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Wow it has been 17 weeks and 1 day since my surgery.  Time sure has flown.  I got on the scale yesterday morning and it said 199.5, I just wanted to jump for joy!  I have to say this has been the best thing I could have done for myself.  Even my son tells me he can tell and I am very pretty. 

I am 8 weeks and 2 days post op and still feel great.  I am down 30 pounds, and taking a look at my new pictures my pants are getting really really baggy especially in the butt.  Please don't look at my hair, I had no clue it looked that bad until we took the pictures, and as soon as I got off of work yesterday I went and got it cut.  Now I feel better but don't have my camera with me to take new shots.
I have come to realize that grease and I dont' get along.  Anything I have with grease makes me sick to my stomach.  I have not thrown up, but I sure feel like I need to sometimes.  I broke the no sugar rule this past Sunday and had a tiny sliver or my nephews birthday cake and boy it sure taisted good, but then I felt guilty the rest of the day.  I am so afraid that if I start on sugar I will either get sick or worse yet my body will do ok with it and then I won't stop.  Both ideas are scarey to me so I have just done my best to stay away from it.  
Last night after my nephews choir concert we took the kids to our favorite place for ice cream and I didn't even have a taiste.  Not one single lick.  I stuck to my strawberry Disani, and I was actually ok.  Boy I think this surgery has done something to my mind.  It is changing me and the way I see the world that is for sure!

Well I am about 4 and  1/2 weeks out , and honestly feel like I never had the surgery.  Other then not being able to eat much I have no real complaints, and I am able to eat almost everything I have tried.  I probably eat more foods than I am supposed to yet, but haven't had a problem with anything other than peanut butter.  I eat VERY little, but need to be able to eat what I make my son for dinner.  However if I make pasta with meat sauce I have a few noodles cut very small and have more hamburger than anything so I am getting the protein.  
My clothes are starting to get a little looser, well my tops are getting alot looser up top, but the scale says i have been stuck for about 2 weeks.  I finally lost 3 pounds last week and then I am up a pound and a half yesterday and today so i am not happy about that, but I am trying to drink more water today thinking that may be my problem.

I am almost 2 weeks out not and feeling TONS better.  I came back to work last Tuesday after I got my drainage tube out.  That was not a pleasant experience but it was over quickly.  I felt pretty down for a few days wondering what the heck have I done, but I have been working on making things for my family to eat that I can eat too and that has helped.  I can also see the beginning of weight loss in my face and so that helps ALOT.  But every day gets easier and I know I will aprreciate all of this before to long.  At least I am not in the regret stage any more.

Well everyone I am home.  This was harder then I thought it would be, but not really the surgery, more the gas and the bed.  I couldn't get rid of the gas until today, so my body hurt something horrible, and then the bed was terrible so my back hurts worse then anything now.  They say walk walk walk, but the gas pain was so bad I was doubled over and couldn't walk, but did alot better last night and today.  I am feeling alot better now and I am sure I will feel better every day.  I guess my surgery went fine from what I understand.  I was pretty drugged up on Morphine for the first day and a half.  But the Doctor said my liver looked really good!!!

Well tomorrow is the big day.  The second biggest day of my life next to having my son.  I am nervous but not not as bad as I thought I would be so far.  Now at 4 in the morning tomorrow when I have to get up might be a different story but I hope not.  I have alot of friends and family that have been very supportive.  I have met some wonderful people on here, and Terisa and Lee Ann have been great great help!
Terisa is as nervous as I am and didn't sleep last night and said she felt like she was going through the night before all over again.  So maybe she took my anxiety and so I won't have any.  Well I will let everyone know how I am as soon as I am able to.

Thank you to all of you who have sent me best wishes and prayers.  I feel that this site has been a true blessing, and the people I have met on here were sent to me for a reason.  I am now 2 1/2 days until my surgery, and I am actually quite calm.  Alot more so then I thought I would be at this point.  I have had a few freak out moments but the friends I have made on here have helped me overcome them more then I ever thought anyone would be able to help me.  I have had to make some major decisions about my life and my son if for some reason things were to go wrong, but it has all been good for the soul I think to have to sit back and think about my life and what is important in it and what would be the best for my son in the event that he could not have me.  
I can't wait to be on the loosers side, and I hope I can be as much support to other people as I have found on here.

Well I went to the local hospital this morning and got all my pre-op testing done.  The Upper GI was nasty but really none of it as as bad as I was afraid it was going to be.  And that is one more step closer to my surgery on Oct 17th.