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I am such a slacker. Summer time is here and now that the cold weather has moved out for a while, I no longer hibernate. I spend a lot of time at the beach, plus I started grad school which is keeping me pretty busy. Thus, I have not updated in a while and laziness plays a factor too. In just a few days I’ll be at the 4 month mark. I have lost a total of 54lbs and I am close to being under the 180lb mark. I weighed 180 this morning…YAY!!!!!! I think I was 7 year old the last time I weighed in the 180’s….ha ha.    The weight loss has slowed quiet a bit. I am lucky to lose 1 lb a week. I think that is pretty normal. My hair is falling out at a steady pace, luckily I have a head full and it is not too noticeable. It might actually be an improvement besides the fact that my drain is filled up and since I freak over hair, my husband has to clean it out.    I am doing great though, still no regrets and there isn’t anything that I can not eat. Though, I haven’t tried rice because I have heard horror stories. I hope everyone is well. I plan to take some pictures tonight and at my BFF’s request, I’ll be in the white tank and shorts ha ha. 

So this is going to be short because I am sleepy, but i promised my bestest friend that I would post pics tonight, so I thought i would give a quick update.  I had my three month check up today and I am down exactly 50lbs.  I am still going to the gym in the mornings and working it out.  I am slack some mornings I must admit, but I do my best....well my best when the alarm goes off at 5:15.  Well that's all i have for tonight. 

Have a fabulous week!!!!

As of today, I am down 48lbs.  I would say that is pretty awesome!!!!  The weight loss has definetly slowed down, but I'm good with that.  I have started going to the gym in the mornings which I thought I would die from, but turns out, it is not sooooo bad.  All my clothes are too big which makes getting dressed for work a challenge.  I'll take baggy clothes over tight clothes any day. 

Nothing else exciting is really going on.  I struggle daily making the right decisions about food, I am trying to get all my protein from food, and my water intake....well it needs to be better.  I have no problems eating, unless i don't chew well or eat 1 bite too much and then I am running to the toilet!!!!  Puking isn't the worst thing I guess,  given the amout of food, its over pretty quickly.  According to the BMI chart, I need to lose another 68lbs.  That is pretty rediculous.  I am trying for another 48.  I don't want to be a "skinny" chick. 

One funny thing.....i'm loosing my boobs and my nipples are looking for the ground.  I need a new bra I think.  The old ones are not holding the girls up to well. 

I hope everyone is well and I'll be adding more pictures tonight.  YAY!!

I have been M.I.A for a few weeks and please allow me to explain.  First, I will start out by saying that i am a 29 year old women, married...with child, a job, a life and so on and so forth.  Well a few weeks ago...well more than a few weeks, it was about 6 weeks ago, a friend of mine brought me a book.  It was to keep me entertained while I recovered.  Well the pain medicine was too good, i never opened it.  Well this book grabbed me one night about a week and half ago. I have not been able to lay it down, nor the three books that came after the first one.    Well, now that I have explained myself, i will tell you what book I'm referring to that has kept me out of the reality of my life.   The TEEN saga "Twilight"  Yes yes, i know pretty sad, but guys.....I am hooked and I am looking for my own vampire boyfriend.  I have my husbands permission of course.  LOL. 
Now that I have explained myself, i will tell you that I am doing great.  I have lost 39lbs, I am finally below 200 and still have no regrets.  I will say that eating is not as much fun as it use to be and that it takes all my concentration to do it right.  If I don't concentrate while I'm eating then I tend to not chew enough and puke...oh yes fun times!!!!!
other than that, everything is great.  well, that is all I have for tonight.  I will try to be a little more consistent.  If you guys have not read Twilight, I so recommend it, but prepare to be out of touch with reality and obsessed with a vampire named Edward Cullen.  He is soooooooo dreamy and prefect,  besides the vampire part!!

Oh, I posted some new pics.  I have trouble seeing the change, but maybe you guys can. 

I am in the middle of watching CSI with my daughter but i thought i would type a little ditty about my fabulous week of finding new food and getting my fat ass back in the gym after being absent for about 29 years.  So from the beginning I knew that protein shakes and i would never be friends...I tried to like them, but.......it was a no go.  Now that I am in the pureed/mushy on the verge of regular food I have found protein bars that are fantastic!!!!  I chew them up to slobbery slop and yummy!!!They are Atkins Advantage.  I have the the peanut and fudge today.  16 grams of protein.  It was chocolatey goodness!!!!  Of course i could only eat half, the other half i ate later in the afternoon, but that was a while after i had lunch.  For lunch a ham and cheese lunchable.....again chewed to absolute mush and spit and 19 grams of protein.  What else with food, it seemed like such a big deal when i started to type.  Well next on my list of fabulous shit....I  started the gym Monday.  Of course I can not do any weight training, but I did walk 2 miles on the treadmill.  I forgot have good you feel after wards, so Tuesday I went back for round two.  Good times!!!!  Well that is about all excitement I can stand for one night.  A little update.  I have lost 14lbs since surgery 3 weeks ago tomorrow and 26 total.  The weight loss is a littlllle slow, but I am a light weight so it will be much slower.  Hey on the bright side, maybe I will not have sooooo much loose skin.  Either way, I am going to go back to watching CSI and drinking my Lipton's Diet Decaf Lemon Tea......that was the other thing......that tea is reallllllly good.  It hits the spot when I am craving a sweet tea from McDonald's or my mama's.  Night Y'all!!  Oh and one more thing......I'm going to post more pictures tomorrow night.  My 3 week pics

So its been 2 whole weeks since having my insides rearranged and i feel stupendous, ha ha ha, i love that word!!!!! I went back to work on Wednesday.  I decided to go back one day early because i was feeling sooooo good, but let me tell ya, I was super duper sleepy by 2pm.  It was a little better today.  I will admit, i am ready for the weekend.  We are having a girls night Saturday night and I am so looking forward to that.  We do this about twice a year since we are all soooooo spread out.

I got my staples out Monday and started my pureed diet. I'm still learning about my pouch.  It seems as it is sleeping most of the time.  No problems at all with it.  Although 3 sips of water and i feel like I'm going to bring it back up.  I am trying to keep up with what I'm eating each day and I do believe that me and Crystal from WA are about to start ourselves a friendly competition.  She lost 12 pounds in 6 day!!!!!!!!!!  So stoked for her, but i have some catching up to do!!!  Tonight instead of mashed potatoes I opted for chicken broth.  I am going to catch up.... the competition whore  is about to merge her ugly head..LOL

Weight loss has slowed a bit, I've only lost 1lb in the past 4 days.  I did start my period, so I'm off now and we will see what the scale says tomorrow. 

Lastly, pictures will be taken tonight to mark my 2 week "surgiversary"....stay tuned.

Day 10...wow!!!  I can't believe its already been 10 days.  That is what you are suppose to say right. ha haha, but let me tell you I've been bored out of my mind!!!  The thing is, I feel completely fine.  I felt so fine that i went to walmart yesterday and walked around and I drove around town lastnight for a few hours with my girlfriends.  We were looking for apartments for one of them.  So, here I am 4 days away from going back to work, 1 day from getting my staples out...THANK God!!!!!!  Itchy little suckers!!!!!!!!!!!!! oh oh oh and the most important part........i get to start pureeds in the next couple of days!!!!!!!!!  I am going to have some mashed potatoes, with shredded cheese, and ranch dressing for my first meal...... I can hardly wait!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I am still getting my vitamins in, but they are horrible....chalky......ewwww,  not quite getting my fluids in, but I am getting my protein in.  YAY for me!!!!

What else?!?!?!  Oh yeah, I'm not sure exactly how to calculate how much weight i've lost because...I left my house day of surgery weighing 222, came home weighing 234(fluids..lots of fluids) and now today I weigh 212.  Either way, I'm content with how much it is, whatever it is.  Well that is all from now.  I am sure my next post will have something to with having trouble getting below 200. LOL
Lots of people seem to stall at 200.  We'll see how it goes!

So last Thursday I had RNY surgery.  I hate to say this because it feels as if i'm bragging, especially to those of you that read this and had complications, but I will be honest.   This has been much easier than I ever anticipated it could be.  I had to be at the hospital at 5:15am last Thursday.  THe whole process once i got there was pretty uneventful.  I didn't have to wait.  I was taken straight back, hooked up to an IV, peed in a cup, had the leg tights and pressure cup thing put on my legs and then i said "see ya later" to my husband and my mom and i was wheeled back to the surgery waiting  room.  I had numerous people stop by and speak, the staff was awesome!!!!!  I was wheeled into the surgery room and was asked to move over to the table and that was it.  The next thing i remember is waking up to my mom and my husband.  I was sore, but the morphine took care of that.  i slept the first 24 hours away in between the awesome nursing staff waking me up to take vitals such.  The only complication which really wasn't a complication was my O2 stats would drop when i fell asleep.  I kept saying to the nurse that i was holding my breath.  Either way,  i had oxygen up my nose for the majority of the time that i was there.  I stayed in recovery all day Thursday and till noon on Friday......then finally a room!!!!!  The rest of the time in the hopsital was just kind of boring, i mean , i slept, I watched TV, i slept, I watched TV.  I asked for pain medicine on the 4th hour without fail.  NOt that i was reallly hurting, but I was afraid I would, so I stayed doped up.  Fabulous sleep when you are doped up.  A had a few visitors and some flowers which always makes a girl smile on Friday.  Saturday morning came around and yup.....time to leave and go home!!!!!  My husband came about 11am to pick me up and to my surprise my bestfriend flew all the way in from Chicago to surprise me.  We both cried!!! LOL  Oh the worst part of th whole hospital experience was the removal of the catheter and the JP drain....sucked ASS!!!!!!!!! 

Finally, home sweet home!!!!!!!!!!  THe first thing i do is go straight to the shower.   take a shower, put some clean clothes on, hair up in a towel, and head to the couch with my bottle of chrystal light.   I am sure there were more events that have lead up to being 1 week post op, but that is for another time.  I went from 222 the day of surgery to 234 coming home from surgery to being a week post op at 217.  The is pretty much it.  I am having problems with the vitamins.  they are just soooooooo chalky, but i'm getting them in.  Also, i feel its impossible to get 64oz of liquid in a day.  Protein in fine, easier than i thought.  No nausea, no pain, LOTS OF GAS!!!  If you were not a burper or farter in front of your loved ones before....well my friends.... you'll have to get over it because after surgery.....ha ha ha.  Lots of gas passing.  hahaah didn't bother me before, doesn't bother me now.   Well, i'm going to go drink some food, hope you guys have a great day!!!!!

Well what to say here...I'M HAVING SURGERY IN ABOUT A DAY AND A HALF!!!!!!!!!  Yes, I am kind of counting the hours, but will not find out the exact time till Wednesday between 3-4.  
 I am still super stoked about surgery!!!!!  I must admit I am getting a little nervous.  I am sure i mentioned that before.  i am not nervous about the pain or the eating afterwards, just want everything to go smoothly.  I am sooooo close!!!!  I have lost about 8lbs on my preop diet.  It hasn't been too terribly difficult and the past few days it seems as it has been a little easier.  I must admit, my craving for my sweet tea and bread are slowly going away, which is awesome!!!  I am going to catch up on washing clothes and housework tonight, maybe even take some pictures to start a little photo journal.  I've been saying that for weeks, but tonight is the night.  Tomorrow I'm sure will go by super slow, i wish i would have taken the day off work to get my bag and my head together, but oh well.  Anyway, I have a great support system here on OH and outside of OH.  I have made friends that i keep in contact with on a daily basis, they are and will continue to be my "rock".  Sarah from PA, bless her heart, she just had her hernia surgery.  She is my mama "kris, don't lift anything while you are recovering"....ha ha ha. Crystal in WA, she is 8 days behind me on this rocky journey, We have more in common than most should, we can't seem to not to talk over each other and Sarah from Kinston, she answers all my rediculous questions about the surgeon.(We are using the same practice).  Well, this "might" be my last post before surgery.  So.........Wish me luck!!!!!!!!!!!  MWAH!!!!!!

Tomorrow I'll have 10 days to go till surgery.  I started my preop diet last Thursday and so far so good. Low Carb diets are not a lot of fun, but today it seems like it got easier.  i have lot 5 lbs since starting which i am contributing to water weight. I don't think 5lbs should fall off that easy, but hey I'll take it!!!  I am getting very anxious!!!  I feel like i am just counting down the hours.  My husband is out of town till Friday and then he'll leave again on Sunday, looks like he is going to get to avoid the craziness!!!! I'm sure i'll be going out of my head by next week.  I'm planning on going to GNC tomorrow and picking up some protein drinks so i'll be fully stocked for when i come home from the hospital.  I need to get some full body pictures so i can start a little picture journal.  I'm just rambling now...ha ha ha.  Have a great week guys!!!!