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Hello OH family... sorry I have been so antisocial.  A lot has been going on in my world over the past year.  Some good, some bad, but life goes on right? 
I won't bogg down my blog with all my family and job stuff etc... just fill you in on me! 

Tomorrow I will be 2 weeks post op from my mammaplasty, breast reduction/lift.  I honestly can't tell you what size I went from to what size I am now.  All I know is I owned about 3 or 4 38DD bras that I would stuff myself into and make work.  I know I was beyond that size, but not sure where you find F or G size bras, and I was always too embarrassed to look anyway.  The surgeon took over 500 grams of breast tissue/skin from each breast.  We are estimating I will be around a 38 C/D which is still buxom enough for me.  I have asked myself, "What have I done?" but I think we all question ourselves sometimes.  I am out of work recovering and most likely will go for my tummy tuck within the next 2 weeks.  Insurance covered my breast reduction, however will not cover the tummy.  So Merry Christmas to me for like the next 20 years, cause this TT has a pretty price tag!  
I am weighing 170.  Not that great, pretty much a plateau for the past year.  Looks like I was 173 at last Christmas.  But I am comfortable with my band, don't want a fill, I am at my sweet spot.  Dr says I have at least 9-10 pounds of loose skin, and we all know we can't do anything with that.  
Like I said, last year was a lot of "stuff" going on, one being a nasty injury, I tore the Iliac crest tendon on my right hip... talk about pain.  It was a good 4-5 months of healing, and to this day I sometimes feel a twinge of pain.  So lazily, I have been off the exercise train.  Time to pick up the poeces and try again.  I will use my treadmill slowly during my tummy tuck suregery recovery.  Slow and steady wins the race, right?

Anyway, Happy New Year to all of you!  Hope everyone is living life to the fullest!
Take Care, 
Kelly 

So I haven't been on here in a while... Nothing really new.  Just feeling the effects of the holidays and everyones hospitality to provide all those homemade comfort foods in sight 24/7.  I mean... I do it too.  The bowl of Christmas wrapped 3 musketeers, treasure caramels and reese bells are right on my table.  There is a difference this year though... I take 1 or 2 and I am so satisfied.  Really!  It's still as yummy as before.  But there is something gone.  And I mean that in a good way.  The urge to keep popping one chocolate after another is gone.  It's like magic to me. 
I actually think I have the hang of this lap band thing.  I'm not even a year post op... I have one more month til then.  But I have consistently been making my meals on the small 6" plates instead of the regular dinner size plates.  If I want the pumpkin pie, I serve myself a sliver instead of 1/4 of the pie.  I just KNOW that I can't eat it.  Not that I can't because it's too much fat or calories... but I physically can't eat those ginormous portions anymore.  It's a HUGE breath of fresh air!  I am smiling as I just typed that.  I feel happy and elated.  I can't remember the last time I felt this way. 
So I am weighing 173.  I sould probably be about 170 by now, but I know I have had all the rich food of the holidays more often then not lately.  I am not sweating it... the holidays will be past us in no time and my 1 year Bandiversary will be upon me!  My hubby asked me the other day how much more I want to lose.  I told him that my goal was around 145 and he seems to think that is too skinny.  He likes the fuller figure woman anyway and is afraid all of my curvy features will dissappear!  But I am actually thinking he is right a little.  I am comfortably in size 12 pants and mostly large tops.  I am thinking that 155 may be more desireable.  I just dont know.  I do plan on exploring a tummy tuck and breast lift.  I have no clue how many pounds of skin will be removed with that, but can't imagine it would be more then 5 or 6#.  So I have to do my homework. 
Anyway... Merry Christmas to all of you... Happy new year too!  Enjoy your holidays no matter what it is you celebrate!
Kelly

Imagine this... you are folding laundry... yay!  Just what I LOVE to do,  NOT!
But it's a chilly morning and I call my 10 yr old son over...
"Zach, I just pulled laundry from the dryer and it's warm, come grab some clothes to put on..."
He's so spoiled, I often bring him warm clothes in the morning before school. 
So here my 62# 10, almost 11 year old skinny boy comes happily running over to grab some clothes from the unfolded basket...
He pulls out a pair of Navy blue Adidas running pants and starts to put them on...
he says... "Wait, mom... are these mine or yours?..." 
Well low and behold, the were MINE!  MY PANTS!  My kid visually at first thought they were his! 

Ok... next is the best part for me...

he says, "You're gettin so skinny I can't tell your pants from mine mom!" 

Ok... Ok... so a son UNCONDITIONALLY Loves his mother right?  Well this was the best thing he could have said to me!  I was tearing up... my 10 yr old son has noticed my change...

I whelled up with tears, tears of joy and hugged that kid so hard! 

AMAZING moment for me!

And on another note... the scale is reading 177 the past few days... WOO HOO!!!!

I was 180 on the nose today!

Can't wait to be in the 170's... sucks that Halloween in right around the corner!  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

At first I was too embarrassed to call Dr Singh about how I was feeling.  My fill was on Friday at 1pm, and by 8pm Friday night I was feeling horrible.  (I did drink a glass of water in his office before I left) My saliva glands were just starting to get into overdrive.  I kept a cup nearby and spit in it every minute.  It was really gross...  I stopped drinking because I knew I was too tight and it would make me vomit.  My frame of mind was I can get through the weekend and see him on Monday when the office opens.  That wasn't in the plan as I had a horrible night sleep.  I did use the heating pad on my chest/belly and that seemed to help.  I attempted my morning coffee, but after about an ounce or two, I was salivating all over again.  The fluid was just not going through.  So I broke down around 2 pm on Saturday and called Dr. Singh.   He was very nice and understanding.  Unfortunatly they were in the middle of moving his office and everything was in boxes so he didn't know where any supplies were.  I told him that yes, I was uncomfortable, but not in unbearable pain.  So he said, the hospital is an option, but you will spend way too much time and money there, let me call you back and see what I can find.  So I waited...  and waited... and waited... around 7pm I started fixing some chicken noodle soup for my kids.  Well the smell of the soup over the stove made me very nauseaous and ill!  I felt like I was going to throw up.  So I called my husband to take over and headed for my bedroom, the heating pad and the telephone to call the dr back.  I couldn't wait any longer.  So I laid there a few minutes with the heating pad and tried to settle my spitting in the cup down a bit.  At 7:22pm I called Dr singh.  I had to leave a message on his voicemail.  I stayed in bed and made myself as comfortable as possible.  I had my hubby bring up my nice executive leather computer chair and reclined in that as my bed.  It kept me propped up nicely.  He called back at 9pm.  He said that he had an emergeny syringe kit at home and would meet me at his new office early in the morning for an unfill.  Well I dozed off in the computer chair only to be awoken at 11:29 pm throwing up.  It was quick, 3 heaves and I cleared all the saliva/slime out of my pouch.  WOW!  Instant relief! 
So I managed to sleep through the night pretty well... no spitting necessary.  I woke and felt better in the morning and Dr Singh called me at 8 am.  I was to meet him at 9:30.  He's a dear... really... Doctors are so busy, and to take time out of his personal time for a patient like that is admireable.  What a great caring man!  
The end result...  He took a half cc out.  Leaving me with 6cc in my band now.  He even said... guess I won't be seeing you for a long time now huh?  Pretty funny... this is probably my "Sweet Spot"  So I do have that to look forward to.  The rest of the day I drank a 12 oz coffee and some water.  I also ate 2oz of sugar free vanilla ice cream melted.  No where near my nutrition values needed... but in a day or so, I'l be back on track.  

Moral to my story...  NEVER GET A FILL ON A FRIDAY!!!!  

Thanks Dr. Singh... you're a real gem!      

I had my fill today...
One Full CC added for a total of 6.5cc.  He did take all my fluid out again and everything is in check, no leaks. 

I lost 6 pounds since my July fill.  Dr Singh said, "Not bad... could be better..."  My heart sunk!  That's the first time that he said anything along the lines that made me feel like I need to try harder and do better. 

I need to step it up... not just talk about it... but DO IT!   

I feel pretty "Full" right now, almost uncomfortably full.  I drank about 8 oz of water at the dr office and all was fine.  But I ate some cream of crab soup at home, and I just don't think it was thin enough.  Only chicken broth, cream of chicken, etc soups the rest of the weekend for me.  I don't like that heavy full feeling.  Especially when you just can't stop producing saliva and have to spit it out.  Yuck! 

Anyway, hopefully my next report has me saying i'm in the 180's and never to see the 190's again! 

FYI - I added a few new pics of me...

Anyway...

Last Thursday I weighed in at 189.8.  Hmmm sounds pretty good.  Well I kind of blew it Friday and Saturday.  We had a planned trip to South Beach for a party weekend, and that's what I did.  Wayyyyyyy too many drinks.  What empty calories...  But totally worth the fun I had with my 2 college roommates that I hadn't seen one in over 10 years!  I'm sure some people cringe at that last statement, but i'm the one that's gotta deal with the aftermath.  Anyway... moving on...
So I have been needing another little fill.  So before I went on my mini trip to South Beach, I set the appointment for this upcoming Friday.  9/26  I have been tight in the mornings and then lunch is usually pretty good to eat, and by dinner time, I can eat about 1.5-2 cups of food in one setting easily.  Sometimes I feel I could eat more too.   I know I need to work my band better with more water early in the day.  I think that would allow me to get something in for breakfast, and then maybe that would help curb my periodic snacking.  Snacks of choice are unsalted sunflower seeds in the shell, string cheese, and my vice is chick fil-a ice dream cup.  
Aside from all of that, my injured knee has been feeling much better.  I haven't had a "Give out" feeling in about 5 days or so.  So starting tomorrow morning, I am gradually getting back into my exercise.  After the kids go to school, i'm back on my wii fit to start!  

My next mini goal is 180 by October 24th.  It will be tough but if I step up my water, activity and the help of my needed fill, I think I can do it!  

Wish Me luck!    

I can taste the 180's!!!!!!

I'm 190.2 today!  Geesh.... hurry up already! 

No, i'm kidding... slow and steady wins the race.  I would have to say that I think my weight loss of 46.8 pounds in less then 8 months is good.  If I continue to lose at this pace, I should be down approx 60-65# by my one year bandiversary.  And that would put me near the 170 mark for the new year! 

New Year... New me!  Im optimistic!

Yesterday's fill went efortlessly.  Dr. Singh is a pro!
Somehow I had my cc's documented in my notebook wrong.I thought I only had 3.5cc.    I had 4.5cc in already.  I questioned that to him, and he tested it by removing it all.  And Yep, it was 4.5cc.  So there's also good news that I have no leak!  He himself said he has Never seen a leak since he's been doing this.  That's promising. 
So he gave me a full 1cc, bringing me to 5.5cc in my band. 
I am on liquids through tomorrow evening.  I think i'll just wait til Thursday to try any solids. 

He congratulated me on my progress, I lost 10# since he last saw me.  I know most of that was in April, early May.  I know I've been at that standstill.  But nonetheless, with the Vegas trips, multiple birthday parties, weddings etc... I've done Fantastic! 

I am looking forward to this fill and dropping some more weight!  Would Love to see some of my old clothes fit again.  Many 12/14's calling for me to wear them! 

I'll keep you posted!
Signed, Happy Kelly

Well, not sure if it's just that i'm completely dehydrated from this agonizingly HOT weeked of 95 degree heat! 

Or the scale wasn't balanced or what...

But today said..... drum roll please!!!!!!!!!






198.8#

Hope the Doc is pleased !  Fill set for 2:30 today!