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I received an email saying congratulations on my 2 year anniversary.  I can't believe I actually forgot.  I guess that says a lot.  My life has completely changed.  I am still focused on maintaining a healthy life.  I still think about my food choses on a daily basis.  I am now looking forward but I will nevery forget what got me to highest wieght ever. 

Behaviors I still do:

I still do not drink while eating even for an hour after I eat.
I (for the most part) choose healthy foods.
I still mainly eat solid proteins.... I love steak.

History of the weight lost...

January 09 - 6 month post op... I hit doctors goal at 159.  So I lost 70% of weight need to loose.  So I was down approx..70 pounds.

July 09 - 1 year Post Op... I hit my weight loss goal of 137!!!  Woo Hoo

July 10- 2 year Post Op... I am still at my goal of about 135. I wear a size 4 for the most part.  Amazing!!

In between July 09 and July 10 I lost more weight but I put some of it back on... thank goodness.  I had lost a little too much weight.  With the help of my diatician I put some back on and am maintaning with adding healthy fat into my diet.

If you are looking to loose your weight.  I wish you the best and hope you find a good diatician and surgeon to help guide you.  All I can say is listen to them.  Don't snack.  I am so thankful that I was able to break that habit for the most part.  I think it is esential to change the habits while you are not "hungry".

Where has the time gone.....Where has the weight gone.... I've lost 64 lbs since my surgery in July.  I'm wearing a size 12 jean and size 8 top.  I've alway had a big booty.  Maybe the next 20 lbs lost will be from my butt...lol.  We actually most of my weigh was carried in my hips so I've feel like I've had a 64 lbs child unwrapped from my hips.  The other day I walked into a branch where the staff had not seen me since I had surgery and it was sooo much fun.  They couln't believe how good I looked.  I have to admit that I ate it up.  I even did a cat walk for them without my blazer...lol  Anyway it's been fun.

I have survived and thrived 3 weeks now.  The last week has been the best.  I feel good, I'm eating, and I've started exercising.  Well for the exercise I just started a few days ago and I'm not doing anything difficult.  I have a treadmill but me and the treadmill are NOT friends. So I decided an exercise bike may work and it has.  See I'm lazy and I wanted to exercise but I want to also sit down.  The only issue is my behind hurts.  I have recently had issues with the vitiams and water but I picking back up my torch and trudging on.  I've officially lost 19 lbs.  Woo Hooo and we're just getting started.

Two weeks yeah!!!  I am down 16 pounds .... woo hoo! I am feeling more and more like myself.  I have started eating some protien and taking B12.  It has started helping me have more energy.  I'm not as exhausted in the evenings as I have been.  I still have to watch that I don't bulp big drinks of water.  

I have experienced a relatively easy time since my surgery.  I do contribute that to my surgeon.  I wanted to note couple of the things that were different from what I have read online. So hear we go with my experience.....

1.  I read that you have to drink some awful drink the day after surgery...I didn't recall this experience so I asked my nurse and she said something like ... the surgeon injects you with the die right after surgery and checks for leaks when you are still out of it.  Cool...no gunk!!

2.  I have read a lot of people's profiles and they seem to be drinking a lot of protien drinks, powders and other stuff in order to meet a centain quota of protein.... my experince was different...The first two weeks were called ketosis. The nutritionist said one could live 8 weeks with out food or protien but just not water.  She also stated that if we needed protien when we were weak or faint to drink some.   So I have been drinking  64 oz of water a day.  I tried drinking the protein everyday but I don't really care for them.   

3.  I have seen people complaining about have a lot of acid.  My doctor sent me home with a perscription of Protonix.  I have forgotten to take it and have noticed the frothy acidy feeling.  But otherwise I take the Protonix and don't have a problem. 

Well that has been my first 2 weeks in a nutshell. 

I am down 14 pounds... thrilled and disappointed both. I am thrilled because I could not have lost this weight as quickly as this without the WLS. Disappointed because I was thinking I would lose 20 pounds in 2 weeks. Well I suppose I'm going to have to work out if I want to lose that fast. LOL crazy thought!

I am so ready to start eating food. So today I did have some tuna and it help for my head hunger. I figured I would be able to in a couple of days so why not try it. It went well...I was afraid I would throw up but I dind't yeahhh!

I can't believe it's only been a week from my surgery.  Today I started back to work..... wooo hooo.... It was easier than I anticipated.  Given that I'm still in training and they were really easy on me.  I still feel a little "flighty" but it's definitely better than it has been in last few days.  I've not been at home so I can't weigh but I was down 11 pounds last I checked. 

Well I'm still doing pretty good.  I am really tired.  I am not hurting which is still suprising.  If I thought anything would be a problem it would be pain, but suprisingly I am fatigued.  My brain says I'm good I can just go about my business but my body is saying rest.  I guess it really shouldn't be that suprising considering I am only on liquids.  I still can not believe I haven't ate any food in more than 7 days.  I am not hungry but my brain says ooohhh but food sounds so good.  It's a good thing to have this time to retrain my brain and teach myself to eat better. 

I am still recovering really well.  I have very minimal pain nothing that Tylenol will not take care of.  I have noticed when my bladder is full my stomach tends to start hurting but that is easily relieved. I had my first outing yesterday.  I went to dinner and to see the theatre production of Phantom of the Opra.  My dinner consisted of broth and my friends had a lot of questions.  Since I have been very open about the surgery I answered them and it went very smoothly.  I was concerned about becoming fatigued, but I had no problems with it.  I was able to watch the show and enjoy every minute of it.  

I have already lost 7 pounds!! I can't believe that it is really happening.  So far so good.  I can't wait to see the scale.  I am offically a scale junky.

Well I had my sleeve July 2, 2008.  Everything went really well.  It's hard to believe that I only have 25% of my stomach left (but I have the bandages to show for it).  Dr Walton did a fabulous job with me.  I stayed in the hospital overnight and the staff was wonder.  I am so excited to start this new journey in life.  I anticipated a much harder recorvery but was pleasantly suprised with minimal pain.  I didn't even get a sore thought, thanks to Dr Shiply who was my anesthesiologist.  I can't believe I haven't had anything to eat in 3 days and I'm not even hungry.