Trina Van Schoiack

Less than a month and I will have been reborn 2 years ago...

Sep 11, 2010

I am just going to do a quick post.... but it is now Sept 11 2010.... I just hit my goal capris!!! SIZE 1... Lots of other changes, nate and I are now di vorced.. at the time of the surgery I was addicted to opiates and everything I said or thought was to get what I wanted... Not realizing that I was manipulating and just acting like a  big jerk! I didn't get help until July of 2009, and I wasn't done... Still searching for the next thing that I could emotionally embrace... I didn't get to eat the way I used to... But I still felt almost 300 pounds until the last time I went to drug and alcohol treatment in January 16th 2010... As I walked up to the door of the rehab I grabbed the doorknob and said whoever you are... I surrender!
That is what you have to do with any addiction in your life.. I have been drinking since I was 9 years old... trying to conseal feelings of inadequatecy that I had for being FAT and UGLY.. Ever felt that way.... I had to realize that I needed to start feeling... coming with addiction is the feeling of emptyness.... I am dedicated to eating foods I like now... and learning how to taste for the first time in my life... I don't eat anymore than I was eating in the first few months.... I dont get dumping syndrome ( I feel for you if you do... but this is a tool) Your hard work and dedication to rethinking the way we live and how what we had been doing wasn't working and got us there... I would love to be a a coach for people like us.... I have had the tummy tuck and got my belly button pierced and 4 new tattos this year... they all have a significance in my life... But gastric bypass didnt save me... I saved me several times over by learning that addiction is addiction... food, sexy drugs, rock n roll....whatever... it is what you do with the tools that get put in your life is how you are going to become that safe, secure, and confident person that you are trying to get out when you develop your life with your addictions.... Let me know if you want any support! Day or night! It isn't an easy road... I am just sassy I have to get it all out at once... ARE YOU SASSY?
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all kinds of news

Jul 16, 2009

Wow... Well at surgery time I weighed 271... with a BMI of almost 52!!!! Today I weigh 164.5 and My BMI is 31.1~~~~ I am excited to say that I offically overweight instead of OBESE!!!!! How are things going for you all???
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30 pounds lighter---

Nov 14, 2008

Well I am down 30 pounds... I noticed the roll that was on my back has gone away... I have been sick the past few days so breathing hasn't been easy for me... I am off all pain medications and I feel great! For once I feel like I have my fibromyalgia under control!

I hope the weight keeps coming off like it has been!


I did it!!!!

Oct 05, 2008

well it happened on wednesday October 1st!!!! And I survived. After the first day of initially feeling like getting hit by a mack truck... The next day I was up and walking around. My hubby is working in Washington so I hadn't seen him in 3 weeks so when he got home it totally made my day. I stepped on the scale today... The day of my surgery I weighed 271 today I weigh 257!! So I am pleased with the results!! I will try and keep my results updated.

Well I better go for now! Love me


jeckle and hyde...

Aug 22, 2008

Well I am in the midst of losing a little weight for my surgery. I am needing to lose 7 pounds before my surgery. So I have cut out all sugar, and I am trying to eat low fat everything. Nate and I have started walking at night. It is nice we have about a mile route and it is a good thing to share together. We have been looking for a way to spend time together. We are going to go and get me a bathing suit in the next couple of days so that I can start water aerobics. Nates parents are leaving in 2 days for  the east coast. They will be gone until the beginning of November. So when they come home I will have been about 5 to 6 weeks after my surgery so I am hoping that maybe it will be a drastic loss and that they will be proud of me. I am really hoping that I am alot stronger in my legs and everything by the time the surgery comes around so that excersize won't be a hard thing to experience. I have sat around so much over the past 4 years that my leg muscles are so weak.

I have a new nephew in my life he is now a month old, he is so precious and my niece (his mommy) have been spending alot of time together, scrapbooking, at the scrapbooking store that I work at. So I get to be with both my niece and her baby and it makes me so happy.

Well I have just been rambling but that is what is going on with me. I will update you more here soon... hugs... Trina 


I got a surgery date!!!

Aug 08, 2008

Hello~ Well I got the call on wednesday!! My surgery is October 1st! I am very excited.

I spent a couple days in the hospital, I got very sick on Sunday afternoon and my asthma flared up. I could barely breathe. My hubby had to call 911 by the time the ambulance had gotten here my oxygen saturation was 76%. I have never gotten below 80%. So I wasn't doing well. The doctor let me go on tuesday evening, so getting the call on wednesday was a much needed boost!

I start my nutrician classes on the 15th of september so I prob won't be on here again until then.

I hope everyone is doing well!

Hugs, trina


Just moving along... waiting for the day for my life to start a

Jul 19, 2008

Well I am waiting on the letter to come in the mail that says when my nutrician classes. As soon as I get that I can call and get a surgery date.

I met a girl tonight that had had the surgery 5 years ago.... she was totally gorging herself in food all day and she was very overweight too. When she heard that I am having the surgery she gave me a bunch of horror advice. I was so unimpressed.

I am hoping to get things a little more pinned down here soon. Otherwise I am helping out at a scrapbook store here in town and having fun doing that.

I did get a call from the psycologist and she said that I need to have counseling while I am going through this process... I agree it is a huge life change and I may need some help processing all the changes.

Hope everyone out there is good! Hugs, trina


Almost there and baby news!!!

Jul 03, 2008

Well I have had my appointments with the ditetion (sp) and psyciatrist.... Again my spelling is horrible!!!

So now I am passed that. The lady that I saw last yesterday said that they will have a meeting and staff whether I am qualified for the program (she said I should be fine) and then they will call me with a surgery date and the dates for the nutrician classes that you take before surgery. So It is coming along quite quickly, it is just kinda hit me that I am just 3 nutrician classes away! Holy Crap!

So Baby news, My niece found out that she was pregnant about 3 weeks ago.... She has had womanly problems and didn't think she would getpregnant so if she didn't get sick or start showing we all thought she was just gaining some weight.  Well we found out last week at her ultra Sound that she has 2 weeks left in her pregnancy!!! Can you believe it... As soon as she found out she was pregnant that baby just dropped and she said now she knew what all the funny stomach movement was. She is having a boy, at this point he is about  6 and 1/2 pounds.  I am so excited we havent really had a baby in our family since 1995 and that was my niece but her mother never let the family meet her until she was 2 , and she passed away at the age of 4. So it really has been since stephanie herself was born that we in our intermeteate family. We are sooooo excited.

So that is what is up right now.... I am doing a stampin up order right now so I better get off here. Happy losing everybody!!! Hugs!

Trina


It's in motion

Jun 13, 2008

Well since the last time I wrote We have moved home to Oregon... Things are looking up for us.... I am still very sick with this acid reflux and having alot of trouble with that but it is cool because I am close to family that are being very supportive.

I had an appointment with my surgeon on tuesday I wasn't supposed to see him until July 22nd but there was a cancellation and so they called me and moved my appointment up! I was so excited, I also met with the nursing coordinator, and the financial person.... SO that is all taken care of and I only have to lose 5 pounds by my surgery and they said that as long as I don't put anymore weight on they will be happy, I am taking 40 mg of Prednisone a day and that doesn't let you loose any weight... So hopefully my weight gain is over from it...

So my next appointment is July 2nd I meet with the Diatician and the phyciatrist.  So that is what is next for me! Nate is doing really well, not drinking at all and working at the University of Oregon for a local Union Electrical contractor he was promoted to Forman a couple days ago. He feels really good he rides his bike to the rideshare and gets on the bus and rides 20 miles north to Eugene... So we are really happy to be home again.

Well that is all for now!


Going to be positive...

Apr 16, 2008

 Well the stress that we have had in our life this week has been frustrating! Nate has been drinking away his pain and frustration, I have been coughing and coughing.... Plus breaking out all over on my skin, the more I stress the more that I have all these red bug bite looking bumps come but then they go away, But they aren't bug bites. I have been using cortisone creme so I don't itch them.
Anyways, Nate and I decieded that since we are leaving this area and going home to where we are happy, that we need to switch gears and start being positive. No more bitching. So here I am getting out of my funk.... I promise. 

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10/01/2008
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Mar 28, 2008
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