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So as of tomorrow I'm 4 weeks out. I go back to work tonight. Bah to work, but I feel great. I'm keeping down food really good, getting my liquids in.
As for protein shakes........ I so can't do the kind I was using. I ended up switching to muscle milk. It's much more expensive, but so worth it. It goes down amazingly. Thanks to the boyfriend I'm hooked.
I'm getting kind of bored with my food. I need to find ways to mix it up. Though I do have to say......... I'm craving a pickle! OMGOSH! lol.
After next week I'm sure I'll move to a new stage of my diet. So this too will be good. I do miss my veggies.
Life's doing good. As of today I weigh 246.
I'm so ready to be 230!

So this morning I officially got sick! So not cool. It pretty much felt like I was going to die. I'm assuming it's because I ate to fast. The barfing lasted at minimum of a half hour. Though, I felt much better once all was said and done. Ugh, I so never want to do that again! It was horrible!

So I'm officially two weeks post op! Woo hoo. This week I lost 6 lbs. Nothing new really going on! I'm just happy I lost more than a few lbs this week! Workout wise I'm doing great! I'm getting in my protein amazingly, and water is doing good!
Nothing new! But I'm happy!:)

So I'm officially a week and one day post op. When I got home from the hospital i weighed 277, today I'm 258. Which is awesome! I can eat tuna fish, string cheese, eggs, cottage cheese! Woo hoo! By being able to eat those it's making it much easier to get my protein in! I know everyone says it, but I hate my protein shakes! YUCK! I was barely able to tollerate sweet tasting things prior to surgery, let alone after. It's sooo hard. I have to choke it down, but I need the protein so I'll continue to do it. It was so much easier prior to surgery cuz I could at least chug it down. Now I have to sip sip sip. I'm finding it hard to get in all my liquids in one day, but it's something I have to work on. So it'll get better! I know I can do it!

Today I went to the post office and they needed my id. I gave it to the guy. He looked at it then looked at me, looked at it again, looked at me, and did this one more time, then said well i spose thats you. Since that picture was taken I've lost 40 lbs! I'm so happy! So so very happy!

I'll keep everyone updated!
Hope everyone else is doing well. I feel great!!!!

So I'm home from the hospital. The first thing I HAVE to do when I get home is weigh myself. I gained 10lns water weight. BAH, I know it was expected. I feel so bloated right now as well! I'm happy to be home, don't think I'm not! So happy to be home! My dogs are happy to see me, but quite mad that I wont let them on me!
My hospital experiance overall wasn't to bad.I'm a little scared. Hoping that I will know when I'm full, and when I'm not. Lets hope all works out great! I'll keep everyone updated!

I had surgery on Tuesday, it is officially Thursday! Which means that Ive spent 2 nights and 3 days in the hospital so far. There has been talk about me going home, but they do like their patients to stay for 3 nights and 4 days. I make it sound like a vacation. It's so not a vacation! I'm feeling pretty good today. I had my catheter taken out yesterday, got my drain cleaned, got to put on pants, and drink 1 oz of liquids every hour. Currently I am on 4 oz of liquids every hour, which I am finding hard to do. I have no interest in food, but suprisingly I love liquids, just not the ones they are giving me! Juvene!? It comes in eathier orange or grape flavored. YUCKY! EEK!
Other than that I'm feeling good. A lil tired, but I did however get 12 hours of sleep last night. It was amazing!
Anyway, that's my update. I might do a video update on youtube soon!
Talk to you all later!

I posted a hospital stay video
http://www.youtube.com/user/AmburReichard?feature=mhum

Things are going ok. Ive walked around once already, ive been sleeping and being up for a bit! y throat and mouth is so dry!
OMGOSH!
Other than that thats all I can really type
check out my video!

oh yeah and i walked 5 hrs after surgery! woohoo go me

Well Everyone! Today is finally the day! My S-day! It's 4:15 am, and my surgery is at 11 am! 6 more hours to go and I will officially be on the loosers bench! w00t w00t!

After a long process and jumping through the hoops I am finally here!
Am I scared? Nervous? Excited?
Probably a little of both

But I'm more READY than anything else!

This is something I've worked hard to get at, and I've been learning healthy things along the way!

Yay to Surgery day!

Ugh, so it's day 8 of my pre-op liquid diet. I can't eat! Yesterday I tried to eat some soup, but it just doesn't taste good, nothing is settling on my stomach right now. I don't really think it's nevers rather than just being sick of the same taste! I'm so ready for some cottage cheese and tuna fish, you have NO idea! I can handle the protein shake, but theres only so much sweet tasting stuff that I can eat! I know I shouldn't be complaining, considering everything is so close to starting!

I however woke up at 5 am this morning, and went to walmart and bought a digital food scale. It's rather nice, it even calculates calories, fat, salt, fiber,carbs, etc.
I also bought some measuring cups (1/4 cup, 1/3 cup, 1/2 cup etc), and a strainer. I pretty much feel like all the neccisary things that I need I have. I have a blender, food processer, also a while ago I bought the toddlers first year toss and go set, which includes small cups, bowls, tuppeware, along with all the other stuff I talked about earlier.

I have the bag packed for the hospital stay. I'll be bringing my laptop if it's at all possible for me to get online, some movies, my book.(weight loss surgery for dummies). I don't know what to expect there, and I'm sure everyones hospital experiance  is different. So prepair for it all right?!

Today I'm just hanging out. I really have nothing much to do today. I've been cleaning a lot, I'll probably do more again today. I just want to make sure everything is ready for me for when I do have surgery. I'm sooo bored! I hung out with friends all day yesterday, but I'm so ready for this. Rawr, me and my patience.

If I could I would so just sleep till the day, haha.
UGH!
OK, that's all I got.

Later OH

Hey All,
For those who are interested I've been doing a video blog on YouTube.
So if your interested in watching it here is the link

http://www.youtube.com/user/AmburReichard?feature=mhum