newwavetiff
7/29/10
Jul 29, 2010
after having WLS i initially lost 126 pounds. THEN somehow, it took me over a year to gain 30 of that back. THEN i got pregnant and was fortunate to only gain 26 pounds with my pregnancy, and i lost all of that within a week of delivery! so now, i am trying to get back down to my initial goal but setting little goals at a time. currently on this day, i am at 212 and feel i have come a long way, not just since the surgery but also from having a baby. when i was pregnant i was 247 so i feel that i've lost quite a bit just since november 2009 too!
my son Alex will be 9 months old already August 16th. it has gone by sooo fast!
22 weeks pregnant!
Jul 27, 2009
although i am getting more excited about having a baby as i go along, i am very depressed because it took me so long and i put so much hard work into losing all the weight i did with the RNY surgery i had. i am just scared that once i do have the baby that i won't be able to lose like i did before :(
i am having a boy, by the way! his name will be Alexander Lennon Baker :)
4/7/08
woweee its been forever since i've posted! just thought i'd write a little bit while i had a minute! i have now lost 126 pounds and am down to 185 pounds. i am tending to yo-yo a little bit here and there though, which really sucks :( i need to figure out how to keep that under control....
other than that, not much going on here!
10.18.07
Just a few weeks ago I was very anxious about hitting that 199 mark and I finally hit it last Thursday. And now I am at 197! I am very excited about this, I haven't been under 200 in sooooo long!
I've been having some problems with my intestines/colon and at first me and my docs thought it was my ovaries. So I had an ultrasound done and they found a couple small cysts on my left ovary but Dr. Jamison (my gyno) says that is not what is causing my pain and she suggested I see Dr. Sonnanstine, which I did. So he let me try a few different types of medicine ordinarily prescribed for IBS. The first one, Bentyl, made me really sick and pass out and the second one, hyosciamine just doesn't work. So I had to have a Catscan done this past Monday morning. I had to drink almost a half gallon of the most god-awful crap I have ever drank in my life PLUS had an IV in my arm to put a contrast dye through. Well, all of that gave me diarrhea for 2 days straight I had to call off work. I get my results back today and Taryn says what i'm dealing with is 'probable sigmoid colon spasms'. and says Dr. Tom wants to give me the option of having a barium enema. It doesn't sound appealing at all! I mean, i've heard the word enema before, so it all made me very uncomfortable. I ended up just calling her because I wanted to see if I could have the doc talk to me personally because I am so confused about everything and it makes me really upset. So I have an appt. with him at 9 in the morning to discuss everything. So I will hopefully know what the heck is up by then. I described my symptoms to Taryn and she says it sounds like I have irritable bowel syndrome. Sounds like I do have the symptoms, but like i said, we'll see what dr. tom has to say in the morning.
10.4.07
It's so hard to believe that in 27 more days, it will have been 1 year since my RNY! Time has literally flown past. So many things have happened in the past year, more good things than bad thankfully. Things I actually thought would never happen to myself. As of today, I am almost at my first personal goal. 1 more pound and I will weigh 199. I got on the scale here at work today and i was 200 and I could hardly believe it. I have been exercising a lot more lately and I'm hoping that that is the reason why I've been dropping again. I was at a stand-still for a while there and it's really hard when that happens, especially during those first few months after surgery when you are losing 20 or so pounds at a time. It's hard to get used to not losing that much later on! But everything has been rewarding.
I got engaged on September 7th to my boyfriend of 9 months. He is my best friend and my soul mate. So thankful to have him in my life. I couldn't imagine a day without him, and he is so supportive of everything I do. Even when I'm feeling gross about the droopy skin or boobs that I've sadly acquired from having the surgery, he is there to let me know I am beautiful and he loves me no matter what. :) We have set a date of May 31, 2008 but I'm the type of person that I just want to get up and 'do it', so I have a feeling we will be tying the knot much sooner than that!
The only problems I've been having healthwise lately is back in July I started having pelvic pains and my doctors couldn't figure out what it was. So my gyno had an ultrasound done on me and they found some small cysts on my left ovary. We all thought that's what was paining me so much but realized the pain was more in my intestinal region and not in my girly parts. So I went to see Dr. Sonnanstine just to be safe. He said it had absolutely nothing to do with the RNY surgery, that I was just having intestinal spasms and has prescribed me some meds for what people usually take for IBS symptoms. I was to have a catscan done the other day but I was feeling much better so I cancelled it. And wouldn't you know, the day after I cancel, my symptoms start back up! So i'm going to take these meds again and hopefully I'll feel better. If not, i will reschedule that test. I go for another ultrasound next Tuesday the 9th to make sure that those cysts are gone, and if they aren't then my doc said she will take the next step. Hopefully nothing serious!
9.7.07
I'M ENGAGED!!!!!!!!!!
7.25.07
well, i hit quite a wall there for a while, not losing even a pound! but last week i finally lost one and it seems things were starting to look back up. so far this week i have lost 2 more pounds and i am so excited about it. i have changed a few things in my routine. i confess that i had a little more sugar last month that i shouldve, and i'm pretty sure that's what made me go backwards :( but, i know where i made the mistake and that i needed to correct it. so, i'm on my way again!
it just feels really good to even be at the weight i'm at. 205 on this date. to a lot it's still heavy and technically i'm still considered that ugly word 'obese'. but one thing i can be happy about there is that i'm no longer classified as super morbidly obese! yay!
it doesn't even seem like i'm 8 months out of surgery either. i mean, i only have 3 more months to go until my 1 year surgeversary! and i have now been a member of this site for a little over a year now. have met and talked to a lot of great people and have learned a whole lot from this site. this site and all the info on it helped me through some tough times before surgery, before i was even approved by my insurance.
next month is my 29th birthday (YIKES!) and i hope to do something fun and exciting, something i've never done before or even 106 pounds ago!
6.19.07
It's so hard to believe, but I have lost 103 pounds so far, and it's only been less than 8 months since my surgery. Time has really flown by too! I can't believe either that it will already be a year in just 4 more months! I can fit into size 15-18 pants depending on the material and what the brand is. My size 14-16 shirts are starting to get baggy also. That's a wonderful feeling! I'm surprised i'm not losing a lot more with all the stress i've been under. I sometimes find myself resorting to old ways when dealing with stress. I'm having a hard time with sleeping right now and my anti-depressants have totally crapped out on me so I'm totally not myself, at least i dont think. So i will get really restless, especially here at work and just want to EAT. 99% of the time I can keep those feelings at bay but i do find myself giving in sometimes. But it's really funny because when I do, all i grab is a piece of string cheese or some triscuits lol Before, it used to be whatever i could get my hands on. Candybars or whatever. It made me feel good at least for a little while. That is, until I started seeing it pack on and my clothes got tighter. yuck!
I'm having trouble with protein shakes, but I think it might just be the milk. It just makes me so so sick. So I am going to try some soymilk to see if that makes a difference. Because I know once I pick up on my protein intake I should see a much better difference.
Other than that, things with the weight loss are going OK. My next goal is to be 200 pounds. I haven't seen anything less than that since I was in high school. So that's going to be kind of a turning point for me. Something I am really looking forward to seeing. I picture myself getting all emotional about it, but i'll never know until it actually gets here. Hopefully I can hit that target within the next couple of weeks!
5.18.07
28 WEEKS POST OP!
well, i had my 6 month appointment with Dr. Tom today. I hadn't seen him since January sometime. I am down -93 pounds! my bp was good, 120/80, and he gave me the results of my bloodwork for my vitamin levels and he said they were SUPER. i was so glad to hear that. i was really curious to know if i was going to need to take anything extra than what i've been doing. i've been taking 2 Centrum vitamins every single day ever since I stopped taking the flintstones chewables. dr. tom said the next 6 months are going to be tougher and to give myself that extra push so i can keep losing my weight. he said within the next month i should get down -100 pounds yay!
In the past few weeks I have been able to fit into size 18 jeans and they are even baggy in the legs! i am wearing size L and XL shirts still. i even bought a shirt from the juniors department last weekend! i have never ever done that, even when i was a junior! LOL
June 1st is the big day. That is when we (as in Adam and I) have our own place! I pick up the keys and drop off the deposit and rent check that morning, and then i'll start moving everything in the next day. I absolutely cannot wait for this day, I wish we could move in there this weekend.
Will update soon!
5.9.07
27 WEEKS POST-OP
well, i had my 6 month appt. with dr. sonnanstine yesterday morning at 10. i show up like i'm supposed to and tell april who i'm there to see and she's like, 'he's not in today. he won't be in all week'. i'm like, WHA.... lol i was so looking forward to seeing him and getting the results of my bloodwork i had done last tuesday. but, i had to reschedule for next friday, the 18th. can't wait! i got to weigh myself while i was there at least and lost another 2 pounds. so now i am down -89 pounds! yay!!!! i was very excited about that. i've been drinking my protein shakes each day now, which is something i slacked off on for a while there, mostly because drinking milk made me sick to my stomach. then when i got a sinus infection it's not a good idea to drink milk cuz of the yucky cough and phlegm! yum! hahah
i am moving in with my boyfriend june 2nd, that's another thing i am SO excited about. we won't be living far from my parents, only about 3 miles. and it'll only be about 3 or 4 miles to winton woods, which is a place adam and i like to go on the weekends when he gets off work early enough. we walk on the nature trails and just talk and goof around and have so much fun. :)
so that's pretty much everything that's going on with me now. i am wearing size 18 pants which are baggy in the legs depending on which ones i wear. i am getting into size XL and even size L shirts now, it's SO AWESOME! i was wearing size 24's just 6 months ago, and wearing size 3X shirts! it's more amazing everyday, all the changes.....
