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Im 18 days out and I feel great. I have more energy now than ever. Still need some short naps, but that's only cause I am moving so much. Walking 2+ miles a day and really enjoy the boost of cofidence this has given me. I have had a few bad moments, but they were bad moments I caused. Twice tried to drink my protein shake and vitamins down to quickly, was on the go and tried to hurry. Something I won't be doing again, it had me laid out on the couch for 30 minutes while I waited for the pain to go away. I go back to work on the 3rd of September and very happy I took the time off to heal. I am a very bad workaholic so this was a good rest for me. It seems like my weight loss is going pretty slow, only 10lbs to date, but I can't complain much because I just feel so dang good and the clothes are fitting so much better. I am pretty comfortable in an 18 now. Had a girl from work come the other day and gave her all my larger clothes. She was in heaven with the new wardrobe, but that was about 90% of my closet. I have some great friends who have donated me their 18's and my mom actually started losing with me so she was able to give some clothes also. Just happy things have went so well.

Well I am now going on 10 days post op and feeling great. It has been a very tough 10 days..but no complications. Surgery went well and they were able to take out my gall bladder also (I had gallstones). The minute I woke up from surgery I was in an amazing amount of pain and was very nauscious. I looked at my mom and said "What the hell did I do?" They tried 3 different things to help the nausea and finally the 3rd one worked and it knocked me out for most the day. Finally by around 8 or 9 that evening I was able to drink some water and get up to go to the bathroom. I was pretty good after that, walked about every 2 hours until I was released and got in about 50oz of water before I left the hospital. I was great all day the first day home, probably so drugged I didn't know any better. Than the second day home was awful, horrible pain again. It seemed like every other day was a bad one the first week. My one week appointment was great, I am healing well and was very excited about adding protein. Finally some energy. Tomorrow I am going to start my walking again, of course in small increments. I have done short walks around the block and stuff but nothing too lengthy. BTW the morning of surgery I weighed in at 259lbs and at my week appointment I was 252. So total from January when I started my weight loss I am down 55lbs and I now have 98lbs. left to go. My goal is 154, it puts my BMI at normal 24.9.  

Well the final countdown is here. I can barely stand it. I am so excited.
This is my last night at work and then I will be gone for 1 month. My home computer is on the outs so I may not post for awhile but looking forward to giving good results in a month! I am down to 261! Yipee! 

Well only 4 days to go!  Im just a little excited. I wish I could lose another 8 lbs because I've been stuck the last 3 days and really wanted to lose 20 lbs with the clear liquids. I won't sweat it though. I have been doing a little shopping. Have bought a few size 18 since Im now pretty much in a 20, which is great down from a 24. A few things from the clearance rack and some great finds at the thrift store. Don't want to spend too much, hoping I wont be in an 18 long!  I have this nesting urge the closer I get till surgery and have been cleaning and organizing the house. I cleaned out my closet yesterday and got rid of 3 bags of clothes that already are too big! Yippee! 
Trying to stay focused and not have the last minute jitters! 
I have only 2 days left of work...THANK GOD! I just did a 17 day stretch so a month off will do me good!

I had my final appointment with Dr. Oh. Everything is great and I am ready to have my surgery. I start my clear liquids tomorrow! Ugh! Looking forward to the rapid weight loss! Im on my way!

So it's been a rough week. Spent 4 days on a trip with my family at the beach. It was a great trip and pretty relaxing. I decided that I was going to try to get off coffee while I was on the trip. I had tried a few times and the withdrawls were too awful. I did it! I am 100% coffee free, I am tired but doing ok. I did the grocery shopping for the trip, you should have seen me at the grocery store. The last supper syndrom kicked in....it was horrific. I had ding-dongs, cupcakes, cookies, crackers, candy....pretty much whatever fit in the cart I grabbed. I laughed at myself but continued to pile it on. Once we got on the trip it was on, I stuffed and stuffed and stuffed. I have worked so hard to lose the 30lbs and then I probably gained 10lbs back. It sucks! I can feel it in my gut. I know part of it is emotional and part of it is anxiety about starting the clear liquids. I am trying to not be to hard on myself but I have to say I am dissappointed. I know afterwards I will need to be able to deal with this emotional crap in some other way. 
The count down is on though....only 16 days away! I did do my hospital nutrition class today. That went well. I have one more appointment  with Dr. Oh and then my pre-op appointment with the hospital.

 

So today I had my appointment with an Internist and he evaluated all of my tests (EKG, Pulmonary Function Test, Ultrasound, Etc. ) and said everything looked Great! So I have exactly 6 weeks today and I am very excited. One step closer to the snowboard and parasailing.

I recieved a call from Tina today at Dr. Oh's office saying that I was approved for surgery and given a date of August 2. What a relief! Very excited and can't wait for my new life to start!