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I had my 6 month checkup with my surgeon today and he said I was making excellent progress. Im 33 lbs from his goal weight of 170 however my personal goal is 135-140 mainly cause where im a short person. He couldn't believe how much healthier I looked and he was even talking plastics since I already have some loose skin already. Im hoping I can get a job with better insurance after being out of the workforce for 2 years. Since I finally can exercise im taking it slow and doing my first 5k walk in 2 years as well.

Well today is labor day and we had our annual church picnic and we all  know how good the cooking is at church functions. I made sugar free brownies with nuts and added a scoop of Advocare Muscle Gain chocolate protein powder and you couldn't taste the difference at all. I even put them in little cupcake holders for portion control and easy eating. We had a bouncy house at the church for the kids and they let the adults go in it as well and Guess what this chic went in it and had a ball. Last time I done it was 2 yrs ago post open heart surgery and I could barely stand up in it. Now I could stand up and bounce away. I had so much fun and I even had someone take video for me. The sleeve surgery has changed my life for the better as im healthier and in fact after being off work for almost 3 years due to my heart issues,  I am now putting in job applications to go back to work as a Pharmacy tech which im nationally licensed to do. I figure it will be harder since I haven't been in the field for almost 3 years but im pushing. I graduated from physical therapy last Friday and my knees feel 110% better as  I can walk and climb stairs with no issues. It is something as I thought with the 60 lbs I lost when I started therapy would have made a difference in my knee pain but didn't. Turned out cause I had increased my exercise I ended up getting tendonitis in both knees. The therapy was brutal but as long as I have my mobility back im fine. Tomarrow is my 6 mo post op checkup with my surgeon and we shall see if he thinks im doing ok.

I had gastric sleeve surgery on 2-26-14 in Charleston, WV and its been quite a ride. First of all I was in the hospital 6 days due to kidney function issues with one of my meds I was on for Congestive heart failure but that was resolved and they took  my off Lasix which was the culprit to begin with. As of March 2014 Im insulin free now and only taking metformin once a day and my thyroid meds have been reduced. My heart and blood pressure meds have not been decreased due to they are using the meds to treat my Congestive heart faiure as well so my cardiologist isn't messing with those at this time. My asthma meds have been cut in half and im feeling better than I have been. I am finishing physical therapy tomarrow which im glad of that. I was in 20 sessions of physical therapy due to tendonitis in both knees due to my increasing exercise. Im still struggling with my depression and keeping myself isolated from the rest of the world still and they have changed my antidepressant along with the continuation of my therapy that I started pre op. Right now exercise is a stuggle for me and im having to force myself to get out of the house to exercise and this WV humidity isn't helping matters as I cant tolerate heat and humidity due to my asthma and my heart failure. Im in process on attempting to go back to work as a Certifited pharmacy tech and 2.5 yrs of not working. So far ive lost 80 lbs and am so close to onederland it isn't funny( im 5 lbs away). My journey has been quite a ride however it has been worth every blood, sweat and tear that ive been through.

After all the insurance and weight loss drama from July 2013-Dec 2013. Im in the sleeved club now I got sleeved on 2-26-14. Let me get you up to speed since my last entry. I did my 6 month weight loss program which my insurance requires. Turns out the weight loss center that I went through had never worked with BCBS through Kroger union before and they require a BMI of 50. It came down to my 6 month and it turned out I lost too much weight so I had to gain 6 lbs to be approved for surgery. Because of that I had to come up with a higher copay due to deductible started again. So the fun part of coming up with the money started but I did it. My surgery was ok until I started having kidney function issues and had to bring in a specialist. I ended up staying 4 extra days to get my levels where they should be and it turned out it was the medicine I was on for my Congestive Heart Failure. As for my diabetes Im off Humulin N for now and just on my sliding scale Novolog mealtime and my Metformin pills for now along with my seizure and blood pressure meds. im having a hard time getting my protein in now that im home and now im in phase 3 and having to time my meals its much harder cause im normally used to eating twice a day and that's it.

My name is Christina and im 38 soon to be 39 next wed. ive been overweight since i was a child and my weight has been growing and growing. My weight escelated once my father died when i was 11 yrs old and my life wasnt the same since then. I was bullied during my teenage years and tried to live a nornal life as possible but I missed out on so many things and opportunities cause of my weight. I pretty much spent my teenage years bullied and depressed cause of my weight. Fast forward to college i wasnt bullied and was a sorority girl but becuase of my weight i didnt date much in high school or college and the guys who would have anything to do with me was usually the trashy douchebag type that would tell me anything i wanted to hear, abusive etc.I ended up giving up my college education over a abusive guy cause i felt cause of my weight i wasnt capeable of having anyone in my life that treated me good. I was  with this guy for 5 yrs and i had the guts to leave him. Then a yr later another guy came into my life. Everything was hunky dory till we got married then he felt like the world owed him something and he felt like he didnt have to work. Needless to say we spent our first wedding anniverary in a homeless shelter  and got kicked out cause he was accused of hitting on the women there. Well we did move and i got laid off from my job several yrs later and I got another job and went to school to better myself and come to find out he was cheating on me with a married neighbor lasted for a yr. I ended up moving to where i currently live to work as a pharmacy tech well the hubby had to follow me to my job he worked then he got fired due to no showing and we ended up in homeless shelters 2 more times and he was kicked out cause he refused to give his money to them for rent. While in the shelter i found out he was hanging out with some pretty rough people drugheads mainy. We moved into another place and found out he stole money from my bank account that was for the rent and went gambleing and that same time found out he was cheating on me with a prostitute. It didnt hit me until he picked me up from work with the prostitute in the car with him. Needless to say this guy is now my ex husband.   4 yrs later i met my current husband through a co worker of his which was a friend of mine. In 2009 we married and are still married. Because of my weight of course ive had health issues like high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, high cholesterol, asthma. In 2010 i had my first heart attack at age 35 and my heart condition was causing me difficulties in my job which people noticed. in 2012 I had open heart surgery and that is when things started really falling apart. Right before my heart surgery i found out my job that i had worked for 11 yrs were trying to find a way to get rid of me due to my medical issues well I was off for 4 mos. I rehabbed and right before i was scheduled to go back to work i went into congestive heart failure and had my 2 nd heart attack at age 38. It was at that time i was told I was terminated from my job. I was devistated as it wasnt my fault . Ive been on my weight loss surgery for several yrs and every time i ended up halfway through the process either i was in the hospital for something totally unrealted or i gave up. I started my weight loss journey after my heart surgery however once i lost my job i had to quit my journey for my weight loss surgery due to no insurance. And at that time my husbands insurance didnt cover weight loss surgery.So This yr i realized ill be turning 40 yrs old next  yr and ive missed out on my teen yrs, my 20s and most of my 30s cause of my weight and I want to live to be able to ride rollar coasters again, wear decent clothing and be happy for the first time in almost 40 years. i restarted my journey for surgery in july 2013 originally planning the gastric bypass. When i went to my cardiologist in aug she wanted me to do the lap band due to my heart history. this wasnt something i wanted due to the high failure rate of the band. So i had a discussion with my surgeon and he recommended the gastric sleeve and that is what i decided due to my mom and i have a friend that she was very successful with the sleeve and the fact i wouldnt have to go through the trouble of changing my medications around.  Its a constannt stuggle as im on this journey but i know it will be worth it in the end. See ya'll next month