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A Week Away From 5-Year Surgiversary
Apr 01, 2012
Well, my weight has been fluctuating from 125 to 160. I am about 135 now. One measly week away, and I had a blowout. My ulcer finally blew and made a huge hole along the connection between the pouch and small intestine. Had to have emergency surgery a few days ago.
If my new surgeon's illustration is accurate, my pouch is now half the size it was before. If you think you are nervous on the initial go-around, try doin' this mess. After five years, this is a shocker. I am totally unprepared for this. TOTALLY!!
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If my new surgeon's illustration is accurate, my pouch is now half the size it was before. If you think you are nervous on the initial go-around, try doin' this mess. After five years, this is a shocker. I am totally unprepared for this. TOTALLY!!
March 18, 2008
Mar 18, 2008
149!!!
March 6. 2008
Mar 06, 2008
I've been having some power issues with my notebook cpu for a long time, but I am checking in for a long overdue update.
I weigh 154! BMI of 24.9...holy crap! None too shabby.
I haven't really been having any gastric complications, but the ulcer, which is relatively well under control. Everything is great.
I do have some serious back problems going on. I will be having a microdiscectomy on Monday, the 10th of this month. Hopefully, all will go well and I will be back to work in a few weeks. I had an MRI in Dec 07 that revealed Degenerative disc disease, lumbar herniation, and a displaced nerve root sheath due to forminal stenosis. This surgery will hopefully spare me from the awful sciatic pain I have been having for a coupla months, but I am not at all hopeful for the future. I see in the MRI that a few of my lumbar discs are getting all eroded and mottled. I am only 33. There is gonna be more pain and more surgery in my future for sure.
Mike and I are engaged. Hopefully, we will tie the knot before summer hits. We are working with Pastor Barry right now. Mike is super-happy. I just hope I can be the woman he deserves.
Some areas of my skin are getting paunchy. My stomach really needs a lift, but unless we hit the jackpot, that will never happen. It's not really important anyway. I wouldn't be going around showing people my tummy anyway...too stretchmarky. Chest shrunk down to a B. Oh well. I have not got a thing to complain about. This has been a dream come true.
Can't really think of anything interesting to say, so I am signing out! Adios.
I will definitely get some new pics up here soon. My last pics were 30 pounds ago.
I weigh 154! BMI of 24.9...holy crap! None too shabby.
I haven't really been having any gastric complications, but the ulcer, which is relatively well under control. Everything is great.
I do have some serious back problems going on. I will be having a microdiscectomy on Monday, the 10th of this month. Hopefully, all will go well and I will be back to work in a few weeks. I had an MRI in Dec 07 that revealed Degenerative disc disease, lumbar herniation, and a displaced nerve root sheath due to forminal stenosis. This surgery will hopefully spare me from the awful sciatic pain I have been having for a coupla months, but I am not at all hopeful for the future. I see in the MRI that a few of my lumbar discs are getting all eroded and mottled. I am only 33. There is gonna be more pain and more surgery in my future for sure.
Mike and I are engaged. Hopefully, we will tie the knot before summer hits. We are working with Pastor Barry right now. Mike is super-happy. I just hope I can be the woman he deserves.
Some areas of my skin are getting paunchy. My stomach really needs a lift, but unless we hit the jackpot, that will never happen. It's not really important anyway. I wouldn't be going around showing people my tummy anyway...too stretchmarky. Chest shrunk down to a B. Oh well. I have not got a thing to complain about. This has been a dream come true.
Can't really think of anything interesting to say, so I am signing out! Adios.
I will definitely get some new pics up here soon. My last pics were 30 pounds ago.
December 6, 2007
Dec 06, 2007
This pain thing is starting to not be so funny now. I woke up in agony this morning. It was just GNAWING at my guts like a rat on smack. I was trying to wake up nice and peaceful-like, but I was just rocking and rocking--begging the pain to go away. This is ridiculous. My abdomen was tender...the whole nine yards. I was thinking that this cannot be just hunger. Something is very wrong here! It is so bad that I actually start to feel a little nauseous. (Precisely the moment I want to be desparately shoveling crackers down my throat.)
Anyway, I rocketed myself out of the bed to look for some sort of snack to fill my stomach and bring me some relief. I ate half of a protein bar. The pain subsided. What is this crap??! Is this gonna be my new thing? Am I going to wake up in terrible pain every morning? I am going to have to keep snacks by my bed so I can keep doing my usual snooze button for an hour routine. I will just have to make sure I always have snacks around me. My weight is dropping too. I haven't even moved off of the couch or bed in days and my weight keeps going down everyday. This morning it was 178.2.
Anyway, I rocketed myself out of the bed to look for some sort of snack to fill my stomach and bring me some relief. I ate half of a protein bar. The pain subsided. What is this crap??! Is this gonna be my new thing? Am I going to wake up in terrible pain every morning? I am going to have to keep snacks by my bed so I can keep doing my usual snooze button for an hour routine. I will just have to make sure I always have snacks around me. My weight is dropping too. I haven't even moved off of the couch or bed in days and my weight keeps going down everyday. This morning it was 178.2.
December 5, 2007
Dec 05, 2007
And so it begins. I believe I am beginning to feel hunger PAIN!! I have not felt hunger since before the surgery. I was not even sure what was going on at first. It was a gnawing pain that I could not ignore. I ate a half packet of oatmeal and it went away. Mystery solved. I had it again this morning. Very discomforting. I had a few crackers and it went away again. I guess I haven't been eating so much lately. I just have not been in the mood. So I am slowly feeding my stomach to keep it satiated. Right now I am gnawing on a little cheese. I do not like this. Why is it doing this. I guess it is hard for me to understand the concept of hunger after having been a glutton for so long. I dropped 20 pounds this month. I am not going to let my stomach sabotage me now!! Maybe drinking water will help stave it off. I will have to try that later.
So my weight is at 179.8 this morning. That's over 90 pounds. I have been wearing a pair of size 12 camouflage pants lately and they fit well. I wear some 14 jeans, though and they are creating a major muffin-top. Go figure. I can probably do a 12 dress too now. I tried on a 14 I bought the other day, and i know it could've been a bit smaller.
My BMI is 28 or 29..it depends on the site you go to. I am not obese now..just overweight. I think it is time to hop into the dating scene now. I am ready. Hmmm..how am I supposed to do that?
So my weight is at 179.8 this morning. That's over 90 pounds. I have been wearing a pair of size 12 camouflage pants lately and they fit well. I wear some 14 jeans, though and they are creating a major muffin-top. Go figure. I can probably do a 12 dress too now. I tried on a 14 I bought the other day, and i know it could've been a bit smaller.
My BMI is 28 or 29..it depends on the site you go to. I am not obese now..just overweight. I think it is time to hop into the dating scene now. I am ready. Hmmm..how am I supposed to do that?
November 18, 2007
Nov 18, 2007
My weight is 185! I have been a lot more disciplined this week (after the horrors of halloween...candycandy)If one peruses my chart at the bottom of my blog, one can see that I HAVE LOST OVER 10 POUNDS IN THE LAST TWO WEEK PERIOD. SWEEEEET!
I need to get some new pics up soon.
These are months old, and alot can happen in a short amount of time for a wls-er. I am down thirty pounds from the last pics that I posted on OH. I can't see a big difference,, but I suppose others can.
November 16, 2007
Nov 15, 2007
Yesterday was my 6-Month Surgiversary! Eighty pounds exactly in 6 months. Today I weigh 188.4! I was very naughty during Halloweentime, but I got myself right back on track. I have lost ten pounds in the last two weeks.
I will admit I got back into some bad business regarding food choices for a long clip there. I was not even recording anything I ate because it would've been a horrible realization to see that in living color. I was grazing throughout the day and I wasn't caring about my protein intake or anything. But, for the past week or two, I have been very good. I have been getting in over 50 grams of protein a day and have been seriously limiting the carbs.
For my six-month progress update...
My main goals that I have set for myself are:
1...Eat at least 50 gr of protein a day
2...Exercise at least three times a week
3...Keep my net carbs under my protein intake for the day
4...Calorie intake for the day should be around 700.
My breakfasts consist of a yogurt and a fruit or an egg and a grain. My lunches might be a salad with a serving of cottage cheese for protein or a half egg salad or tuna sandwich...or a lean meat and veg at work if they have it. My dinners are usually a serving of meat with a lean vegetable or salad.
I do not deprive myself of going near a cookie or other snack. If it is a bad snack, I merely sample it and let a friend have the rest. I may have a half of a cookie or maybe even a fifth and I am able to move on from the desire to eat badly. When I snack, I have an apple or half of a nutrition bar or something. Maybe a piece of Pepperidge Farm Carbstyle toast with lite margarine and just a schmear of all-fruit preserves. Sometimes a mini-bag of microwave popcorn.
I mainly drink water at work and Crystal Light at home. I do not meet my water quota of 64 oz everyday. I hardly ever hit that goal. I might hit 48. Yesterday, I would say I probably drank 40 ounces of fluids. I have a glass of diet soda maybe once a week. I think it has been two weeks since I had any soda.
I rarely take my daily supplements. I will definitely make an effort to get back to that. I just really do not ever think of it.
I have been walking/jogging maybe twice a week. I find it so boring. It is only do-able for me if I have someone to do it with. I have been hitting the trails in different parks lately and have really been enjoying that. It is so fun to navigate through the rough trails. You have to really pay attention when you are running on them or you wil get clocked. It is a challenge. I thought the trail around Burr Pond in Torrington was awesome!
I still have yet to attend one of the support groups that my surgeon has every month. I just don't have an interest in participating in that and meeting other people who are going through what I am going through. I just don't feel a need for this support and interaction. I have gotten all the answers I have needed form ObesityHelp. I have learned to accept the stalls in weight loss and the hair loss, etc.
Speaking of hair loss...my hair was falling out for about three months and then it stopped. It looks pretty thin on top, but it is nothing that has really affected my life. It's sparse enough that I can see the gleam of the sunlight reflecting off the top of my head if I check myself in a mirror, but nothing too traumatizing.
I have been feeling the cold more than most people lately, I have found. My hands are usually ice cold. At work, I seem to be the only one with this problem. I never had it before, either. I guess my body will take time to adjust to it's loss of insulation. The cold hand thing is very troublesome, though. Sometimes, at work, my hands are so cold and numb that I have trouble palpating a vein and performing my job.
All in all, this surgery has been a great success and I have no complaints. I have had no complications. I have lost over 60% of my excess weight in six months. My randomly-set personal goal is 160. That is less than 30 pounds away. My BMI is 30 right now. I started at a 42 or a 43. Right now, I am still OBESE, but in less than ten pounds lost, I will be only OVERWEIGHT! When I get below 180, I believe I can claim that distinction. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
I will admit I got back into some bad business regarding food choices for a long clip there. I was not even recording anything I ate because it would've been a horrible realization to see that in living color. I was grazing throughout the day and I wasn't caring about my protein intake or anything. But, for the past week or two, I have been very good. I have been getting in over 50 grams of protein a day and have been seriously limiting the carbs.
For my six-month progress update...
My main goals that I have set for myself are:
1...Eat at least 50 gr of protein a day
2...Exercise at least three times a week
3...Keep my net carbs under my protein intake for the day
4...Calorie intake for the day should be around 700.
My breakfasts consist of a yogurt and a fruit or an egg and a grain. My lunches might be a salad with a serving of cottage cheese for protein or a half egg salad or tuna sandwich...or a lean meat and veg at work if they have it. My dinners are usually a serving of meat with a lean vegetable or salad.
I do not deprive myself of going near a cookie or other snack. If it is a bad snack, I merely sample it and let a friend have the rest. I may have a half of a cookie or maybe even a fifth and I am able to move on from the desire to eat badly. When I snack, I have an apple or half of a nutrition bar or something. Maybe a piece of Pepperidge Farm Carbstyle toast with lite margarine and just a schmear of all-fruit preserves. Sometimes a mini-bag of microwave popcorn.
I mainly drink water at work and Crystal Light at home. I do not meet my water quota of 64 oz everyday. I hardly ever hit that goal. I might hit 48. Yesterday, I would say I probably drank 40 ounces of fluids. I have a glass of diet soda maybe once a week. I think it has been two weeks since I had any soda.
I rarely take my daily supplements. I will definitely make an effort to get back to that. I just really do not ever think of it.
I have been walking/jogging maybe twice a week. I find it so boring. It is only do-able for me if I have someone to do it with. I have been hitting the trails in different parks lately and have really been enjoying that. It is so fun to navigate through the rough trails. You have to really pay attention when you are running on them or you wil get clocked. It is a challenge. I thought the trail around Burr Pond in Torrington was awesome!
I still have yet to attend one of the support groups that my surgeon has every month. I just don't have an interest in participating in that and meeting other people who are going through what I am going through. I just don't feel a need for this support and interaction. I have gotten all the answers I have needed form ObesityHelp. I have learned to accept the stalls in weight loss and the hair loss, etc.
Speaking of hair loss...my hair was falling out for about three months and then it stopped. It looks pretty thin on top, but it is nothing that has really affected my life. It's sparse enough that I can see the gleam of the sunlight reflecting off the top of my head if I check myself in a mirror, but nothing too traumatizing.
I have been feeling the cold more than most people lately, I have found. My hands are usually ice cold. At work, I seem to be the only one with this problem. I never had it before, either. I guess my body will take time to adjust to it's loss of insulation. The cold hand thing is very troublesome, though. Sometimes, at work, my hands are so cold and numb that I have trouble palpating a vein and performing my job.
All in all, this surgery has been a great success and I have no complaints. I have had no complications. I have lost over 60% of my excess weight in six months. My randomly-set personal goal is 160. That is less than 30 pounds away. My BMI is 30 right now. I started at a 42 or a 43. Right now, I am still OBESE, but in less than ten pounds lost, I will be only OVERWEIGHT! When I get below 180, I believe I can claim that distinction. WOOHOO!!!!!!!!!!!!
October 22, 2007
Oct 22, 2007
I have only lost about 5 pounds this month. What's the dealy-o?? I will admit that I have not exercised much this month. But, I believe I had this surgery so the weight would magically fall off without exercise or effort!!! IS THAT SO WRONG?!!
Anyway...I am at 196.6 this morning.
I ordered some nice clothes to wear once I start singing on the Worship Team at church. That should be this weekend. I got a couple of dresses, a suit-type thing, and some camisoles. I just need some shoes. I haven't worn a dress in manymany years. Probably not since I was a bridesmaid in '94. This will be weird.
I will try to get a picture taken and get it up here. The last picture I had posted was almost 20 pounds ago, so I guess I am due.
I really need to get my butt out there and walk for at least an hour today. It is just so much FUNNER to sit on my booty doing nothing, though.
Anyway...I am at 196.6 this morning.
I ordered some nice clothes to wear once I start singing on the Worship Team at church. That should be this weekend. I got a couple of dresses, a suit-type thing, and some camisoles. I just need some shoes. I haven't worn a dress in manymany years. Probably not since I was a bridesmaid in '94. This will be weird.
I will try to get a picture taken and get it up here. The last picture I had posted was almost 20 pounds ago, so I guess I am due.
I really need to get my butt out there and walk for at least an hour today. It is just so much FUNNER to sit on my booty doing nothing, though.
October 7, 2007
Oct 09, 2007
199.8!!!!! 
I finally got myself below 200 lbs. Man, I had been hovering just above it for weeks. It was so cool to see those numbers on the scale today. Freakin' awesome.
I got all my bloodwork done...VitB panel, VitD, lipids, iron, all that stuff. Everything was perfect. No anemia, no deficiencies of any kind. Dr. Benbrahim did a fantastic job reconfiguring my intestines. I guess I have done pretty okay getting my nutritional needs met, too. I am a week away from five months post-op and I have lost more than half of my excess weight. I am down 71 pounds. My excess weight was around 130 pounds. 130 pounds of FAT! Wow.
I was looking at some pictures of me when I was in high school. My senior prom picture...I was pretty big. That was 14 years ago. I was fatter then than I am now. There was a pic of me sitting next to my grandmother...I was even bigger. I looked terrible and absolutely miserable. That picture especially broke my heart. No wonder my life fell apart, starting in high school. I hated myself so much. I could not stand to look at myself day after day. I can't even begin to go into what I put myself through. A lot of self-destructive ways, though. I wasted my genius-level IQ and sought solace in drugs and alcohol. I've got a long way to go. With God's help, I will overcome my old self.
September 14, 2007
Sep 14, 2007
Weight is at 206.5 today. 'Tis going very slow, but it doesn't bother me too much. It WOULD be nice if it melted off like it is supposed to, but whatever. Two more weeks until my next appointment with Dr. Benbrahim..I believe it will be four and a half months. I will have all my bloodwork then. I've got to pick up a requisition for that next week. I suck at taking my vitamins like I am supposed to, so we shall see how that goes. I never take iron!! I haven't even taken my anti-depressants in the past two weeks. I am really feeling that debacle, though.
I have become much more regular with bm's. I have not had to use m.o.m. in weeks. I am owing it to adding a piece of fruit everyday. It all happened at the same time.
I am beginning to get very involved with the church website. I am very happy about this. I waited for years to find the right opportunity to become a meaningful part of the church, and I believe this is it. I will be in charge of a couple of sections of the site: Audio teachings (recordings of the sermons) and the "about us" section. This is pretty cool. I am going to get to learn about website building software, too. Anything to help my walk and refocus my eyes on the Lord is enough to make me get up and cheer.
I am hoping to get out to one of the state parks and go hiking tomorrow. It should be 75. Maybe I could even go to the beach. That would be a stretch, though. But maybe.
I am looking at my avatar and thinking..."Wow..I am ten pounds skinnier than that picture now. Woohoo!!" Come on now. My face is pretty scrawny there. So, that means it's even scrawnier now! Awesome!!!
It is 5pm. What have I eaten so far?
Breakfast ~Hard-boiled egg and 1/2 pear
Lunch ~1 cup of chicken vegetable soup and 2 saltines
Dinner ~Turkey frank and Pepp. Farm Carbstyle bread slice
Probably about 450 cals and 26 grams protein..I need more protein dammit!! I should have a shake tonight if I am not really hungry for real food. I am seriously trying to cut back on the carbs and junk to get my weight loss going again. I need to get more exercise definitely though. I have really slacked off on that the past couple of weeks. Today, though, I bought that yucky soup rather than have a slice of pizza which was FREE!
I DO, however, have my eye on the mac and cheese that is on next week's menu at work. Oh...it shall be mine. I will drive back out for that delicacy.
I have become much more regular with bm's. I have not had to use m.o.m. in weeks. I am owing it to adding a piece of fruit everyday. It all happened at the same time.
I am beginning to get very involved with the church website. I am very happy about this. I waited for years to find the right opportunity to become a meaningful part of the church, and I believe this is it. I will be in charge of a couple of sections of the site: Audio teachings (recordings of the sermons) and the "about us" section. This is pretty cool. I am going to get to learn about website building software, too. Anything to help my walk and refocus my eyes on the Lord is enough to make me get up and cheer.
I am hoping to get out to one of the state parks and go hiking tomorrow. It should be 75. Maybe I could even go to the beach. That would be a stretch, though. But maybe.
I am looking at my avatar and thinking..."Wow..I am ten pounds skinnier than that picture now. Woohoo!!" Come on now. My face is pretty scrawny there. So, that means it's even scrawnier now! Awesome!!!
It is 5pm. What have I eaten so far?
Breakfast ~Hard-boiled egg and 1/2 pear
Lunch ~1 cup of chicken vegetable soup and 2 saltines
Dinner ~Turkey frank and Pepp. Farm Carbstyle bread slice
Probably about 450 cals and 26 grams protein..I need more protein dammit!! I should have a shake tonight if I am not really hungry for real food. I am seriously trying to cut back on the carbs and junk to get my weight loss going again. I need to get more exercise definitely though. I have really slacked off on that the past couple of weeks. Today, though, I bought that yucky soup rather than have a slice of pizza which was FREE!
I DO, however, have my eye on the mac and cheese that is on next week's menu at work. Oh...it shall be mine. I will drive back out for that delicacy. About Me
Schmenkmanville, CT
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Surgery
05/15/2007
Surgery Date
Jan 14, 2007
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