Christina S.

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Sooooo it's been awhile since I have posted!!!! I will give a quick update I am 293, lost quite a few sizes and pounds :) in four days i will be in my 3 month since surgery and I am absolutely loving the changes! I fit in jeans and I can buy from the 2x rack can't wait till I am compfortably in the 1 x rack but i am a patient girl! :) Ne way I got my gym membership and I will be starting to work out on a regular basis. I would like to make sure my skin tightens up so that it leave me with minimal excess skin. YUCK!!!!!!! Ne way I want to lost twenty-thirty pounds this upcoming month cus then it will get me pretty much close to 100 pounds lost! I want to make the century club :) So I am gonna work extra hard to get those extra pounds off!!!!!! I want to lose as much weight in this honeymoon stage as possible so that when I hit my first plateau I won't be tooo disappointed :( I was told that we all get plateaus and I really don't want to experience a plateau until after I  have lost the bulk amount of weight I want to lose. I just want my face to get thin and my arms to get smaller. Really I would be soooo happy if my face was thin and my arms were thin. Those two things on me are the things I don't like the most. so I will work on the extra hard. I'm gonna get some weights and start using the five pound weights on my arms to try and tighten the breast and shoulder areas up, i'm 24 I don't need saggy droopey you knows hehe i'm waaaaay to young for those :D
ne way I will say goodnight for now and will post again when i have more news 

Chrissy

Hey all well I have been weighed again, it's been a little over 2 months since surgery and I have lost a total of 64 pounds!!!!!!!! How sweet is that!!! so I started out at 357 and now I weigh 293! how wonderful is that! I still feel huge but that feeling is getting better you know I don't feel as bulky as before. I feel good. I have been in the 200's since a little after I had my daughter. She's now 7 so you can imagine the feelings I am feeling about myself right now. One feeling Im feeling is why didn't I love myself enough before surgery to make these healthy decisions I seem to be living my life around. You know. I wish I could have stuck with the things I set out to do before. Oh well then and now are two different times in my life. I like to think of these times as being all new. Life is good and hopefully will get a whole lot better with time. I keep wondering though if I am losing properly should I be losing more or is this a good amount I'm not sure. Ne way I will just go with the flow I guess and see where it takes me. :) 

that's my quick update for you all I hope you have your own good updates some day!

Chrissy

Alright so life is still good I haven't been weighed in at least three weeks or more and I am getting antsy to find out if I'm under 300 yet!!!!
But I swore I wouldn't weigh myself but once a month so I will wait and weigh myself next week. So i hadn't been taking my iron like I was sposed to be but then I started and OMG!!!!!!! My energy level is so freakin high is awsome. I went for an hour and a half walk today then came home sat for ten minutes and went right back out for another walk. HOW SWEET IS THAT? This surgery is a tool I must admit there's no miracle to it cus I am still be but I am shrinking and that is soooo sweet, however i am finding that I m sooooo worried about what I eat. I count calories and read labels and am trying to learn new ways of cooking not eating ne time I want and just living life instead of eating it away. What freedom. I tell you, you can learn alot about yourself after having a surgery like this. It makes you start to think and makes you wonder what it was that was keeping you so large in the first place. Then you start to realize the difference in having hope and haven non. I reach for a piece of fruit now instead of a bag of chips, or a bottle of water instead of a bottle of pepsi. It is completely crazy the changes that have happened in just two months. I am so happy with most of the changes some changes I am sad about but most of them are pretty easy to handle. Ne way clothes are fitting so much differently now and I can't wait to see what I will weigh in two months from now. Till next time.

Peace

Chrissy

Ok so i am almost two months post-op and I am feeling like I am doing everything wrong. I forget to take my vitamins and I deffinately think I am making poor food choices. Protein what is that ne way. LOL
Ok so not even a full two months out and I feel like I am tripping up you know. So it's five in the morning I am sitting here trying to think of what I should buy for groceries. I don't know if ne one has noticed but the grocery store isn't made for wls patients. All i ever see at the grocery store is food I once loved and now can't have hehehe don't they know how wrong that is to torture such a poor soul. Jeesh! heheh I may just be feeling sorry for myself who knows! hehe I seem to only write in the blog when i am feeling out of control I do apologize I am not a negative person what so ever however I do get a bit frustrated at times, especially when i have no clue what the hell im doing. LOL I need new ideas for recipes, but have you ever tried searching for wls recipes? You have to pay for these wonderful recipes and I am sorry I am not gonna pay for simple recipes. I'll buy a book "MAYBE" but I wouldn't pay for emailed recipes how stupid is that. I just want to start getting in the proper amounts of protein, iron, vitamin c, B12 yadda yadda yadda. I did take the once a month needle option for vitamin b12. it's easier and it's one less thing I need to worry about. I haven't been weight since my last Dr.appointment which I think is a wise decision. I think it would be way to easy to get addicted to weighing myself and that wouldn't be good so I will be weighed once a month. Besides I am really the kinda person that likes seeing big huge results as apposed to tiny little ones
it's more exciting. So ne way my diet sucks! and I seemed to have alienated myself from the ontario forum, by sticking up for someone I thought was being picked on. D'OH! I should learn to keep my mouth shut I tell ya. I honestly have the wounded bird syndrome. Alaways looking out for that wounded little birdy that needs to be taken care of. WELL NO MORE I SAY NO NO NO. I am the wounded birdy at the moment and who is gonna take care of me. I don't see ne one lining up for me. hehehe OH well such is life. Ne way gotta find some support. SUPPORT SUPPORT SUPPORT. I feel as if I m blinded and I have no clue in which direction to go. I have never been a wise person when it comes to food and why did a nutritionist think after three appointments I would have ne clue what the hell Im doing!!!! LOL She certainly had high expectations of me. Not that it's too late or ne thing to start eating properly however I prefer to eat a yogurt three times a day then to eat ne thing else. However I should be past the mainly liquid diet, I miss rice! So i have started this new kinda addiction since WLS patients are known for developing new addictions as apposed to food. Ne way my new addiction is WALKING. It seems the moment I feel emotional I get the need to throw my headphones on and I go I get lost in the music and just walk. This is alright accept ne thing is good in moderation. I think I may need to seek out a psychologist hehehe seek some mental health out LOL I don't mind paying someone to hear me bitch for an hour. Not at all. In fact I think ne one who choses the career for listening to people bitch and moan about decisions they have made for themselves deserve to be paid. BRAVO for them, especially if the manage to stay sane. Hell I can't even stand listening to my own brain bitching let alone someone else.  Honestly though, I deffinately think that mental health is something that is more important after this surgery then even protein. We all have our own reasons for being overweight and I think we should have to deal with those barriers and blocks before we get this surgery. Now I know that if you are pre-op and reading this you may be saying what!!!!! Give me a break haven't I waited long enough for this surgery I want my surgery as soon as possible and I am fine when it comes to my mental health. Well I say to you.........if you feel sad more then two times a weak or if you feel hopeless then these feelings will only be intensified after surgery so why not deal with them now before you can't binge eat "JUST KIDDING" well maybe not but seriously It would be alot easier if I could eat something really sweet when I am sad. NE way Off of subject, I tend to wonder from topic to topic lately i think it may be my deficiancy in my B's Oh well ne way this is my blog if you so chose to read it you must read my insane ramblings as well. Ok so here is a little nutritional fact for you! CALCIUM is very important in the weight loss process. A study was done that showed individuals who consume 1200-1500 g of calcium a day were shown to lose most if not all of their excess weight! HOW SWEET IS THAT!!!!! so now we know that Calcium is important as well as protein. The best part about the whole calcium thing is that you can get you protein and your calcium from MILK!!!! OH YA OH YA! however you should still take a supplement for both . So i gots my Caltrate Vitamin 600 with Vitamin D chewables and I am gonna chew two a day just like the little box tells me to and then I am gonna find some kinda protein pill LOL and I am gonna take one of them a day, and then then then then I am gonna take my multivitamin, and my iron, and my tagmin since my tummy is irratable at times and I am going to live in my medicated bliss. YAHOOOO! I worry more now about death then what I did before surgery hehehe!  Seriously, I am finding things now that I think would have been beneficial to know before surgery. Or maybe I chose to overlook these things before surgery so I would feel confident in my decision to have this surgery! Either way i am felling a little confused. I have been in this confused state since sugery! Confused about EVERYTHING!!!!!!! I would like to very much get the whole nutritional eating thing figured out! i think the whole nutrition thing is important, maybe not as important as fitting in a new size of jean but it's deffinately important in some way! I just haven't figured it out yet! Ne way it's official my ramblings are out of control I shoudl stop now and leave it at this. SOOOOOOOOOOOOO A quick conclusion to this morning 5:00 am rambalings. I am down pretty much 57 pounds I am confused on what to eat and how much to eat, I am extatic over the current weight loss can't wait to see how much I will be down by my next birthday, umm it's still cold and I am depressed to the point of insanity. "just kidding" I'm not depressed. Really Im not. 
:) See ya'll next time!!!

Cheers Chrissy! 
NO wait I am changing my whole CHEERS ending because it someone else used it whom I found to be quite annoying so I will change it to 

ummm whooommmmmmm let me see Ok it will be 

Salam :) AKA PEACE

Chrissy

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Ok so I am officially past my one month mark and I am now 312! YAHOOOOOOOO! Since i have been eating fish on a regular basis I have been getting my protein and so my weight is coming off quite nicely. I'm 5 weeks post-op and already down 45 pounds! how sweet is that!!!!! I hope I'm down under 300 by the end of this month! That would be WONDERFUL! Been walking alot more and doing alot more. The energy I have now is amazing. I am sooooo much happier now that the weight is coming off! I can't wait until I am down to a decent size where I can fit in jeans without looking for the largest size they have!!! Ne way I'm doing pretty good and will up date the next time I can remember too. Oh ya hehehe I've become a shop aholic, buying a couple sizes smaller of clothes so that i have something to look forward too!!! hehehehe HOW FUN! 

Cheers

Chrissy

Hey all so I am approaching my one month annerversery and I am down almost 40 pounds and I am pretty sure that when my one month is fully here it will be official. So Ok the changes I have experienced in this past month. I am more tired now then what I was before surgery, however i think that has more to do with anemia then it does surgery. I love the weight loss part and I can't wait till I lose more. I miss carbinated fluids, I have yet to experience the dumping syndrom, Must be doing something right, I miss rice, and I don't like the purreed diets ummm I need to eat more protein i think and when I get that up i am sure that I will drop weight even faster. I can't wait till the DR. says I can do more then just walk. I wanna get on the olyptical asap. I bought myself a couple new outfits to get into. How awsome is that that I can buy something smaller then me and know that eventually I will fit in it!!!! I love it. Ne way I hope I can be down under 300 by the end of march.not putting pressure on myself but I would really love to be able to say Oh i am 298 LOL I love the weight loss hate eating but love losing. GO figure. Who'd a thought this could really happen.

Ne way

keep smiling and have faith

Cheers 

Chrissy

Well since this is my blog I am going to just write into it as if it's a journal for myself. I would like to start out by saying that this website only ever concentrates on the goods of this surgery, and that is fine absolutely fine however I think that it would be important for people who haven't had this surgery to be able to hear the whole story the whole picture. Weight loss is great, no one ever told me that I would be feeling like shit 24 hours a day after surgery, no one ever told me that drinking water was so difficult. These are all things a person should be told. I know that maybe this is only a stage in the journey however it's a stage someone should be told about. I wouldn't change my mind because I am confident in my decisions and I will not go back on any decision I have made. Although I would like to bring something up. The day I was visited by a fellow OH person I was very sick in bed almost dying and he came back and told everyone I was great! This is false advertisment. I wasn't great when he seen me I wasn't doing good but he said I was anyway! What was that about? Was it to make sure that no one seen the bad side of surgery? That no one was discouraged from having this surgery? Who knows!!! All I know is that I am not going to lie to people about anything I experience through this surgery. I'm not. It's wrong to leave parts of a story out it's wrong to sell something to someone who is completely blind. So here it is! The true part. People you really need to be prepared physically and mentally for this surgery to be a success. If you are not prepared for the whole sipping water and fluids all day long then you are going to suffer. So you should start before you get surgery . So that when it's time for you to have surgery when you come out your not stressed out over drinking. IT SUCKS! so get used to it before it becomes a necessity. Eating is a complete chore too. you spend most of your time worrying about how much you need to eat. I tell you I would prefer to just not eat. I know it's only been a week but Ok my posts will get sunnier and cherrier hopefully as the weeks go on. I am happy about the weight loss don't get me wrong. But I went into this surgery because I wanted to feel healthier, But now I am anemic, which is causing me to be very weak and I am unable to even nurish myself. This is not healthy! I may have been fat before surgery (I'm still fat now) but at least I was able to be happy and chipper. I am finding it's hard to smile right now due to the fact that I feel like death on a I have no clue I feel like CRAP!!!! I remember specifically asking people to tell me about this kinda thing. Anyway I still love this website, it's great and I adore most of the people I talk to hehehe. I just hope for the next person who is reading my story that their inspiration comes from a full picture, so they can be mentally prepared to handle the physical aspect of what comes with surgery. IT's not just losing weight. Anyway I will post tomorrow or even later on today whenever I feel or think of something new. I promise this blog will be a full account of what I go through. THe UPS and the DOWNS!!!

Cheers 

Chrissy :)

So I have had surgery :) However I don't feel as happy as I thought I would. I don't feel happy because my surgery just like most other things in my life turned out hard then what I thought it would be. See I started hemoraging and so I was bleeding lots and lots and lots. I ended up having to get a blood transfusion and stay in the hospital for five days. I am still stuck here in Rochester and I am not very happy about that either. I have to stay here till I see the Dr. and make sure that I am fine. HOW FUN. i had lost 12 pounds in three days. It's been three days since I've looked at the scale so I could be down more I dont know. At this point I don't really care. I just want to go home be with my child and get back to normal life. Since I have lost so much blood my blood levels are very low so on top of the normal fatigue one gets after surgery I have the added bonus of being weak from anemia. I am not regretful that i had surgery, I can honestly say, however I feel sad for myself because I was the rare case and my luck always goes like that. It wasn't a text book surgery it was the one where i almost died. Go figure. LOL
I thank God though for all the blessings in my life, I certainly have so many blessings in my life that I really have no rights to complain not even a little.
I am finding it hard to consume all that I am supposed to in one day. I don't know why it's so hard for me. It's like I am hungry but at the same time I have no interest. It's crazy really. Ne way I have complained enough. I will go for now and come back when I have something nice to say.
Please forgive me for my negativety.

Cheers

Chrissy :(

Ok so Surgery will be in like 2 1/2 weeks and I am completely Freaking out! I haven't blogged the date of my surgery so I will blog it now. I am getting surgery on the 24th which is completely mind blowing. I have waited over a year to hear the little words your surgery will be on!!! and now I have heard them and now I am nervous as all hell! However i have some great friends on here so this makes it soooo much more easier! I don'tknow what I am scared of, other then dying. I think I am afraid of the pain and wishing that I had never had the surgery done! LOL and what if the surgery doesn't work! Ya know that normal kinda stuff I guess. I love the thought of having a smaller body and the before and after photo's are deffinately making this easier. Knowing that soon I will be posting my weight loss efforts. I can't wait till I can say I am under 300, then 200, then 150. That is my ultimate goal is to get to 130 pounds. However I will settle at 150. that would be alright too. I just want to be able to have a piggy back ride without breaking my sweeties back you know! to be carried over the threshold when I am married. OOOH how beautiful that would be!! ne way this surgery is deffinately something that I want. It's something that I want to work for me. I have read the memorials and read how hopeful each and every person is on here sometimes I would tear for the people who thought their new life was going to be so wonderful and it's wripped out from them before they have their chances. I am afraid of this I am afraid of going after the 24 and there be no more blogs from me accept for the memorials.That is what I am afraid of. Me going through all of this trouble just to die ne way. Although I will trust that God knows best and whatever he wants is what will happen. His plan is perfect and who am I to question his decisions. So I'll just go with the flow! :)

bye for now

Chrissy!

So it's great news I have been given my final approval, OHIP says go ahead and I was so excited when I heard this but then!!!! Guess what!
Dr. Omalley's Office hasn't given me a date yet!!! What is up with that??? The receptionist told me two weeks ago as soon as I got my final approval that I would get my surgery date right away! But now I am told that they will call me in a few days. I JUST WANT THE BLESSED DATE!!!!!!!! hehe I would like to have the Hotel booked and have everything set up so that there is nOOOOO worries you know. I want to make sure that there is going to be nothing to deal with except the surgery itself you know!! Anyway so it was just a quick Little update, as  soon as I get my date I will let you all know!!!

HUgs

Chrissy