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5 months 1 week
I have 2 more points to go then my BMI will be normal!!!!!  I have about 23lbs to go but I think I will focus more on what size clothing I want which is a     10/12.  That will make me happy.  I refuse to buy clothes because I go through them in a few weeks.  This week it will be tight and in 2 weeks it will be too baggy.  I dont want to waist my money, besides, I live in scrubs at work.  It looks like we wear pj's.  I have not been to the gym yet but since my weight loss is slowing down I will start going.  I have been good with my vitimins lately and I started my protein shakes again because I know I'm not getting enough protein.  
My goal is to get to a size 10/12 by New Years!!!!!!

September 23, 2007
Im not obese anymore!!!!  Im just overweight now.  Down 66lbs. Almost there.  I need to work out but dont feel like it.  I need to take my vitimins but they taiste like poo.  Need to get in my protein but Im tired of stressing about it. And the liquids.....not drinking enough but if I drink any more I will float away. My hair is comming out little by little but I have a lot of it anyway.  My MD doesnt seem to be worried about it so I will do my best.  I do notice when Im really tired its because Im not doing what Im supposed to.  So its a little reminder.  I need to get my head out of my rear and do what Im supposed to.

September 14th, 2007
I AM UNDER 200LBS TODAY!!!!!!!!!!  So far no more strictures.  Food does get easily stuck so I spit in a cup for hours but Im down 61lbs in 14 weeks.  39 to go.

September 2, 2007
It has been 12 weeks and I have lost 56lbs and 35 1/2in since June 6, 2007.  Not bad but I, of course, wanted to be a lot less by now.  My goal is to be at 145lbs by Christmas so I can go shopping for clothes.  Still having stricture problems.  Vomiting has become a part of my daily routine.  It shouldn't be that way but Dr. Ali's office just says "go get it checked"  Im over it.

August 17, 2007
On this day I was working, had one bite of a sandwich and alittle soup.  I started feeling alittle pressure in my chest like always but this time it was odd because it was only with one bite of food.  Usually its with 3 or 4 bites.  Back at my 6 week follow-up appt the MD wanted me to go get checked for a stricture but I was too scaired so I said no and if the vomiting got worse I would get it checked.  So now, at 11 weeks post-op, I had been vomiting for 6 hours and the MD's that I work with in the ER said I had to check in.  I got the upper GI done and YEP thats what it was, a Stricture.  I was admited to the hospital but the doctors here were not comfortable doing the dialation because of the RNY so they sent me to the hospital where my surgeon was.  3 days later they did the dialation and now I am able to eat.  I have to learn what my limit is all over again but things are much better now.  Its been 8 days since I have vomited when it was daily and I can eat more than 4 bites.  Maybe I wont have to kick myself in the ass for doing this surgery.

August 15, 2007
Its been 10 weeks and I feel great.  48lbs gone and everyone notices.  I still puke a few times a week from eating too fast.  I miss some foods things but learning to get over it.  I am able to do more things and wear cuter clothes.  Im hoping by Christmas I will be at my goal of 150.

July 26, 2007
I am 7 weeks out and -39lbs and -26inches.  Not bad but I had hoped for more.  I have been weighing myself everyday and today will be the last time til next Thursday.  
I am feeling good, no pain but I do get tired out fast.  I am taking all my vitimins and getting atleast 60g of protein a day.  I have decided that eating out is not my thing anymore.  Everytime I go out to eat, or sit down at home, no matter whom Im with I eat too fast and puke.  When I eat at home or on the go I take a bite here and there which makes the time between swallowing my food probably 15-20min.  6 days ago I was eating with the family or out and daily I was puking.  For 5 days now I have been eating at home little things here and there and no puking.  Yesterday I went out with my mom to lunch and sure enough I was in the restraunt bathroom puking and all the way home.  I had to lay down and take a nap so I could get the pain to stop.  
I go back to work on Monday the 30th.  Im excited because Im borred at home.  I miss the ER and my co-workers.  My job really doesn't allow time to sit and eat (although I do have a 30min break) but I have all day to graze on little things which now I relize will fit into my puking issues.  
Until next month...............

July 21, 2007
I went to my 6 week post-op appt yesterday.  They just weight you and ask if everything is going ok.  I told them that I was puking about every day or everyother day.  She wanted me to do a upper GI but I think it is because I am eating too fast. If I had a true stricture than I wouldnt be able to keep any solids down.  If I eat while running around (a bite here and there) than Im fine.  If I sit down and eat than that is when I get the chest pain and the feeling like the food is stuck and puke.  The MD said I should be able to eat at least a 1/2 sandwich at one sitting.  YEAH RIGHT!!!!  More like 3-4 bites then I'm done.  I want to wait to see if I continue to have a problem before I do another procedure.  SHOOT,  I work in an ER.  If I have a problem then I will have them take care of it.  So far I am down -36lbs.  Its been about 1lb a day for the past week.  
Going back to work on the 30th.  Cant wait.  I miss my co-workers.       I KNOW I'M A SICK INDIVIDUAL.

July 16, 2007
I think now that I was rehydrated at the hospital I'm able to start loosing again.  I am down 31lbs.  I'm very borred at home so I am going to go back to work 1 week early making it 7 weeks off.   Bladder infection is gone, thank god.  I feel much better.  But I need to make sure I drink like I'm supposed to so it doesn't happen again.  I have been eating what I want within reason.  Still no surger but I did find the surger free candy isle.....what a blessing.  I wanted soda in a bad way so I took a few sips of a diet coke and that was all I needed.  
Still puking everyday but its because I eat too fast or drink water too soon after I eat.  Someday I will learn.

July 9th, 2007
I am down 27lbs.  Feeling ok.  I thought I was getting in all my liquids but I wasn't.  I have been in the ER 2x since Sunday with kidney stones and dehydration.  Now I have a bad bladder infection.  NOT FUN AT ALL!!!!  Man do I hurt.  It started with having to pee but it wouldn't come out and having lots of pressure.  Then the pain got worse.  So I went to the ER and they gave me meds and sent me home.  2 days later I kept feeling like I had to pee and only a little would come out.  Come to find out I only had a little.  There was nothing in there to pee.  I got 2 bags of fluid and still was not toped off.  Got meds and hopefully I'm on my way to recovery.