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I just found this picture from April 09. I cant believe I was that big. WOW. I have to find a current picture

So today I am 5 months out. I am slowly recovering from my leg bypass and I have lost 39 pounds.
I am a slow loser I have come to terms with the fact that I do not lose like most people, I have come to terms that I am way behind the rest, this is okay.

Today I am overweight not obese so things are getting better little by little. This month I have lost 7 pounds I am very happy with this. I did not work out all of November because I have been home recuperating. I am cut up all over the stomach and leg I look like I went to war. 

All this is okay because I have an A1C of 5.9, I cannot remember numbers like that ever. I am weighing 163. I don't remember seeing that in the scale for years. The last I remember was 168. I am 5 pounds away from my half way goal.

The only thing I would do differently about this year would be that I would have complained about my leg pain in May to the doctor. This way I would have not had the leg bypass. If I would have gotten the leg fixed right away I would have been able to work out from the beginning and maybe my weight loss would have been quicker but then again everything is going well. Life has it ups and down and one has to learn on how to deal with them.

No pictures this month cause one side of the stomach looks bigger than the other side. I am waiting for the swelling to go down to post some pictures. BTW today I bought a dress at Banana Rep and it was M. The dress was knit but still an M?

Date	Weight (lbs)	BMI	Lost
6/29/2009	202	38.1
7/24/2009	182	33.3	-20
8/31/2009	179	32.7	-3
9/28/2009	173	31.6	-6
10/29/2009	170	31.1	-3
11/28/2009	163	29.8	-7
			-39

So here is the scoop. I went in for leg bypass on Wednesday November 4th. The operation took 6 hours not three and I have the arteries of a 2 year old. Yep I am 35 and have tiny, small, minuscule, itty bitty arteries.  This took my surgery longer. I was released though in 2 days. No one ever has been released so early from a leg bypass in 2 days the Vascular Team was very impressed and could not believe it... Hell Yeah!!!

So now for the other news. I must keep my cholesterol levels at almost non existent. Only my good cholesterol must be high. This will prevent me from other heart stents and possible leg bypasses. So here comes the vegan diet. I think I am going to have to drink two shakes everyday of protein, maybe fish once a week and legumes for the rest of meals.

I need to find a vegetarian WSL patient to give me tips.

I gained 5 pounds of liquid from all the IV sucks ass. But I have lost one so things are looking down.

This is it for now. I hope is well. I can't believe it I am alive and kicking!!!

I went to Vascular Surgeon today. I have my date... yeah. I get my bypass on Nov 4th. I am so excited. You would think that I was getting the VSG and that I have been waiting all this time. Since I was self-pay there was no excitement it was a fact done no questions. But this is great. I am having major surgery but by the time I am done I will be able to work out fully

They will not take a vein from the stomach but a graph it looks like a milkshake straw but soft. It is white and bendable (sp?). I will be 5 days in the hospital and 2 weeks at home. I will have to get short term disability. I am so glad that I am getting it done. After the stent try and failure I feel like this it. I get my cardio check up on the 22nd of Oct then it is all good to go.

On another note the 30 day challenge is pain in ones ass. I am doing it but it is so damn hard. It is hard to check in - check out every day. I feel bad if I don't do one thing or if I did the wrong thing. I feel like I let my team down or something like that. I would never be able to be in a weight loss contest with another person because they would kill me since I am not very good at it. I have lost 2.6 pounds but I think I gained one today. Even with all my complaining I want to thank Cindy for creating the challenge.

So Cindy invited us to a challenge lose x amount of weight and 10 things that will help you get there.
Silly me decided to do it. I never join anything because I never finish anything. I am a procrastinator at heart. So now I am accountable for this and I have 10 people who are going to be on my ass for not meeting my 10 things.

The 10 things are listed in dos and donts.
Do's:
Work out 5 times a week for 30 mins.
Drink one protein shake and meet 65 gr of protein
Drink 64 or more oz of water
Check blood sugar 3 times a day
Track my food
Eat 3 meals and 2 snack a day

Dont's:
Drink liquids during meal
Eat simple carbs
Forget medicines specially insulin
Eat out more than 4 meals a week
Don't drink coffee

They are not hard to do with the exception of work out but the fact that I have to let them know what I am doing or not doing is stressful no me. Okay so I have to lose 10 pounds by Nov 8th. I have not been able to this since my first month after surgery I am going to have to work my ass off or drink my shakes without milk. YUCK YUCK

I am in the middle this was taken in April 09 for Easter week. I think I was about 200 here. I had just had my second stent put in about 2 weeks before.

I don't know how to paste a pictures from my album on OH but I can now see the weight loss. It is amazing. Maybe when I go down to my mama's this weekend I can add another body picture.

Date	Weight	BMI	Waist	Neck	Arm	Chest	Hip	Thigh	Calf
6/17/2009	202	38
7/5/2009	197	37.2	46	14	10	45	44	25	15
7/28/2009	182	34.4	40	14	10	44	43	22	14
8/27/2009	180	34	39	14	10	44	42	20	14
9/28/2009	173	32.7	38	13	10	44	40	20	14
3 Months	29	5.3	8	1	0	1	4	5	1

So in 3 months I have lost 29 pounds 20 inches from body and have dropped my BMI by 5.3 points. I am very happy with the results. My result is slower than most, unfortunately I cannot exercise since I have bad leg. More on that to come.

When I started this journey I was wearing size 16/20 pants and some shirts 18/22 all of my clothes came from Lane Bryant. I felt fat, short, and miserable to name a few. I was sicker than I have ever been in my life. I did not think I was going to make it to 36 to tell you the truth. Today it is a different day. I am  not bursting with energy but I feel better. I don't need to take nap all the time or want to take naps. I still have my nap on Sundays because this is my Hispanic thing to do. Sunday afternoon naps are part of my culture.

This month I lost 7 pounds. I am very happy with this. Last month it was only 2 I was deflated in spirits to say the least.  I have noticed that at work I want to eat more than when I am hope for the day. This is strange since I do nothing at home and at work I am mostly busy. I have to eat better snacks. I have been eating granola bars which are not really good. High in carbs, high in sugar and calories what is the points?

This past weekend I ate more vegetables and I lost 3 pounds maybe I should add more veggies to my diet. I am getting about 800-1000 calories. Since I don't exercise I am wondering if I should lower it.

So now to the leg. So I went in for my leg stent on Sept 23rd and came back depressed, upset, inconsolable, and black and blue. Where to start?

The blockage is 100% and a stent cannot be put in that area because the leg would eventually break it. So get this I have to get a bypass yep you read right a bypass in my leg. They are going to get a vein from my stomach and bypass it to the leg. It is a 3 hour operation and I have to stay in a military hospital for 3 days ooh the horror.

So after the doctor tells me that he cannot put a stent in, he tells me this procedure. I thought we was going to go in and do it right there but because it is military and they only have the paperwork for a stent and not a bypass they did not do it.

So that is my new sad case. So I have decided that in the meantime I am going to take swimming classes. I can't walk or do any aerobics then swimming maybe the ticket.

If I have survived 11 years of diabetes, heart attack with 3 different stents procedures and a gastric sleeve then I can sure a hell take a leg bypass right? I hope.

Date	Weight (lbs)	BMI
4/23/2009	198	37.4
5/5/2009	200	37.8
6/29/2009	202	38.1
7/24/2009	182	34.4
8/27/2009	180	34

My bad so I lost 2 pounds from July to August.

I have nothing to say. I have not lost anything in the past 4 weeks. I gained 5 pounds in 3 days and it took me 2 weeks to lose. I had a melt down at the beginning of the week because I had not lost weight. I guess I am nothing right now, no emotions because the meltdown was recent. If I would have seen this number 180 today for the first time. I would be upset.

I feel like I spent my savings to lose 22 pounds and lower my cholesterol and A1C. Besides that I have nothing to show weight wise this month.

I am not upset I am just over this shit. Really done with it. I don't even care what I eat. I obsess about food now and before I didn't. I am constantly pissed because I get on the scale and the scale does not move.  One minute I am glad I had surgery and another I question it. Lately questioning it more.

So I guess that I am sad not nothing. I am sad that after all this crap that I went through I am not seeing results. Yeah my labs are getting better but it is not something I see. It is in the inside not on the outside. On the outside all I have to show is 5 scars and huge bruises all over my body because now after surgery my skin is even more sensetive than before. I look like someone beats the shit out me in my arms and stomach from the insulin injections.

The part that upsets me most is that I had said I am getting WLS for the diabetes if I don't lose that much weight I am going to be fine. Well I am not losing that much weight and I am not fine. It pisses me off that my slow weight loss is getting me upset.

I took the advice from people in the forum I posted my meals, ate more drank more water, split my protein and nothing not even an ounce moved from the scale.

I am blah....maybe next month it will be better. I am seriously thinking of ending my blog days. I come here to track my weight loss, to track my food to see how everyone is doing but it is just getting harder.

The world outside OH does not understand that a 1 pound weight gain does havoc to your head. The oldies in OH have seen it and give you advice and some tell, "you did not gain the weight in two months" but I gained  35 pounds in two months.  As soon as I was put on insulin. At least let me loose those.

I am disappointed. Maybe it is true what they said about my doctor she makes big sleeves. I am so screwed up that I am starting to believe those comments I heard when I was researching doctors. Well it is too late now. What is done is done and now I have don't have any money to go get a smaller sleeve or revision or what ever the possibilities maybe.  I don't even have the money to get an x-ray to see how big or small this banana is.

So my 2 months update in nutshell. No weight loss and feel down.

Date	Waist Size (in)	Neck Size (in)	Forearm Size (in)	Chest Size (in)	Hip Size (in)	Thigh Size (in)	Calf Size (in)
7/5/2009	46	14	10	45	44	25	15
7/28/2009	40	14	10	44	43	22	14
8/27/2009	39	14	10	44	42	20	14
	7	0	0	1	2	5	1

So here are my 2 months measurements not much since last month but clothes fit so much better
This month I lost 4 inches. My thighes are smaller. I had put 20" as a goal but I think these bad boys are going to get smaller.
Total inches in two months 16.

I will add my weight tomorrow which is exactly 2 months Post-Op