Stinkerbelle
3.5 months
Dec 28, 2006
Big Loss In November
Nov 26, 2006
November 8th - 2 month Check Up
Nov 08, 2006
WEEK FIVE
Oct 10, 2006
10/11/2006
Week 5 ~ Check up @ Doc & 1st support group meeting.
So I saw the doc today for my 5 week check up. She thinks I'm doing great. I got cleared for water areobics and I'm really excited about that. She told me to only weigh once a week instead of the every day sometimes 2 times thing I've been doing the last 2 weeks I've been stalled.
I know I'm in a stall and I am prepared for it and even did what I needed to do to get unstalled... and for the most part I am not freaked out at all about the stall.. but I'm really excited for when it's over so I can get to loosing again. I'm down 40 lbs but that's what I was down @ 3 weeks ... I think I even gained 9 lbs somewhere but I've lost 3 of them in the last week... maybe that means I'm unstalled.
I just really feel great. I don't feel like a fat person anymore.. even though I still look like one.. and people who see me I want to say... quit looking at me because you still think I'm fat.. look.. I'm gonna not be pretty soon... My hubbs says peeps look at me because I'm just damn adorable.. See why I'm crazy about him!!!!!! I then told him I couldn't wait for people to quit staring at me... to which he said.. you think they are staring now.. you just wait until this time next year... you will have to pass out bibs for their drool.. I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM I LOVE HIM!!!!
I went to my very first support group tonight... IT ROCKED! it was soo cool to be in a room full of peeps who had the same thing as me. We talked about how the next 4 months is the eating season and we talked about how we can change and deal with the up comming seasons. I feel pretty good about going into this holiday season.. mainly because I have no desire to eat anything I'm not supposed to... now that doesn't mean it doesn't sound or look good.. it just means that I am in no way shape or form tempted. I was thinking about calling the holidays off but I think I will just make some minor changes... no more cooking for 2 days straight... I think I will cook a turkey and make some great vegetable side dishes and maybe even those cauliflower "mashed potatoes"... and I will find some kind of a sugar free sweet to nibble... too bad they didnt make pumpkin flavored jello... that with a lil dab of "legal" cool whip.. yummm.
This year for halloween I'm choosing to not pass out candy. I bought a bunch of halloween pencils. Now the only problem is I have 4 kids who will bring a but load of it home... but I'm really not interested in sweets at all so what do I really care? I remember taking the kids out with pillowcases and they would be gone for 3 - 4 hours and come back with those things almost full. We had candy for a year!.. well.. until spring anyway! LOL My 2 older ones don't want to trick or treat.. my 10 and 8 year old do... that will change in a couple years and I think I'm just going to enjoy that they are still young enough to want to act their age! :D
I'm travelling out of town tomorrow for the first time since my surgery. I'm a smidge nervous about this. Normally I would stay all night and eat out all my meals. This time I opted to leave really early and drive back home tomorrow night after the work is done. It's about a 3 hour drive so it's not bad.. and I just feel safer being home. I'm going to take a big cooler full of stuff... bottled water, protein drinks, meat and cheese.. some devilled eggs. and of course the damn vitamins!
3 gals.. including me fessed up at the support group meeting tonight that we had been sipping with our meals. My "excuse" was that I was scared something would get stuck... to which our instructor said that if something does get stuck... water isn't going to help it go down.. the water will just come back up. I know this is a no no.... tonight I commited to quick doing it. I'm not doing it again!
Alright.. I'm done babbeling... For those of you brave enough and not bored out of your mind to stick with me for this long.. SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOCH!!!!
XOXOXO
Barb
WEEK FOUR ~ STALL AND GAIN
Oct 02, 2006
10/03/2006
WEEK 4 ~ MAJOR STALL AND WEIGHT GAIN.
I can only assume that I am expierencing my first stall. That I can handle... but what is up with the weight gain. 9 lbs in a week? Honestly I don't feel it and my clothes are getting more loose and more loose every day so I don't understand? I'm going to weight out the 2-3 week stall that most everyone else seems to go thru at this time and see what happens. I feel great so I think I will just settle down and let my body do what it feels it needs to do. I'm not getting in all of my protein so this could be the reason why. I will try to up it and see what happens.
3 WEEKS DOWN... NEXT!
Sep 25, 2006
09/26/2006 ~ 3 Weeks Post Op
2 WEEKS DOWN..... NEXT!
Sep 18, 2006
9/19/2006 ~ 2 Weeks Post Op
DAY 10 ~ BACK TO THE REAL WORLD~
Sep 14, 2006
DAY 9 - NOT GOOD.. NOT GOOD AT ALL!
Sep 13, 2006
09/14/06 Day 9 post op
I thought I was doing so well. Yesturday I didn't drink very much though. Maybe 12 oz of water and then the little bit I got in my soup yesturday. I had a horrible night sleeping. When I got up with the kids this morning I felt kinda funny. A little nauseated. After the kids went to school I got my water bottle and mixed it with some sunrise orange powder crystal light stuff and my glass with ice. I poured some in and started sipping. I probably got in 2 oz. before I started getting really sick to my stomache. I got up and a bowl because I honestly thought I was going to vomit. I put my cell phone on silence because my boss will call me constantly if I don't (I'm on vacation). I fell asleep. A couple hours later my mom in law is knocking on the door and opens it. She brings my daughter in. The school had been trying to contact me because she fell during hurdles in gym this morning and her ankle was really swollen. So grandma left and I pulled my hair back and put a bra on and Emily (DD) and I walked outside to get in the Jeep. The Jeep is my husbands car, he is driving mine this week. We have a 2 car garage and my hubbs parks the jeep on the left side really close to the wall. I couldn't get in the damn door to get the car out. Normally I can but I couldn't twist myself around to get in. I had to go over to the neighbors house and have the neighrbor get the car out for me. Emily and I drove over to the insta care. They x-rayed her ankle and it isn't broken but she really pulled the ligament. So as the doc is leaving he looks over at me and says.. Are you ok? And I just started bawling. I told him I just had GB 9 days ago and I'm just not feeling right today. He said well let's get you checked out. So I got up on the table and they took my blood pressure, temp and heartbeat and all that stuff. He came to the conclusion that I was Dehydrated. He was concerned though because he really didn't know how to treat GB patients so he gave my doc a call. She said to just load me up on fluids and that I should be ok. While my daughter was getting splinted and cruched up they IV'd me 2 bags of liquids and then retook my vitals. I was already feeling so much better.
When Emily and I got home I fixed her some soup and a sammich and I had a little bit of soup also. I have to wait 30 mins after I drink to eat and 90 mins after I eat to drink. It takes me 45 mins to drink 8 oz. Please tell me that it get's easier. When all I do is drink I get in about 40 oz.
Tonight I feel amazing. I cooked dinner for my family. AMAZING HOW A LITTLE WATER CAN MAKE YOU FEEL WORLDS BETTER! SIP SIP SIP
I thought I was doing so well. Yesturday I didn't drink very much though. Maybe 12 oz of water and then the little bit I got in my soup yesturday. I had a horrible night sleeping. When I got up with the kids this morning I felt kinda funny. A little nauseated. After the kids went to school I got my water bottle and mixed it with some sunrise orange powder crystal light stuff and my glass with ice. I poured some in and started sipping. I probably got in 2 oz. before I started getting really sick to my stomache. I got up and a bowl because I honestly thought I was going to vomit. I put my cell phone on silence because my boss will call me constantly if I don't (I'm on vacation). I fell asleep. A couple hours later my mom in law is knocking on the door and opens it. She brings my daughter in. The school had been trying to contact me because she fell during hurdles in gym this morning and her ankle was really swollen. So grandma left and I pulled my hair back and put a bra on and Emily (DD) and I walked outside to get in the Jeep. The Jeep is my husbands car, he is driving mine this week. We have a 2 car garage and my hubbs parks the jeep on the left side really close to the wall. I couldn't get in the damn door to get the car out. Normally I can but I couldn't twist myself around to get in. I had to go over to the neighbors house and have the neighrbor get the car out for me. Emily and I drove over to the insta care. They x-rayed her ankle and it isn't broken but she really pulled the ligament. So as the doc is leaving he looks over at me and says.. Are you ok? And I just started bawling. I told him I just had GB 9 days ago and I'm just not feeling right today. He said well let's get you checked out. So I got up on the table and they took my blood pressure, temp and heartbeat and all that stuff. He came to the conclusion that I was Dehydrated. He was concerned though because he really didn't know how to treat GB patients so he gave my doc a call. She said to just load me up on fluids and that I should be ok. While my daughter was getting splinted and cruched up they IV'd me 2 bags of liquids and then retook my vitals. I was already feeling so much better.
When Emily and I got home I fixed her some soup and a sammich and I had a little bit of soup also. I have to wait 30 mins after I drink to eat and 90 mins after I eat to drink. It takes me 45 mins to drink 8 oz. Please tell me that it get's easier. When all I do is drink I get in about 40 oz.
Tonight I feel amazing. I cooked dinner for my family. AMAZING HOW A LITTLE WATER CAN MAKE YOU FEEL WORLDS BETTER! SIP SIP SIP
WEEK ONE~ OVER.. NEXT!
Sep 12, 2006
09/13/06 Day 8 post op
I get to go for my 1 week check up today. Hubbs took me to the doc and she weighed me. She called me her Star. I've lost 27 lbs! Can you believe that... 27 lbs!!!!!!! Ok.. I'm not so wanting to change my mind now. I can see the loss in my face. My big fat double chin is melting. I didn't get much water in today though. I'm concerned about this. This is an effort. Also I'm only getting in about 30 g of protein. I'm just not hungry.
I get to go for my 1 week check up today. Hubbs took me to the doc and she weighed me. She called me her Star. I've lost 27 lbs! Can you believe that... 27 lbs!!!!!!! Ok.. I'm not so wanting to change my mind now. I can see the loss in my face. My big fat double chin is melting. I didn't get much water in today though. I'm concerned about this. This is an effort. Also I'm only getting in about 30 g of protein. I'm just not hungry.
About Me
Sandy, UT
Location
27.5
BMI
Surgery
09/05/2006
Surgery Date
Oct 06, 2006
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