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It is official!  I hit Onederland today.  I was 199.2 on the scale this morning! 

In the past month, my inches lost have slowed down some.  I only lost 6.25 inches, but am still down a total of 49.75 inches in 4 months! 
Here are my stats this month:

Arm    - 1           Total -1.5
Bust   -.5                     -7
Muffin - 1.5                 -9
Waist -.5                     -8
Hips   -1.75                -8
Thigh- No Loss         -3
Calf -No Loss            -1.25
Shoulders-No Loss -8.75
Knee - No Loss         -1.5
Ankle-no Loss           -.5
Under Bust -1            -1.25

I am feeling good.  I am in a size 18 and 202 lbs.  I am the same size I was when my husband and I started dating. The smallest size he has ever seen me in is a 16, which was @ 185 lbs.  I can't wait for him to be able to see me smaller than that! I will be posting 4 month pictures soon.  Stay tuned!!! 

May -28 lbs (8lbs were before surgery, still a loss and I am counting it!)
June-12lbs-had a 2 weeks stall
July - 11 lbs-had another 2 weeks stall
August-16lbs

Hello everyone!  Tomorrow I will be 3 months out.  I am down 60 lbs total, but 52 lbs since surgery.  I was told that my good cholesterol is a little low and my thiamin is high.  Other than that, my labs are good.  I don't have a copy but can share stats if anyone is interested, once I get them.  I am down 43.5 inches. These are my inches lost, of what I have measured:
                        This month                   Total
arm -                0                                      .5
bust-                1.25                              6.5
muffin-             1.5                                7.5
waist-               2                                   7.5
hips-                 1.75                             6.25
thigh-                1.75                             3
calf-                   0                                  1.25
shoulders-         1                                  8.75
knee-                 0                                  1.5
ankle-                0                                    .5
under bust--  .25 (I just started measuring this one, which I should have done from the beginning).
Total for the month 9.5                3 month Total 43.5

Non-scale successes:
I can sit with my legs crossed now.
I can sit indian style on the floor with my children.
My towel closes all the the way, when I wrap it around me after my shower.
I can wear pantyhose without my inner thighs being chafed.
I am starting to like wearing heels again...they are a lot more comfortable with less weight on my body.
I am getting the door held open for me more often (from other people besides my husband).

I will be 12 weeks out tomorrow and no longer qualify for weight loss surgery.  My BMI is 34.7. 

My weight loss so far:

May -28 lbs (8lbs were before surgery, still a loss and I am counting it!)
June-12lbs-had a 2 weeks stall
July - 11 lbs-had another 2 weeks stall
August-16lbs
I have just started on the Couch to 5K running plan.  Running seems to have boosted my weight loss!

Age? No!!!! Pounds!!!!    8 of the 50 were right before surgery, but a pound is a pound and I am claiming it!  So the total is 50 and after wls 42!  I started out almost busting out of a size 24 and am in an 18 now!  Thursday will be 10 weeks since surgery.

While researching my wls, I heard a lot about how wls puts stress on a marriage.  My thoughts on that ---I think if you have a good marriage, it makes it better.  If you have a bad marriage, it makes it worse.  My husband is really enjoying the extra energy I have from the pounds being gone!  I am also able to get my big butt up and do more with the kids.    Every moment is precious and I don't want their lives to go by and me miss out, because of lack of energy.

Goal weight.....hmmm....I set a goal at 140.  I am starting to wonder if I set a realistic goal.  Yes, of course I would love to be at 140, but is it realistic?  Would I be too skinny? Can I obtain it...of course I can, but do I want to???  I am 5'6" and 3/4.  Yes, I would round up to 5'7", but I slouched in the doctor's office, to make sure I would qualify for surgery.  Guilty as charged!!!  I didn't put sandbags in my bra, though!!!  I saw that post and nearly fell out laughing!!!  That is classic!
There I go chasing rabbits again!  Back to my previous thought...I have had 3 kids and my body is a lot different now than it used to be.  i don't think I am going to concentrate so much on a goal weight, but more on the size I am in.  I think (but I have the right to change my mind) that I would be happy in a size 9/10, at the very lowest a 7/8.  Whatever the weight may be at those sizes.  If I got any smaller than that, it may look awkward on my bone structure.  WOW!!!  I NEVER thought like this before wls!!!!  I never saw these sizes as attainable!  It is funny...when I go shopping now, I usually by pants that are too tight for me, because I know they will fit soon.  The ones that fit, I stay away from, because I know that in a few weeks I won't be able to wear them! I did that one time during one of my "diet" phases and never made it into them!

I am almost 7 weeks post op and am feeling great!  I am down 33 lbs.  since my RNY and 41 lbs., since my highest weight.  I did my measurements pre-op and at 1 month,  and this is what they were:

Arm            15.25     15        -.25
Bust            50          45.5    -4.5
Muffin          51.5      48.5     -3.0
Waist          45.5      42        -2.5
Hips           56.5       54        -1.5
Thigh          31         30.5      -.5
Calf             18         17         -1.0
Shoulders 49.75    44.5     -5.25
Knee          17.5       16.5     -1.0
Ankle          9.5         9.5       -0

Total inches lost = 19.5

I will take more measurements in another week, when I am 2 months out. I am still having trouble getting everything in that I am supposed to, but getting better everyday!  I am doing well with eating, but still learning my pouch.  It seems to be a little sensitive and reminds me of it every so often!  

Yesterday was my first "official" day back at work and it went well.  

I am so glad I am allowed to pick up my little man now.  I missed holding him!!!!




 

I am 2 weeks and 2 days post op today.  Surgery went well.  I am not going to lie, though.  I felt like poop afterwards!  I expected that, though.  C'mon, this is a major surgery.  Your intestines are rerouted and your stomach is stapled.  It is going to hurt.  My husband was chuckling at me a little after surgery.  I asked him what I had done to myself...a little episode of Buyer's Remorse.  After that, he ended up setting his alarm on his cell phone, for the next time I was allowed to have pain meds.  That was a life saver.  When you try and space it out too much, the pain ends up out of control and takes a lot longer to control. My advice...take the pain meds when you are allowed to have them.  It makes no sense to be miserable, if you don't have to be.  That is what they are there for.

I had my surgery on Thursday, May 15th @ Mayo Clinic Hospital.  I was discharged from the hospital on Sunday.  Once I got home, I started on full liquids and tried to put protein in everything.  That ended up being a major turn off and food and I just didn't get along.  I wanted nothing to do with soup, cream of wheat, pudding, etc.  I ended up having to call the doctor to get something for nausea.  Once I went to pureed, I guess my body wasn't quite ready for it, because I had the dry heaves and ended up moving back to liquids for another couple of days.  As of today, I am doing pretty good.  I have been walking the boys to school in the morning.  Pain is still on the left side, but is a little better everyday.  Still have some fatigue.  If I am standing in one place, I get lightheaded.  It is kind of weird....I can walk and be fine, but if I stand in one place, I get dizzy and have to sit down.  

I am missing not being able to pick up Carson.  Poor little guy is cutting 8 teeth at one time and I can't pick him up to console him.  He will climb up in the chair with me and hand me a book, though. Terry will lift him on my lap at night and I have been rocking him, too.  At least I get to love on him then!

Corey and Kyle have been a big help with everything.  I am really proud of them.  

I have to say that my husband has been an absolute doll, through all of this.  Better than I even expected.  He stayed at the hospital with me the whole time and helped me with everything and since we have been home, he has done everything for the kids and taking care of the laundry, cooking, etc.  Of course, the house isn't as clean as I would like it to be right now, but hey....I cannot complain.  The most important things are being done.  I try to do a little at a time to help out, but I am not quite where I need to be yet.  I know my body is still healing and I will be back to my normal activities pretty soon.  

I am down 20 lbs. and at my first stall.  Hopefully the stall will pass quickly.  I am not sweating it, though.  I am thankful for the 20! 

I have been waiting so long to se this, I had to post it!

I just got back from Nuclear Medicine.  I am now officially glowing.  They injected the adenosin (sp) for 4 minutes and monitored me.  For those of you who don't know, it stresses your heart (and lights up everything on the inside, so they can see it. --Bekah was so kind to enlighten me on it, when I first found out about it.  My heart was racing so hard, I felt like I was running from an attacker.  Then came the heavy breathing, numbness in the lips and fingers, I felt like I was going to vomit at any minute, shoulder pain---then when I was at the point where I felt like I couldn't take it anymore, I heard this sweet sound of someone announcing "You have less than a minute left". Then another sweet sound "30 seconds".  Then another "less than 10 seconds".  And all of a sudden...."okay, we have stopped injecting the medicine.  Everything should start easing up on you."  Within a minute, all symptoms subsided the only thing I had was lightheadedness, which I would gladly take over the rest of that stuff.  I know why they make you fast for 4 hours before the test.  If I would have eaten anything, it wouldn't still be with me!  They let me go have breakfast and had me come back in an hour for the pictures.  They had me lay still on my back for 15 minutes, while taking pictures then on my stomach for 15 minutes worth of more pics.  

I get to go back tomorrow for more fun! Detect the sarcasm?LOL.  Actually...tomorrow shouldn't be too bad.  They are taking pictures of my heart in a resting state, so I just have to lay there.  I still have to fast, though.  I also have my pulmonary function test tomorrow.  Monday I have labs, xrays, and my PAME (Pre-Anesthesia Medical Exam).  Tuesday I have a pre-op group class.  Wednesday I have a pre-op appt. w/ surgery and next Thursday is the day!  One week from today!

I went there this morning in sweats, a t-shirt and tennies.  From what my itenerary said, it looked like I had to do the treadmill, but I didn't.  

Hope everyone is doing well!!!!

Tonya