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WOW the weight is coming off fast!!! It feels so good to see my clothes getting bigger and able to get rid of my "fat" clothes. It feels good to be able to go to festivals and not have to worry about if there will be somewhere to sit. I can go into stores without riding carts. I can fit into booths at restaurants now! I can paint my toe nails now. This surgery has changed my life! I wish i would have had it long time ago.

So far i have lost 100 lbs from my highest weight! I have lost 68 lbs just since my surgery May 1, 2013.

I couldn't be more happier with my life than i am now.

hey family and friends.....just wanted to give a update on how i have been doing. yesterday June 1st was 1 month since my surgery. I just weighted myself and i am down 41lbs since my surgery total of 74lbs since my highest. I feel AMAZING!!! I walk more and have found clothes are getting to big. I even walked around my neighborhood yesterday. Anyone thinking of having the surgery and just unsure about it. Let me tell ya it is the best thing i have every did for myself. My weight had taken over my life. I was miserable, lifeless, just down right boring. Now i do thing with my kids and they like to do thing with me. I cant wait till the Belmont county fair so i can go. That is one thing i haven't been to in years.

so surgery went great! I had no problems....i did have a small hernia and she fixed it. I was in a little bit of pain but i had the button for pain meds LOL so it was good. They got me up and walking around that night, now that was a little hard but i did it. next day I got to start my liquids my 1st meal was beef broth, blue Gatorade and it was delish! More walking around at the hosp then i got to go home on Friday afternoon. I felt great! I even stopped at Walmart and did some shopping (with help from my husband) I did lay around and sleep alot when i got home but hey they did say take it easy. So i have been drinking my liquids with no problems. It has been 8 days now since my surgery and they only problems i am having is diarrhea (which i can understand bc i am intaking nothing but liquid) but it is really a pain in the butt I have already had 2 accidents. And the other problem is my pain meds are gone and all the dr said to take was liquid children Tylenol....that don't take the pain away! The pain i am having is a sharp stabbing pain in the upper right side like where my stomach is. I am thinking i just did to much yesterday. I started to get back into the house work and i think to much stretching and getting the clothes out of the washer. so my advice to everyone take it easy for a few weeks. so that is were i am at now i go see my PCP today then Dr. Courcoulus on the 16th that is prob when she will put me on puree food....i cant wait!

So since my last post i had to go back to the dietitian one last time bc my surgery got moved to May 1st. I was down to 370 I was soooo happy. Had all my pre-op done and then i get the news that my insurance was going to pay for the surgery but not the hosp i was having it at. So Dana (addm. assistant for dr. Courcoulas) was on it and called the insurance company tons of times. Well my April 10th went by .....April 18th went by...then April 30th came about. I got a call from Dana @ 11am and it was to tell me that they approved me to have it done by Dr. Courcoluas @ Magee in Pittsburgh. I was sooooooooo happy but had to get my but in gear. 2 kids and a husband to get together and plan the next 3 days out bc i will be out of commission. I was so stressed. But here it is 10:35 pm and everything is ready to go.

I went to the last of the dr.'s today for a clearance. It was the Lung dr. So everything is done and all i have to do is wait for the "OK" from the insurance. I would be having the surgery in 2 days butttttttttttttttt someone "forgot" to tell me i need to see a lung and heart dr for clearance. Owell it is done and i am on my way to a skinner me. Speaking of that i have lost a total of 36 lbs since i started this. And let me tell you i feel good! I put on a pair of capris yesterday that has not fit me for years. It felt sooooo goodI will prob loose it when i start to loose the BIG lbs at a time.

So as of now my surgery will be May 1st. I cant wait!

I got the horrible news today that my surgery will have to be moved because all my testing isn't complete and all the dr's clearance isn't done. OK well on my 1st visit should have all that been given to me to get done? I have done everything they wanted me to do and 2 weeks before my surgery they want me to get in to see a heart and lung dr? I have been waiting a very long time for this surgery like 9 years I need this surgery and the way things are going it looks like it isn't meant to be. My husband took his vacation all that week so he wouldn't have to miss any work, I had everyone set up to deal with my kids. I am just very upset and disappointed....yes i know i am going to have the surgery but it was stressful enough to get everything organized now i have to redo everything over

well since my highest weight of 410 i have lost 30 lbs.......I never knew i would have sooo much motivation to loose it. I had to go see a blood dr bc of my blood clot issues. Well the one local sent me to a specialist in Pittsburg. I went yesterday and they are going to put me on Lovenox shots 5 days before and after. Then I will resume my Coumadin after that.

I am going to Pittsburgh 2 times this week and 2 times next week but it will all be worth it in the end. I am having soo many emotions going through my head with my surgery getting so close. I am scared just bc any surgery is dangerous. I am worried that i will fail at this and not loose the weight. But i am also happy bc i will feel better and able to do more things with my family and kids. I am also worried that i am not going to tone up as i loose. I dont want to have the dumpy look or be flabby to where i have to have a tummy tuck. I guess i need to start exercising as soon as i can after surgery.

Well i have  to go see a heart dr and my dietitian on Wednesday and have a PFT test done on my lungs. That is another trip to Pittsburgh.

Well it has been a while since i wrote on here but i am happy to say I have lost 27 lbs since my highest weight. I cant wait for April 10th to get here. I am excited to see a pound or 2 come off in a week i bet i will be ecstatic when i loss big after the surgery.

So i have had more leg pain and the dr thinks it is from walking more. The leg pain i am having at night she thinks is from my back pain. So i just have to take a pain pill for now. But the problem i am having is my legs only hurt and are very sensitive when the swelling is  down and i have ankles. When they are swelled they don't hurt as bad. I hope all this goes away when i loose a good bit of weight.

So about 1 month till my surgery!!!!! i am sooooo excited i thought this day would never come. I haven't heard anything from the dr's office about the insurance yet but i meet all the requirements and i have done all the required testing and all was good. Well i guess no news is good news

So i went to my Dietitian on 1-22-13 and in just 2 weeks from the 1st visit to my surgeon i have lost 8 lbs. so since i started this...i mean really started watching what i was eating i have lost 8 lbs. It was the best feeling in the world. So here i am on my 3rd week of this diet and i am getting really bored with it. I really dont feel like eating junk food or candy....i just  feel like i am going to look like a veggie LOL I try to eat lots of veggies rather than meat. I am soo sick of the salads i feel really sick after i eat them. But that is all i can have. It just isnt the salad it is all veggies. Is there anything else i can do? My dietitian did tell me i could have cottage cheese, cereals,yogurt  for breakfast so that is a plus! but just eating  veggies and meat is getting old. This is the time where i say the hell with this diet and go off of it. I want to stick to it bc i see it works but i cant keep feeling sick after i eat.

I had my monthly dr visit on Thur. and i have lost 10 lbs in one month! wooooohoooo i can do this! I was sooo happy with myself. Now i have to go to Pittsburgh on Tues i really hope i have lost compared to their scale. I have been eating some fruit but i think my problem was i was eating to much of the wrong food. I love veggies and i eat soooo much of them now. I eat a average size of meat and for a snack i will eat fruit and i know staying away from the carbs and POP is a big part of my weight loose I would fill my cup up with ice and take 2 cans of pop and have one gone in no time so i would pour the 2nd can in and i never really thought about it but OMG the calories and sodium i was taking in. I have to stay away from sodium it really puts the water weight on me. So that is the latest on me and hopefully i will have even better news with my apt in Pittsburgh on Tues