Stephanie B.

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WOW!  Today is my five year surgiversy and I am just too excited and praising God! I was being wheeled into the OR at this time in 2007 weighing 318 pounds (down from 327 just a few weeks before) and today by God's grace I hopped on the scale on my way to work and it said I was 158.8!   That's a loss of 168.2 pounds total and 89.99% excess body weight loss per my doctor (who wanted me to get down to 140 pounds).  My 5 year appt with him is on Feb 2 so we will see how my labs are looking at that time.  Well, I posted on December 31 a little longer post so I will not say much right now since I am at work but I didn't want to let this day go by with out saying something! This is a life long journey with its ups and downs...but the thing is not to stay down when you hit a rough spot...we all fall off track but you just have to get back to the basics and start from there.  Don't give up and just keep swimming as Nemo says  and when you need to, find a friend to talk to you who knows what you are dealing with and call them...don't turn to your old comfort...food....we are in this together and I am so thankful that I was blessed with the chance to have this surgery that changed my life and my outlook and has placed so many wonderful new friends in my life.  

A few of my favorite of scripture have help me thru this journey:

Jeremiah 29:11 "For I know the plans I have for you declares the Lord, and they include plans to prosper you so that you can have a future and a hope"

Geneis 18:14 "Is anything to hard for God?"

Ephesians: 3:20 "Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

Matthew 6:25 -34
Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? ²⁶ Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? ²⁷ Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life^[e]?

   ²⁸ “And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. ²⁹ Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. ³⁰ If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? ³¹ So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat?’ or ‘What shall we drink?’ or ‘What shall we wear?’ ³² For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. ³³ But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. ³⁴ Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own. "


These all apply to the journey of our lives....which include this WLS journey....trust God and know that if He has blessed you to have this tool, He will help you to be successful with it as well.  All He asks is that we trust Him and obey Him through everything.  His way is simple and easy.....but we make it hard.   

 WOW! The close of another year......exactly one month away from my 5 year surgery anniversary......time has gone by quickly.  I am thankful that these 5 years have been complication free.  God is good and He sustains me.....He does what He says He will do but too many times I fall short on my end.  With that being said I am so thankful that I serve a God who gives us many chances to get it together....He is still working on me.  I am thankful for the peopke that God has placed in my life, family and frirnds, to love and spport me even when its hard to do.  And for the ones who stay when its hard to stay when they dont have to....family cant leave 'technically' lol but friends can choose to not be friends, and i can say that Not only was I blessed with a very loving and suppirtive family....I have the most amazing friends.  I am also thankful for the ones who walked away when it wasnt easy to stay......their season was over and I am one to try to make seasonal friends lufetime friends...God knows better than I do so He gives the other person a stronger resolve than I have so they can walk away.....what can I say I am a person pack rat.  

I still have the same fears of not maintai i g the weight loss...this journey is HARD. I remember last year before going in for my 4 yr check up with my surgeon i really went back to basics with my eating and increased the intensity of my work outs because i thought my weight was up from what it was the year before.  Well it turns out I wasnt, so when I weighed in I had lost weight since my visit the year before. And my surgeon asked me 'were u sick last year or did you have surgery?" most pts dont lose weight between their 3rd & 4th yr.  I was like wow......a little offended and like know I worked out at the fitness center where they train football players and atheletes for most of last yr....and i work out 4 days a week at least.....but  anywho......

Last year was an interesting year to say the least.....I turned 40 on August 4, 2011 and about a month and a half before my birthday i went back to the basics cause you know I had to be Fit Fine and Fabulous for my Fortieth...took a trip to Jamaica to celebrate and then went to Vegas to celebrate my fr

WOW!! I can hardly believe that four years have gone by already. But  four years ago today I experienced a life changing event....I had my gastric bypass surgery....and today, I am more than half my body weight....from 327 to 161.4 as of about 8 pm tonight.  This journey has been just that a journey...full of ups and downs and some tough lessons....but through it all..I wouldnt trade it for nothing.  I thank God for the blessing and for bringing this far with out complications and for keeping me.  And I am going to do better and honor Him by doing what I said I would do if He allowed me to have this surgery and stick to the rules and do what I know I need to do each day instead of what I want to do just because "everyone else or normal ppl do it".  I know I am not a normal person as far as my eating habits and behaviors or else I would not have ended up at 327 pounds and needed RNY.....oh well....Its all good.  I wish I could say I have been the  model patient that Isaid I would be before I had the surgery...but I was only that for about 9 months and then I have struggled to do the right thing.   So many ppl think that having weight loss surgery is the easy way out and they just dont know.....this has got to be one of the hardest things I have ever had to do....because the surgery is the easy part....its what happens once you get home from the hospital when the work begins...or not even then...I would say the 18 months or so were a breeze for me....then the weight regain began....because I had started to think I could eat any thing I wanted and started to graze all day and eat between meals...not eat protein first and eating simple carbs...you know all the things we said we wouldn't do and were told we shouldn't do before we had the surgery.....I was breaking all the rules...the onely ones I followed from day one and still follow is no drinking with meals and an hour after meals and I don't drink alcohol....I never was a big drinker before I had the surgery anyway so that was not a challenge.  I got down as low as 149 for about 2 minutes and then stablized at 155 for a few months...and then I woke up one day and was up to 190 lbs!! Imagine my horror and embarrasment!  It was a struggle to they weight back off and it is a struggle now to maintain now...but I do know what Phillipans 4:13 tells us..I can do all things thru Christ who strenghtens me.....And if I do what I am supposed to do..He will be with me every step of the way.  He did not make it possible for me to have this surgery and give me access to a free gym at work, and an affordable place to work out after work and so many other resources for me not to succeed.....so as long as I stay the course....I can't help but win.  I am looking forward to this next year and staying the course and walking closer with God so that I can be stronger in other areas in my life.  

It hit me this morning that four years ago I weighed 327 lbs!  And I remember praying and praying for years for God to help me to finally get this weight off.....and He did it!  I had gastric bypass on 1/31/07 and I am now 165 lbs.  Almost half my body size and as I was getting dressed for work it just hit me how good my God is...and I just had to stop and get my praise on. And I wanted to stop and share with anyone who would read this that God is good, faithful and able to anything...nothing is too hard for Him.  Ask and you shall receive.  Believe in Him and know that he will deliver on His promises.......I am very tearful this morning and weepy but not from sadness but from being so thankful and overwhelmed at how blessed I have been.  God has been so good to me and placed so many wonderful people in my life (and some of you here too and I thank you for allowing me to call and bug you are to text you are for just sending a message to encourage me or just believing in me when I didn't).  Well, I have so much more I could write but I am on my way to work....but I will be back on 1/31/11.  Only 20 days til my 4 year anniversay!!  (praise dance) 

Last weigh in was in May....

HW 327
SW 318
LW 175.4
CW 170.8

Wow..who would have thought I would become a OH slacker???? Lol well here are my stats since my last update on 2/8/10.....

HW 327
SW 318
LW178.8
CW 175.4

So last week I celebrated my 3 year surgery anniversary.....I went in for my check and all was well and I actually weighed in 1 lb less than I did last year! Woohoo!  I have a renewed sense of determination right now and I am liking not feeling so out of control of things....Working out in a boot camp like setting and it is the challenge I needed...My routine was getting a bit dull and boring..so I had to shake things up a bit.  I am week 4 of the 8 week program and thinking of doing the course one more time...for another 8 weeks...Then go back to my regularly scheduled program.  My vitamin D levels were still bordline even though I am taking super dosage of supplements from my doctor......so I am not sure what is going on with that....Iron levels were good.....and I am happy to finally be back under 180 that I just dont know wha to do...in the past year it has been like when ever I get there, I start to not eat right and gain back up to 180 or more...its almost as if I am afraid to loose the weight again...but we can do this!  I have not come this far to slid back down the slope of morbid obestity...I know too well that even with WLS, weight gain is possible and its hard to get back off.  The surgery is just a tool and if you dont work it, it will NOT work.  So there.......Hope you all are having blessed journeys in life!! 

Take care

HW 327
SW 318
LW180.2
CW 178.8

So I have not posted since Nov and that is sad sad sad...didn't even get on here for my 3 year anniversay which I just had..woohoo!!!!  But anyway..here is my info:


HW 327
SW 318
LW183.4 (Nov 2)
CW 180.2

Well this is a true Monday Morning way in for a change:


HW 327
SW 318
LW185.8 (may 19) cant belive it has been that long since I been on here!
CW 179 (morning weight) 183.4 (night weight)

This is not titled Monday Morning weigh as it is almost Wednesday now..


HW 327
SW 318
LW185.8 (may 4)
CW 185