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So I have hernia repair in 2 weeks and ..keeoing my fngers crossed...I may be getting my abdominoplasty along with it!! OMG I am just at a loss for words. This has been such a great ride, and I am so happy. So anyone had a tummy tuck? Can u give me tips?

You will have to forgive me because last August I went back to school to finish my law degree, so school and internships have swallowed up ALL of my time. I have been able to still have time to exercise ad eat balanced meals. Still can't do rice but really I don't care any more. I am now below my original goal of 200 lbs. So now that I am 181 lbs, do I have a new goal? HELL YEAH!!! My new and FINAL goal is 160 lbs. IF I never get below 160 I am good, especailly since my highest weight every was 3 times that. I have to step back and assess. OMG from 427 to 181!!!! That is freaking HUGE!!! Go me!!!!

On August 5th I have to have my gallbladder removed. But that was truly a blessing because now I feel over the top fantastic. I have lost 135 lbs since my gasrtic bypass almost 8 months ago, and I am still going steady. I am finishing my law degree and have been unable to go to the gym because I am not allowed to exercise until I hit 8 weeks post op from my gallbladder removal surgery.

I think my WLS surgeon,  who also removed my gallbladder, is a true God send!! I used to wear a size 32 now I am a size 18. I am truly blessed! Everyone I havent seen since school ended in June just saw me yesterday and their mouths fell open from the huge change!! I have the whole world rooting for me now. So now that I hit my first 2 weight goals I am dying to hit numbers 3 & 4. Goal 3 - weigh 200 or less lbs. Goal 4 weigh less than 170lbs. Goal 5 - is absolute goal weight, to be determined in January.

I have also had bad times. I and a a friend encouraged someone to have WLS and he died on the table. He never ever had surgery before and it seems he had issues with anesthesia. So there is a positive and negative to everything.

I can encourage anyone looking into WLS to please make sure u visit with an allergist first if u have never had anesthesia before.

Hope u all enjoyed your summer as much as I did.

Last week was my 6 month appt and I am glad to say that I am now 252 lbs!! Wooohoooo!! I am 2 lbs away from my 2nd goal! Even my surgeon was happy about it, she said I far exceeded her expectations since my operation wasnt done as it should have because I have a huge hernia sitting on my intestines.

I have to admit to you all, my starting weight was 427 lbs. Then I started the pre-surgery diet, now 3 months out from bypass surgery I am below my first goal. I fonally am below 300lbs. I am 292. I haven't been below 300 in more than 7 yrs.

This has been the best thing I have ever done (besides having my kids) I am so happy and I can still weigh myself weekly and still see 2 pounds or more less. I am, learning to keep my food diary daily. I am counting my protein with sparkpeople.com.

Whats my secret? Protein shake for breakfast. Lunch of fish or chicken with a salad. Dinner of chicken or fish or alternative protein w salad w some potato or fruit. Always under 900 calories and 90+ grams protein.

But I did get help from my friend Carol. she called or texted me every morning to remind me to get my protein shakes in.

Thanks to Herc and everyone for all the advise.

And can't really right now. LOL But I plan to do so very soon, like possibly tomorrow or Thursday. I'm walking everywhere now, the bus drivers miss me. LMAO

OMG I feel like choking my mother. She has never been helpful or supportive and now that she actually sees me losing weight and ENJOYING my new life, she says that I took the "EASY WAY OUT" OK yes I wanted to beat the crap out of her. Its not my fault that she has all her sickness that are related to obesity but refuses to do anything about it.

What is now bothering me the most is that my kids are good eaters until she starts offering them things I refer to as treats  WHEN THEY ARE ACTUALLY HUNGRY. My kids are ultra polite and find it hard to say no. They woke up late because of NYC's Snowicane, school is closed.

So they just had breakfast at 9:50 am. Tell me why at 10:44 my mother was serving them soda crackers and cream cheese. Not a few crackers, nooooooo, like 10 each with globs of cream cheese on it. I asked my kids if they were hungry, they said no. Then she has the nerve to tell me that I have no right to starve my kids!!! How can you starve a child that 1 just ate 2 says they are not hungry, but want to eat it cause grandma says they have to.

I have been this way with my kids since they each hit 2 years old. I am making sure they don't end up like I was. Even my husband agrees because he was a fat kid. We remember how it was to be picked on for being the fat kid. My kids are not fat but with her pumping them with hourly "Snacks" when she is around, which are the size of most meals, obesity is not too far away.

Ahhhh ok I think I have expelled my demons.

She cries at the drop of a hat and at this point her tears did not affect me. I have the right to worry about my kids. I am tired of her saying they are too skinny when there doctor says that my son should lose about 3 lbs  to be considered average and that my daughter is fine because she is short for her age.

Went to the doctor and I lost another 13 lbs!!! Brings my total to 34 lbs lost in 27 days! Woooohooooo!!! My PCP is very impressed with my weight loss and the fact that I have none of the complaints mostly all of his patients have. Guess I am part of the lucky few. Life is not all roses but at least I am blessed enough not to have complications like others have.

Some down moments and some WOW moments. My Achilles heel on my right foot still hurts but I am having less joint pain in my knees. When I walk I feel like I am bouncing and a walk that usually takes me 40 minutes from my house to the kids school now takes me 20 minutes!!! I FEEL FREE!!! And just imagine. . . . . this is only the BEGINNING of my NEW LIFE!!! Ahhhhhh Thank you God for the health and for the strength to keep me going on. I can not ask for more, but I will work for it instead.

I know soon will come the plateau but I will rise above that and keep working at it.

Thanks to Herc, Liza, MsCandee, Andrea and all my other OH friends and members for the support and advise. 

It always happens every time I get the flu. I have never been able to hold in anything not even fluids. Well luckily this time around, the only time I feel OK is when I drink and it is the only thing that stays put. Even packaged baby food fruit isn't keeping put. And the creaminess of the protein isn't keeping put either. I am drinking it in 1 oz increments hourly in order to try to get it down. I have been i torture since Monday and can't wait for this to pass.

Other than that even tho I refuse to weigh myself I know I have lost weight. The clothes that were super tight on me are now loose.The tee shirts that were tightly worn under sweaters are now flowing freely. WOW if I didn't have the flu, I would have jumped up and down from the sight.

I gotta keep this short cause I feel like crap. But a mother's work is never done, so have to get myself together to go pick up the kids.

I am 21 lbs lighter!!!!! Wooooohooooo!!!! I can't even believe it. I am now super psyched. It took a lot of pain and hard work to get those first 20 lbs off but I am confident that I can continue and prove I beat obesity.

I am now on Stage 2 post op, so I am boiling an egg and am going to have egg salad puree. Oh my mind is more hungry than my tummy.

She did tell me she wants me to try to get to 200 lbs, but that if it isn't possible when she goes in to take out my hernia she is going to give me a revision because she is just now admitting she didn't make it small enough because she was afraid my huge hernia would cause a issue with severe malabsorbtion.

I am so happy and grateful that I have such a great support system of family, friends and internet buddies. You guys have gotten me through so much and are like a second family to me.