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Well, first off I would just like to say I am sorry that I havent posted anything in literally YEARS. My brother is currently in the process of getting RNY and I was just telling him how awesome this site is and how much it helped me through my process, when I thought to myself...What's up? Why haven't I been on here to update everyone on my progress and success! So here it goes! I really dont even know where to begin because my life has changed so much! I guess I will start with my weight loss since that is what this site is all about! Well I had my surgery in August of 2009. I lost almost all of my weight VERY rapidly! I went down about 70 pounds in the first 6 months. then over the next 3 months I lost another 40. So it took me less than a year to lose 110 pounds altogether! I am in the best shape now then I have ever been in my life. Although I would like to be a little more toned than I am now, I am completely happy with where I am at. I would encourage anyone questioning whether to get this surgery or not to DO IT! It was one of the best decisions I have ever made in my life! I would do it 10 times over if i had to but obviously that is not necessary because I have not only lost the weight but I have maintained it for almost 4 years now! My daughter Ryleigh will be 5 years old next month. She is amazingly wonderful, beautiful and just simply adorable. She is definately a handful but I am actually able to keep up with her! Had it not been for the surgery I dont know how I would have chased after her or played with her like she loves to do. I love being able to go shopping and not have to try things on. being able to grab a small or even an EXTRA SMALL, and know that it will fit without having to go into the dressing room! although i still do try things on just to reassure myself of how DAMN GOOD i look lol! I must say that I have become somewhat of a shopping addict now that I have lost weight because for so long i couldnt buy things that I wanted, I had to buy what would fit and as I'm sure most of you know, plus size clothes are just not as cute as "normal sizes". I wore a size 24 pants and an XXL shirt at my heaviest. I can now fit into a size 3 pant and small or xtra small shirt. It still amazes me to this day! It never gets old trying on a size 3 and smiling. My goal was to get into a 9 so that I wouldnt be in double digits anymore. Never in a million years would I have thought that I would sqeeze my fat ass into a 3!!!! lol! I currently weigh 130 lbs. I wouldnt mind losing another 10-15lbs but like i said i am extremely happy with where I am at! 

On a different note, I guess I will share with you all some of my personal life. After being physically, mentally and verbally abused for 5 years, I finally got the courage to leave my asshole babies dad. At one point in our relationship before I had the surgery he said to me. "I would never marry you at your weight now! if you do end up getting the surgery, I will consider marrying you if you get down to a size 5." ASSHOLE! I KNOW!!! Even after I lost 110 lbs he would tell me how fat I was. I ended up leaving him because I knew that I could do better and guess what? Now he is the one crying for me because he knows what he lost! He knows that we (my daughter and I) were the best thing that could have ever happened to him. And guess what? He is a day late and a dollar short because I have found the most amazing man that I could have ever laid eyes on. His name is Jared and I am so head over heals in love with him that I could go on about him for hours! He treats me like an absolute princess and tells me how beautiful I am and how much he loves me and how much I mean to him. He is sometimes so wonderful that I have to pinch myself bc I cant believe I found him! I feel like I am walking around in a dream. And not to mention he is absolutely GORGEOUS!!!​ people tell him all the time that he looks like Jake Gylenhaul (lol idk if I spelled that right?) And he does! He is great with my daughter and my family loves him. I do struggle with being treated so good, as weird as that sounds, I was used to being treated like crap for so many years that i dont know how to respond when he tells me how much he cares. I dont know how to act when he wants to hold me bc i was neglected before. In my last relationship, i was lucky if he would tell me he loved me maybe once a week. Jared tells me he loves me everytime he is thinking it and let me tell u, its often! Not to mention, the way that we met...It was like God brought us together. Some devine intervention going on somewhere. We both went to a bar one night that neither of us had ever been to. both of our friends had talked us into going out that night because we didnt want to. we both noticed eachother immediately when I walked into the bar and smiled at eachother. Somehow I started talking to a friend of his and he came up to us and told me he liked my Jersey. (I had just come from a University of Michigan game) Well we started talking and he asked me where I was from. Mind you, I live in a very very VERY small town about 20 minutes outside of toledo, ohio. Most of the time people have never even heard of where I am from but he thought I was joking when I told him. He thought his friend had told me to say I was from there, because he was from there too! we literally live 2 minutes away from eachother. it would take me about 10 minutes to walk to his house. crazy huh? so needless to say we exchanged numbers and have spent everyday together for the last 6 months. I know that he is the one. We have so much in common. I know that I will spend the rest of my life with this man! OK OK, i know i know! enough of the mushy gushy stuff! I told you i could talk about him forever! :P 

Other than that, I just started a new job working at Famous Dave's. We are trying to save up money so that we can move out of our parents houses and get a place together. Life is so good and I really have no complaints, other than the fact that I DO live with my parents, which kinda sucks...but its not so bad!  Happiness surrounds me and I have so much love and support from everyone around me. So if you are reading this and you are sad and depressed about your weight or current situation...I hope my story motivates you that this surgery has changed my life and can change yours too! And things will get better! Dont give up one way or another! YOU CAN DO IT AND YOU WILL! I have faith in you! If you have any question, dont hesitate to message me! I promise it wont be another 4 years before I check this thing! I will start checking alot now that I remembered it! Lots of love you guys! xoxo

-Britt

Hello all! Just thought I would update! Today I went to the doctor for my week post op appointment and to get my drain tube out. Well I had forgotten all about getting weighed there, and I haven't weighed myself since I have been home. I have been too scared of seeing the weight gain from surgery. Anyways I stepped on the scale, still a little scared, but to my surprise it was ONEDERFUL!!!!! I weighed in at 198!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I haven't weighed under 200 in probablly over 6 years. So needless to say it was a wonderful day. Getting that stupid tube out and weighing 198! And another thing I am not in any pain anymore. I actually feel back to normal. My incisions are healing up nicely and Im not really hungry. The only things that suck are trying to get all my protien in and I am itching like CRAZY!!!!!!

Oh and another thing that I wanted to sort of "vent" about was when I was getting prepped for surgery. I was about to get undressed and the nurse was giving me instructions. I know she meant it as a compliment but I didn't take it that way. She said "Why are you even getting this surgery? You aren't even big...You have a nice shape." Now mind you this is coming from a beautiful woman that probablly weighed about 115 pounds. It really irritates me when people say stuff like that because I dont like the way I look and it shouldn't matter if someone else thinks that I have a nice shape. I am not comfortable in my own skin and I need help losing weight. Like I have said before, if I could lose the weight and keep it off on my own I definately wouldn't be having surgery. But I just told her that I have trouble losing weight and left it at that. I know I am probablly making a bigger deal out of it than I should and I guess it doesn't bother me that much anymore but at the time it just irked me.

Well my boyfriend is bugging me to go to the store so I am going to get off the computer but I will write more another day! Thank you all for your support! I really love this place. I will be posting my pre-op pictures soon too. So keep an eye out for my yucky befores! I am excited for September 10th so that I can actually see the weight difference in my pictures because I don't feel like I have lost any weight. I still feel like I look the same. So we will see!

Love you all -Brittany

Hey all! I am 2 days postop and tired as hell! OMG I was not anticipating that much pain. I told my mom that if I had known there was going to be that much pain, I wouldnt have gotten it done! But I did and it's getting better so I will quit complaining. I will just be happy when I can actually FART! tmi...I know...but u all have been there right? lol Well I am still in the hospital, Not quite sure when they are planning to release me....either later tonight or first thing tomorrow but soon. I am so ready to be in my own bed without people waking me up to poke and prod at me every five minutes! well I am having trouble keeping my eyes open so I am going to go to sleep but wanted to let you all know that I am out and I am doing OK! hugs and kisses!!!!

Britt

Well tomorrow is August 10th! The day of my RNY! I am so nervous. mainly bc I cheated on my preop diet and am worried that my liver wont be small enough...but I still lost about 15 lbs. So I dont know hopefully I will be ok. Its only 10am and I am already starving!!! I can only have clear liquids today and have to take some stuff to clean out my bowels! woo hoo! exciting, I know! Im getting ready to go take my daughter to the park for a walk. hopefully that will take up some time so I wont have to think about FOOD! Well If I dont talk to anyone else today, Wish me luck and pray for a full and speedy recovery! I love all my OH family and thank you all for your support and answers. Im not sure if I would be going through this if it wasnt for you all! See you on the other side!

 Well i only have three more days till surgurey! I am soooo excited. I have to say that this preop diet has been a struggle. I have cheated here and there and Im nervous about it but hopefully it wasnt enough to effect the size of my liverI know that I shouldnt have done it but it was just so hard! I needed something to chew. I know you all have been there before. Anyways I went to a support group last night. It was actually very fun. It was nice to talk to people and professionals about what I am going to go through. I just cant wait for these next couple weeks to be over with so I can start eating some solid foods!!! I feel like such a weirdo because I am actually excited to eat a freakin EGG! Dont think I have ever been excited about a lil ole egg befor but I tell you what aafter these two weeks of hell I am dying for an egg! I have lost 11lbs so far. I only need to lose 14 more lbs before I am in ONEderland! I havent seen a one at the beginning of the scale in years. That is sooooo exciting to me. Well I guess I will go! Pray for me everyone!

Well I called Dr. Lane's office the other day just to see if she had heard anything from my insurance company and suprisisngly she had just gotten off the phone with them and said that I had been approved! yay me!!! She said that my surgery date would be august 17th.  Well then today I called her back to see how much time I would need to take off of work to let my work know and she told me that my surgery date had been moved to AUGUST 10th! I start my pre-op diet on monday! I cannot believe how fast this is all going! I am so excited. I am really nervous about telling my job that I am going to need 3 weeks off of work. IDK if they will let me come back or not, they are weird like that. Either way I don't care I am not going to pass this surgery up for an 8 dollar an hour job. I am so excited. Well I will update some more in about a week. pray for me!

I got a call from my surgeon's assistant the other day, She said that as long as I got the O.K. from my nutritionist, I wouldnt need to go see her anymore! I could finish getting my testing done and submit to my insurance! WOOHOO!!!! i am so excited!!! I only have two more test to get PFT and sleep study and then I will be all set. So hopefully we will get to submit at the end of may and maybe surgery in JUNE! wow I never thought that it would be this soon. I am just praying that my insurance will understand and approve! Just thought that I would share my good news.

Aside from that I lost my job at Aspen Grove but I got a new job at a place called Windhaven, doing the same thing I was doing before. Well anyways before that I had an interview at a tanning salon that was attached to a gym. Well that woulda been great except for the fact that they sell protein bars and health shakes and vitamins and you know all that good stuff. well personally that would have been great because after surgery I could get all my stuff from there with a discount....but before surgery I dont think that they would be too thrilled about having a FAT girl sell all there health products. I cant say that I would blame them. I wouldnt be the perfect candidate to tell someone "hey, this works great! you will lose weight like crazy!"  I am sure that they would be thinking "ok, well why havent you tried it then?" therefor I would sell nothing! no bonus for brittany. lol so i would actually love to work there. free tanning and discount health stuff but i dont think its gonna happen. Just thought that I would share that with you all.

Ummm I moved back in with my parents...eh I know. things arent working great with my boyfriend so we decided to go our separate ways for now. I have to say that I am not exactly thrilled to be living with mom and dad again but it has made things alot easier and i am saving money for my own place and things. They actually just bought a new home so we will be moving shortly, so thats exciting...bigger house so that way I will have my own space. **pool too** so when I get skinny i can look good and throw pool parties! (always wanted to do that)

My daughter is doing great. she will be one next month...soooo sooo close to walking but just hasnt quite got the hang of it yet. she is getting so big tho and i have to say that I am such a proud mom.

All in all things are going so so but at the end of May life should be picking up and getting better! Thanks for all the support and if you read all of this thanks for your time!  Everytime I talk to anyone about my surgery I always talk about my OH friends and support system! love ya all! xoxo
 

April 14th- Psych Evaluation
April 16th- bloodwork
April 28th- Nut Appointment
May 19th- PFT testing
May 20th- Sleep study
May 27th- Last Nut appointment

ok so I know that seems like a lot but its over a period of a little over a month! which will go by pretty fast! once i get that last Nut appointment. in, we can send in my letter for approval! yay! i cant wait! i dream every night about the new skinny me! lol talk to u all later

I went to my first doctors appointment yesterday and I must say that I am so excited. Dr. Lane made me feel so much better about being approved. I was worried that I wouldn't get approved bc i didn't think that I had enough comorbidities. He told me that having a BMI over 40 would be enough but he would also add in my back and joint pain, shortness of breath and depression in too. All in all he was pretty sure that I would be approved. I called his assistant Darcy today and she was not sure if I had to do the 3 months of a seeing a dietitian but recommended it anyway. umm HELLO if I don't have to do it, Y would I? I mean I know it will be good for me but I am ready to get this thing going! But either way I have been fat this long whats an extra 3 months? I just want to start losing NOW! LOL so while she is checking it out for me, I made an appointment with the dietitian for Tuesday. Anyways back to the appointment...my doc said that he would like it if I got down to about 140...but i would rather be around 120. He also said that he was pretty sure that I wouldn't have extra sagging skin, which i am excited about. So this coming month I need to get all of my testing done and then once the dietitian appointments are out of the way I will be good to go as long as my insurance pulls through! I am praying that everything goes smoothly! anyways I will update later when I hear back from Darcy!

sooooo three more days untill my consult with dr. lane! woo hoo!!!! I am so stoked! Anyways just thought that I would write some personal goals of my own.

1. run around with my daughter and not be out of breath
2. wear shorts and mini skirts
3. wear a bikini that does not cover my stomache
4. not be in pain every day when i come home from work
5. not be jelous of all my friends
6. RUN on a treadmil
7. say F.U. to all the people who didnt think I could do it
8. not be embarassed to eat too much food cz im still hungry
9. Find bras that are actually cute and not the big ugly white ones with the HUGE shoulder straps
10. find better friends (not much to do with WLS)
11. take my daughter to the beach or on vacation and not be embarassed by a bathing suit or shorts

theres more and but its depressing to think about bc it just seems so far away. so im gonna quit writing for now and go get my nails done! have a good day all!