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$%^#$*$^@#$%#$& STALL! - I was hoping and praying that I would be immune - but it just wasn't to be. My dears, I have hit the dreaded three-week stall.  Granted, mine didn't hit until three weeks and 3 ...

Antibiotics - When I went for my 2-week post-op followup (it was actually almost 3 weeks post-op because of the holiday), I begged for help with the skin issue -- the face STILL looked like Vesu...

Thank Heaven for Restriction!!! (and for the vets - Today was the first day I could experiment with 'mushy' foods...and I have been taking the advice of vets to heart.  Considering how much liquid I can drink, I was curious abou...

The Weekly Weigh-In - Week #3 - HW - 248 SW - 233.7 CW - 213.8 Total Weight Loss - 34.2lbs At this point, I have shed 33.2% of my excess weight - I know that the rate of loss is slowing down, but I am so ...

The Weekly Weigh-In - Week #2 - (Sorry for the delay in posting - data below is as of 9/7/2011, my two-week 'surgiversary'). HW - 248 SW - 233.7 CW - 218.7 Total Weight Loss - 29.3lbs Not too shabby fo...

Looks like my mother has come around! I jokingly - I adore my mother.  Absolutely ADORE her.  We have not always seen eye-to-eye, but that is what happens when you put two extremely stubbon and determined women together.  That be...

Fourteen again? - I take back EVERY bad thing I ever said about my skin.  Every complaint about every blemish, wrinkle or spot. Because this? THIS SUCKS. I was NOT prepared for the acne.  And,...

UGH - I think this is the first day (since coming home from the hospital) that I can say that I feel horrible. And, no - it isn't due to surgery.  Gotta love TOM issues -- the cramps ...

Liquids, Liquids, Liquids - I was released to progress from clear liquids to full liquids on Wednesday, August 31st.  ...and I was too scared to try it.  Why? Because I had taken the 'clear liquid' thi...

I am so sorry for the nausea that you had...that part of your surgical...

The Weigh In - Week #1 - August 31st - one week post-op HW 248 SW 233.7 CW 224.2 Total 23.8lbs In three weeks - I have managed to shed almost 10% of my highest weight.  I'm going to have to go d...

Update on Surgery - I am sorry I haven't posted by surgical experience - - but I wanted to let some time pass and get some perspective before I shared the good, the bad and the ugly. Surgery was o...

I'm off to see the wizard! - Surely my surgeon will be happy with a 14.3lb loss in two weeks, right?  I think it was the magnesium citrate that put it over the top...blech. Anyway - I am nervous, nervous,...

Counting Down - What's one thing you WISH you had - I just got home from pre-op, trying to find a comfortable typing position (silly hospital bands on my wrist)...and am staring down one ugly bottle of magnesium citrate.  I can tell...

Pre Op....Check - It's done.  Pre-Op's over.  I kinda feel let down.  I thought it was going to be a bigger deal than it was. A few dozen forms, a swipe of the credit card, a dozen vials of blood...

Aloha - There is a place on earth that I call my 'second home'.  It's the only other place on this planet where I have ever visited where I feel a connection to the land and the people.  M...

Is it just me... - ..or did anyone else obsess over little, inconsequential things prior to surgery. (and, I mean TRIVIAL stuff!) I'm trying so hard to get my work to a point where I will feel co...

(Wo)Man was not meant to live on liquids alone... - ...at least not pre-op. Let's be honest.  You're talking to a "meat and potatoes" West Texas farm girl.  Chances are, if it "Mooooo'd" regularly while it was alive....I'm more t...

Trepidation and Excitement - On June 6, 2007....I got the call that every little girl fears and prays will never come.  "Your daddy is gone." Gone.  At 56, he went to sleep one night and suffered a mass...