Long time no post...

Nov 29, 2007

Well I stink at updating obviously!  I am currently at 57# lost.  Everything in my life is improving!  

Since my last post I turned 37 and my hubby bought me diamond earrings - 1 ct! - I was so surprised.  Needless to say he is enjoying the new me...or should I say having the old me back.

I can pretty much eat anything now, just smaller portions.  I try to eat the protein first.  Getting the water, protein, vitamins in...that continues to be a struggle.  

I had my labs done and most are right where I need to be.  My triglycerides are still a little high but not too bad considering I no longer take the Trichor I used to take to keep it normal.  It worked out great because I saw my PCP, asked him to run the labs and I scanned them and emailed them to my surgeon - they said, looks great see you in three months!  Saved me from sitting in their office on the only day they are in the office.  It is usually quite a wait.  

One thing I love that has happened to me twice - I throw my clothes in the hamper, take them to the cleaners and by the time I get them back they don't fit.  I love it!  I still don't have to shop because I have so many things I grew out of.

I would LOVE to be under 200 before Christmas...I know I can do it!

 

Minor setback

Oct 24, 2007

Well, I landed myself in the hospital for an overnight stay of fluids.  I thought I had a problem with a cheesestick, but it turns out I had a stricture.  I kept getting put back on liquid so it took awhile to figure it out.  I went in for a EGD this morning, my stoma was about the size of a tic tac!  They dilated it with a baloon and I feel 1000 times better.  A couple of days of liquid, couple of days of pureed then I can try food again.

Things are looking up (even more!)

Oct 10, 2007

OK pureed foods are a little heavy, believe it or not, but today I am at 230 (-38).  I am so excited.  My hubby said not to weigh again for a week.  It will be hard but I know he's right.  So...until next week.

Still having a hard time getting in the protein and water....

"I'll have whatever they're having..."

Oct 07, 2007

Well it is Sunday night and I am extremely bored.  Life smacked me in the face a couple of times this weekend.  I endured my first movie without popcorn and soda.  That was tough.  Sunday football...family has eaten Chinese food then chips and salsa.  Funny how my life was so focused on food.  I was either buying it, preparing it, serving it or eating it.  I am still a little lost and don't know what to do with myself.  Other than laundy.  Man do I hate laundry.

Today I tried splitting a calcium pill in half and taking it.  I am already tired of all the chewable vitamins.  It seemed to go down okay but I didn't feel so hot for a few hours.  I think I will hold off on trying that again for awhile. 

I am trying not to weigh so often, but I was pleased when I weighed today!  I am at 236 (-32!)


Post Surgery Update II

Oct 02, 2007

244 (-24)

Doc says I am doing great.  In fact, I don't have to go back to see him for three months UNLESS I need to see him in which case I go back in 6 weeks.

Still liquids for another week though...then puree.  MMMMmmmmm Hmmmmmmm

What I didn't share sooner was I had a complication after surgery.  Apparently like one in a million people's esophogus swells in reaction to surgery.  So...on day two they switched me to liquid pain meds and gave me jello, broth, liquids, etc.  My chest started to hurt and everyone kept saying it was gas.  Pretty soon I couldn't lay, I couldn't sit...I just throbbed under my sternum.  So, day three when I should have been doing home I had a swallow test that showed all the meds and liquids stuck in my esophogus.  They had to give me an antiinflammatory and a dose of IV pain meds and within an hour I could feel everything moving and promptly took a four hour nap and apart from an abnormal fear of any viscous liquids for a few days I have been great every since.  Except the wonderful experience of having IV blow and then having nurses poke up and down both arms and a foot!  They gave up and my husband forced liquids in me every 15 minutes to avoid a central line (that is an IV right in the NECK!), bless him...

So, I had soup and jello this evening and it was heaven!  Tomorrow I get to officially start counting the protein.  I am also taking two Flintstones vitamins a day and two 600 mg Caltrate Calcium + Vitamin D.  I am going to add subligual Vitamin B tomorrow as well.

I think I can already see a difference in my husband...maybe its just the fact that we just basically had a very lazy vacation together, but I think he sees what I am putting into getting healthy for my family!

Post Surgery Update

Oct 01, 2007

Sorry for taking so long to post.  I am home and I am doing well.  I am going to the doctor this afternoon for my post op appointment and will update later. 

BEFORE pic

Sep 23, 2007

OK I am actually going to have a before photo taken in the next day or two.  I missed my max weight since I have been on liquids.  I am chicken!  I don't want to put it up!  The picture I am using is a sketch from 2000 after a partially successful Weight Watcher episode!!!  

UGGGHHH!

Sep 23, 2007

Day five of liquid diet.  The weekend has been the hardest.  I have gotten a lot done, though.  I cleaned out my home office and I've found Weight Watcher stuff from over the years.  I found one in 99 where I went and was 188 lbs and lost an additional 20...then found another where I went in 2001 and was 227!  I think I have been a member about 8 times at various weights.  I would be pretty stinkin happy at 188 right now!

I have made some new OH friends this weekend and I saw that one wrote letters to her family just in case.  I am going to that but I can't seem to put pen on paper.  I should have done that before liquid diet!

A couple of my online buddies had surgery this past week and they aren't posting and I am getting worried.  My imagination getting the best of me I am sure.  

I am not going to put here all the food I am craving just in case other pre-ops that are on liquid diet one day read this.  I have been reading profile after profile and just readinig what foods people are able to introduce makes me crazy!

Enough rambling.

5 more days

Sep 21, 2007

Well I am on day 3 of the liquid diet and still doing okay.  I am getting emotional, just overwhelmed with everything.  My husband and daughter are great, but all I want to do is curl up in bed and not THINK about anything!  I have so much to do before surgery, both at work and at home.  Ah, funny how life doesn't stop so you can get off for a break.   I have lost weight, though.  Since my August appt at the doc I have lost 13 pounds.  I need to update my profile so my BMI is correct...

Here I go...

Sep 18, 2007

Well I am starting the liquid diet today!  I am getting REALLY nervous about my 9/26 surgery! 

About Me
Houston, TX
Location
23.6
BMI
RNY
Surgery
09/26/2007
Surgery Date
Aug 16, 2007
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Long time no post...
Minor setback
Things are looking up (even more!)
"I'll have whatever they're having..."
Post Surgery Update II
Post Surgery Update
BEFORE pic
UGGGHHH!
5 more days
Here I go...

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