Crystal Woods

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I was sleeved by Dr. Almanza at the Jerusalem Clinic on 03/01/2012. I started my liquid diet several weeks early because I figured the more weight I dropped before surgery then the less I would have left to lose. Including my pre-op diet I have lost a total of 36 lbs. I weighed 209 on the day of my surgery and as of today I am 192. That is 17 pounds in 16 days. I will take it! ;) My journey in Mexico was rough because of the lack of pain medication but I met some amazing people and so far everything has been great with the surgery. I am still in the mushies stage and I plan to wait a little longer before doing any strenous exercise. I love my sleeve already. I don't feel hungry ever. Don't get me wrong, if I see an advertisement for something delicious I still want it but not nearly as much and only with head hunger not actual hunger. I haven't picked a name for my sleeve yet. I am considering Sleevendor - the defender of slender body However, if he keeps acting up everytime I eat meat then I will have to go with Sleeverella - the whiny princess...

Hello Everyone. My name is Crystal. I have not always been obese. Throughout childhood I was scrawny. Seriously. Through high school my highest weight was 115 and I am 5' 0" tall. I never thought I was small. I had some confidence but was still convinced I was overweight. I hit college and gained the freshman 15...or is it 40. I was still in good shape and weight around 125 to 130. Then in my sophomore year of college I had my first daughter, followed 17 months later by my second daughter. My weight fluctuated between 139 and 176 depending on how many diet pills I was eating at the time. In 2009 I gave birth to my son and was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. My body and heart where flooded with fluid. I lost 43 pounds in 3 days in the hospital on IV lasix and had to have 2 blood transfusions. It was over a year before I recieved approval from the cardiologist to exercise. By that point I weight around 200 lbs and it had become much more difficult to do it. Over the next year I basically ignored myself. I hid behind baggy clothing and I refused to go out with any of my skinny friends from my past. Everytime I went somewhere I prayed that I wouldn't run into old friends or acquaintances. My boyfriend, Dustin, and my relationship started rapidly deteriorating. I refused to let him see me undressed because of my shame. Finally near the end of last year I made the decision to spend my tax return on gastric sleeve surgery. I do not have insurance so I was Mexico bound!