Loose skin is becoming horrible but I hope to try and look into plastic surgery maybe next year or so. Hope to check back in soon! 




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Well tomorrow marks my 4 month post op for my surgery and today I weighed in at 256 this morning! That makes a total loss of 63 lbs from my surgey weight, and 79 lbs from my highest weight, I am starting to get super excited about my weight loss I am almost where I want to be, Everything is starting to go down south like my boobies and my tummy  but I expected that. I would like to get plastics but hopefully my insurance company will pay for it if it is medically neccessary. I still am not able to get all of my protein in and water. I drink Crystal Light. I like SOBE water also. I have not really been exercising because I am having problems out of my hip! I was reading that after a significant amount of weight loss your hips tend to get knocked out of line. I do not know how true that is. I went and had a MRI done and I am waiting to go to the doctor's to get the results. But overall I am feeling pretty  good. I am still a little tired like my energy is like BLA H BLAH!  I take the B12 and my vitamins but I am still tired. I have been pretty much been eating everything it is not as much as before. There has not been something that I am not able to eat now that I was eating before like bread or eggs, which I guess is a good thing. Thanksgiving I was a little worried about me falling off track but I actually ate a little bit of everything and still loss weight. Well again no regrets at all and I wish everyone that is thinking about having the surgery or in the process of going through with it to do so, You will be happy wth the results.  

 Well I am officallly 3 months post op today! I weigh in ACCORDING to MY SCALE 267! That is a total loss of 52 lbs! And a total of 68 lbs from my highest weight! I am starting to get a little excited now! I cannot tell that I have lost weight but a lot of people are starting to notice. My clothes are getting loose. I am about a size 18! I can get a size 16 up but cannot button them yet. I seem to have been losing up top and not much at the bottom yet. I am still having a hard time getting the protein in. I just purchased unflavored protein so now there should be no excuse why I cannot get it in now. I was having a hard timr finding protein that I actually liked. Overall I am starting to be happy with myself except the fact that everything is going down south! Hahahahahahaha! Loose skin my boobies are smaller and i am starting to get some back pain. In due time hopefully I will be where I want to be and then start looking into plastic surgery! Yay!

Well I am coming up on my 10th week post op and I have lost about 42 lbs! I am happy about that however my surgeon felt as though I should have lost more weight in 2 months. I am just now getting myself on a eating schedule I had a hard time to get use to eating every 3 hrs or so but now I have my lovely phone to remind me to eat. I have been exercising about 3 times a week between strength training and the treadmill and the elyptical machine overall I think that I am doing well, I even stepped up the amount of time that I am on the 2 machines, I used to could only do about 5 min on the elyptical machine and I have upped that to about 15 min. My thighs and legs have been hurting but I guess that means that something is working! lol 

I am a month out and have lost about 25 lbs. For some reason I think that I should have lost more than that. The Dr's scale says that I weigh 296,but my scale at home says 290. I like to go off what my scale says that I weigh. But I think that I may not have lost as much as I would like because I am not getting enough protein in. I have a hard time keeping up with a schedule. My timing is off as far as eating. I work at night so it is hard for me to adjust.  I have a hard time getting in the protein shakes because I have to aquire a taste for them. I went to The Vitamin Shoppe today and picked up a bottle of Protein Blitz, fruit punch flavored.  It has 30g of protein. I think that I may try them but they are a litte pricey. They are about $30.00 for 12 0f them.  I also saw some pocket protein liquid thingy's that I may try also.  They are like $45.00 for about 12. Well I think that I have vented enough for the day. My Dr wants me to lose 10 lbs in one month I hope to acheive this goal!

Well I was sleeved on Monday and surprisingly I am doing well. I went into this thinking that the pain was not going to be that bad, and it wasn't. I was soooooooo excited about that. I am pain tolerant so that is a plus for me too. I have not had a AH HA monent that I sometimes read on here that people post about OMG what and why did I do this to myself. I am not crying and getting upset about food commercials (even though they are playing them what seems like on purpose. I also was not a bit aggitated when my gf friend came to visit me and had a shrimp salad sanwich and asked me if I mind that she ate in front of me. I told her I did not mind which I i honestly didn't. I appreiated it even more her asking me was it ok to eat in front of me. I am so far having good thoughts and that is the weight loss. I so looking forward to the day that the pounds start to drop. So that is my update for everyone.

Well I was approved today! I have Aetna insurance and the paperwork was submitted on Friday I got a approval within 4 days! I actually worried the insurance company like I would call everyday to get an update! I am excited to start this journey! I am ready to a vibrant,healthy SEXY HOT MAMA! I am also a big baby when it comes to the unknown! I means as far as surgery is concerned. I have had surgery before and I always get all scared about being put to sleep. I will gert over it. I just hope that my recovery period is nice and smooth. I am going to try to offer some words of encouragement to others that are currently on the journey to getting approved and the process itself. Do not give up! I had given up before when I missed the supervised diet and I had to start all over again. I was frusterated and I felt that I could do this on my own. I was wrong. It would continue to become a no win battle with trying to lose weight on my own. I have come to terms that I could not do it on my own and that this is not the easy way out. This is simply a tool to assist me on how much I eat. I am not one of the those sweet eaters. And it was never the problem of what I ate it was just how much of it I ate.  I know that on August 8th is the start of a NEW me and I am ready to take control of my health so that I can enjoy my life and not be concerned about my self image any longer.

Well today I go see my PCP for the last time for the documentation for the supervised diet.  So either today or tomorrow the paperwork will be submitted to Aetna and I just have to wait for their blessing. I saw the surgeon on Friday to update my surgery type to the sleeve, And he was telling me that I do not have to do a pre op diet which is a relief to hear. Now all I have to do is sit back and wait which I hope does not be a long wait. This has been a long journey and I am sooooo anxious and will keep everyone updated.