Weight Loss Log

Jul 02, 2008

7/1/08: 117.3 kilos/258.06 lbs
7/3/08: 115.9 kilos/254.98 lbs
7/5/08: 115.0 kilos/253 lbs
7/8/08: 114.4 kilos/251.68 lbs
7/10/08: 114.4 kilos/251.68 lbs
7/12/08: 114.4 kilos/251.68 lbs
7/15/08: 113.4 kilos/249.48 lbs
7/17/08: 113.2 kilos/249.04 lbs
7/19/08: 112.5 kilos/247.5 lbs
8/2/08: 109.9 kilos/241.78 lbs
8/9/08: 108.0 kilos/237.60 lbs

Starting Point - It Takes A Village

Jun 29, 2008

I am tired of waiting on everyone. A Dr. at the clinic will ask me how's everything going with Duke. I'll give him a list of tests I need ordered. He'll write the orders and I'll wait. I go to the appointments. Then, I wait for the results. I ask my coordinating nurse questions about whether she's gotten reports from evaluations I've had, she calls me a "Control Freak" and I wait some more. I know that Duke can't not allow me to have surgery because they've already billed Medicare for my post operative counseling. To deny me now would be a big-time case of fraud. So, I started my personal WL journey last Thursday (6/26/08). Wish me luck!!

Starting weight: 118.8 kilos/261.36 lbs.
Neck: 18.75 inches
Shoulders: 52.5 inches
Chest: 49.5 inches
Bust: 58 inches
Midriff: 50.5 inches
Waist: 57.5 inches
Hips: 61 inches
Thigh: 24.5 inches
Calf: 15 inches
Ankle 8.5 inches
Bicep: 13.5 inches
Forearm: 11 inches
Wrist: 7 inches

My ALL TIME FAVORITE WLS Quote

Jun 21, 2008

Several of us talked...later and one of the things that came up, was that when we are losing all of this weight we hope we'll be the lucky one that doesn't look like a sharpei when we're done. We know that other's may look worse, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that we did this 'damage' to ourselves and we to a certain extent grieve the fact that we have hurt ourselves and can't get back that 'lost' beauty. I know it sounds vain and maybe it is, but I know that if I hadn't done this to myself I would have been a beautiful young woman. I think I'm reasonably attractive now ... with the 'right' clothes on ... but it hurts to know that if I hadn't gained all of that weight, I would have been a beautiful young woman. That's lost, I can be an attractive middle-aged woman now. So now that I've recognized that I'm grieving what could have been, I need to learn to celebrate what is and what I have done FOR myself and let go of what I did TO myself. I can tell that for me this is part of my journey and it's a process that I need to get through. I hope that recognizing it will help me to come through it learning to love who I am without being upset about or making apologies for who and what I am now.

Barbara C.


Which Temperment Are You?

Dec 30, 2007

Custom Keirsey Temperament Report for Kelly Harrington

Your Keirsey Temperament Sorter Results indicate that your personality type is that of The GuardianTM.

All Guardians share the following core characteristics:

  • Guardians pride themselves on being dependable, helpful, and hard-working.
  • Guardians make loyal mates, responsible parents, and stabilizing leaders.
  • Guardians tend to be dutiful, cautious, humble, and focused on credentials and traditions.
  • Guardians are concerned citizens who trust authority, join groups, seek security, prize gratitude, and dream of meting out justice.

Guardians are the cornerstone of society, for they are the temperament given to serving and preserving our most important social institutions. Guardians have natural talent in managing goods and services--from supervision to maintenance and supply--and they use all their skills to keep things running smoothly in their families, communities, schools, churches, hospitals, and businesses.

Guardians can have a lot of fun with their friends, but they are quite serious about their duties and responsibilities. Guardians take pride in being dependable and trustworthy; if there's a job to be done, they can be counted on to put their shoulder to the wheel. Guardians also believe in law and order, and sometimes worry that respect for authority, even a fundamental sense of right and wrong, is being lost. Perhaps this is why Guardians honor customs and traditions so strongly--they are familiar patterns that help bring stability to our modern, fast-paced world.

Practical and down-to-earth, Guardians believe in following the rules and cooperating with others. They are not very comfortable winging it or blazing new trails; working steadily within the system is the Guardian way, for in the long run loyalty, discipline, and teamwork get the job done right. Guardians are meticulous about schedules and have a sharp eye for proper procedures. They are cautious about change, even though they know that change can be healthy for an institution. Better to go slowly, they say, and look before you leap.

Guardians make up as much as 40 to 45 percent of the population, and a good thing, because they usually end up doing all the indispensable but thankless jobs the rest of us take for granted.


I love FLIP-FLOPS!!

Dec 22, 2007

I was directed to a "Myspace" BLING PAGE (!!) this morning and started going through avatars, gifs and such!!  

I find myself strangely attracted to this flip-flop gif.  



I think it's because of a joke that Keith and I have where he's wanting to get me a pair of flip-flops for every major (and minor) holiday.  He says we should go to the shoe store (or Wal-mart!!) and ask to be fitted for a pair of flip-flops. (funny in and of itself!!) Then, watch the face of the salesperson when they realize that I'm an amputee!! (No big toe or 2nd one)  He really wants to exclaim "OMG!! What happened to her toes??" and see what reaction he gets!!

We're either really sick or have entirely too much time on our hands!!  

Either way, it's why we're so happy together!!

Kelly





Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."

Dec 12, 2007

How to make a CosmicKelly
Ingredients:
5 parts friendliness
1 part silliness
5 parts energy
Method:
Combine in a tall glass half filled with crushed ice. Add fitness to taste! Do not overindulge!


Quizzes can be quite revealing.  I completely agree with the ingredients list and will add some more when I'm not using this blog to procrastinate getting my Christmas cards done!!

The method is kinda ironic, too, as I eat a whole lot of ice to combat my ferocious thirst.  

A cup of ice is much better than drinking a cup of water because of my fluid restrictions.  (There's a lot of air in a cup of regular ice cubes.)   Dialysis patients (like myself) are limited to 32 ounces of liquds per day and that's including fluids found in foods like: juicy tangerines,  tomatoes and ice cream-just to name a few.  

The "do not overindulge"  has gotten me thinking.  As I look back, overindulgence has gotten me where I am today.  

I am so glad that I made the decision that finally enough is enough. And I am so hoping that everything works out with my evaluation.  I am doing research on "Dialysis" and "bariatric surgery" and am going to take the results of those studies with me.  Hopefully, if I am armed with evidence that this surgery can and will work for me, I'll get the go ahead!!

I wish I had more time to write...

Maybe next time!!

ComicKelly :)

 Frosty 
This is funny considering it ws 81 degrees here, yesterday!!

Inaugural Post: "Ouest for the Best"

Dec 08, 2007

Two of my (most recent) favorite quotes by author, Scott D. Yost (County Editor at the famed Rhino Times) are when he was speaking of Coach Steve Spurier's desire to teach his athletes to "run for the ball" and force a fumble.


"We spend so much time focused on preparing for bad scenarios that we forget to
prepare for the good ones. We buy insurance; we save money; we keep medical
supplies in the cabinet – but are we doing all we can in our lives to prepare
for when good things happen?"

and

"Catch yourself every time you find yourself going "What's the point? This
or that will never happen – so why bother?"

Don't ever say, "My luck doesn't run that way." Maybe your luck doesn't run
that way because you're not open to it – and, anyway, even if your luck did run
that way, it wouldn't matter because you wouldn't be prepared and ready to
accept it and the luck would probably just fizzle out.

The word "luck" comes from a Scandinavian word meaning "To catch." Being
prepared for good things to happen – running to the ball – is the difference
between having good fortune fly right by you but miss you completely and – if
you are standing there prepared and alert, expectantly looking up in the sky
with a glove held up and open – being ready for the catch, so that when that big
break comes at you from out of nowhere, you'll be ready to snag it out of the
air, put it in your pocket and carry it with you."


 

So, now you know the reasoning behind naming this blog as I have. "Quest for the Best." is all about planning for the best case scenarios in life and how I am preparing for them.

Of late is my referral for gastric bypass surgery from two of my nephrologists (Drs. Colonardo and Detterding) to the Duke Weight Loss Center in Durham. 

On Friday, Septemeber 14th, 2007, I attended a mandatory seminar on weight loss surgery options. During the seminar, I learned basic information about both Lapband and Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass surgeries, met previous paitents and gathered application materials.


I was kinda taken aback by the "seminar," as I had prepared (after talking with many Duke people on the phone) to be meeting "one-on-one" with one or two people at the most. When I arrived, (a few minutes late-due to traffic) I was greeted by a hospital conference room (ironically, situated right beside the cafeteria!!) jammed packed full of people!! I truly think the reason why they require a $250 application fee (which your insurance doesn't pay for) is to narrow down the number of people they have to process.

I took the paperwork home, read through it and decided it would be much quicker to apply online and pay the application fee with my debit card. So, I did. When you make a completely life altering decision like this one, you want to "get the show on the road" PDQ!! 6 or 7 weeks and quite few phone calls later, I got my special packet with information on how to proceed and the date of my first evaluation appointment. Feb. 7th, 2008 @ 8:00 am. An eternity away!! Well, at least they gave me a whole slew of medical test to complete (and keep me busy!!) until then.

More about the contents of the packet when we next meet.

CosmicKelly

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Weight Loss Log
Starting Point - It Takes A Village
My ALL TIME FAVORITE WLS Quote
Which Temperment Are You?
I love FLIP-FLOPS!!
Things that make you go "Hmmmm..."
Inaugural Post: "Ouest for the Best"

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