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I cant believe it has been one month since surgery. My how time flies when your losing weight!!!

I feel so damn good!!!! It has been 31 days since my surgery and i have lost over 1lbs a day!!! I am currently at 351.7. That is a total loss of 39.3lbs!!!! I am almost at my first goal of 50lbs!!! I am so excited about this!!! 

 I LOVE MY LAP-BAND!!!!!!



This Month I am Hopeful Eyore
I lost 39.3 Lbs!!!
391/351.7/175

I can't believe that it has been four weeks since my surgery!!! 
I am 31.4lbs down in one month!!! its amazing...

G-d bless this band. He has really bestowed so much blessing on me. He has given me a second chance at living a healthy fulfilling life.  Now G-d please bring on the babies!!! 

I want more than anything to have a baby. This is the reason for me embarking on this journey. I have been begging G-d for a baby for two years and now I realize that in this world sometimes you have to really show G-d you want it and do your part. You can't win the lotto if you don't buy a ticket.... 

On a lighter note... I'm taking back my life. I don't just mean my health of my weight I mean my LIFE! Before I hit 300 I was a social butterfly. I had friends, lots of them and once I started gaining the weight I was embarrassed to be around them and i thought they were embarrassed to be around me. Today was phase one of my comeback. I was talking to my best friend from high school and we were talking about why we never see eachother and we decided to start getting together once a week. I really miss him. It will feel so great to have a social life again.



This Month I am Hopeful Eyore
I lost 31.4 Lbs!!!
391/359.6/175

	March 3, 2008	April 5, 2008
Neck	16.5	15.5
Upper Arm	20.5	20
Chest	53	49
Waist	60	58
Hips	65.5	63
Thigh	36	34
Calf	25	23.5
Total Inches Lost		-12.5

 
This Month I am Hopeful Eyore
I lost 28.5 Lbs!!!
391/362.5/175

I haven't posted in a little over week. What has happened this week... 

Well the scale has gone down again finally. I am down a total of 25lbs... I was hoping for a little more by now but I am very happy with 25. I hope to be down 50lbs total by the end of May when I leave for Mexico. It would make it so much easier to walk around and do all the great things I wanted to do in Mexico. 

I also made a mojor decision this week. For those of you who don't know I am a Social Work major at Adelphi University. Lately I have really been stugling with what area I want to specify or with where I want to take my degree. I have decided that I want to go into private practice and specialize in weigh loss surgery. I want to do psych evals for pre-op patients on a sliding scale and I want to work with post-op patients to help them deal with emotional eating and cravings so that they can suceed. I think everyone who has undergone any type of weight loss surgery should see someone to help them deal with all of their emotions and changes that come with WLS. 

Now, I have a question for you? Would you feel more comfortable seeing someone who has had WLS? Do you think because I have had WLS I would be better able to help others who have had WLS or do you think it is better to stick to a specification where you may have a more objective view?


This Month I am Hopeful Eyore
I lost 26 Lbs!!!
391/365/175

This past Monday my Dr. gave me the go ahead to eat mushie food. Eventhough I have already started eating food I have decided to stay on the Medifast and only eat 2-3 mushie meals a day. I am really unhappy with my weight loss so far. I was doing great on liquids (lost 26lbs ) but then once i started incorporating new foods things really got hard and I started gaining weight... i am so frustrated. I think as the days go by I will switch one medifast meal to a mushie meal... any good recipes are greatly apreciated.

Im hungry!!!!! I never feel full and it is sooo frustrating!!! Maybe its because Im afraid to eat more than a few spoonfuls of food at a time but I'm starving... I know I have not been 100% with my diet... I started mushies a few days too early and I am already able to eat chicken... I have no restriction from the surgery and I feel if I were to let myself I could eat the same amount as I did before the surgery. But then I beat myself up because I am not doing this correctly. Does anyone else go through this???

I Lost 26.3lbs!!
391/364.7/175

So I have been kind of frustrated the past few days. I haven't lost anything since Sunday!!!! In fact I even gained back 5lbs.... Then Wednesday I went back down 3 out of the 5lbs I've gained so I got happy figuring I was going back in the right direction. Stalled again yesterday...
GRRRRRRRR.....
Then this morning I was down the last 2lbs I gained PLUS an aditional 3lbs!!!!!!!!

HAPPY NOW!!!!!

I Lost 26.3lbs!!
391/364.7/175

Well today was my first day back in school. I skipped my internship because walking around a huge school building looking for kids is just not for me today. I did however go to my philosophy class. I like my professor because he is around my age and easy to talk to. His wife is considering lap-band surgery, so he is really interested in my journey. I told him I would be more than happy to talk to his wife. He is so amazed at my progress and I hope I can help his wife along her journey as well. It was great to be back in school and out of the house.

I Lost 23.7lbs!!
391/367.3/175

This is goal weight for getting pregnant. Once I hit this weight I will start fertility meds to get preggers if I am not ovulating naturally by then. My. doctor told me This would be a healthy weight for me to get pregnant at. So here is my first goal...

I cant believe I am only post op for 4 days and I lost 10.3lbs in those 4 days!!!! Total of 20.3lbs!!!!!! It is insane!!!!!! I am so happy!!!1 I can't believe this is working so well. I can't wait to get all better and get to the gym and really start to live my new life. Thank you for all of your support... Thank you for being my family on this long journey we take together

I Lost 20.3lbs!!
391/370.7/175