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So I am nearing my 4 year anniversary of RNY and I find myself a carb-o-holic again.  I also realize I can eat more then I want to.  So I am going to go back to basics... The 5 Day Pouch Test....

Basically the days right after surgery... Day 1 & 2 strictly liquids.   3 & 4 ground meat. Day 5 lean meat.  Protien being the focus.  Only a guy I work with put a spin on it... we are only going to drink water and protein shakes during work hours and each cheat results in a $5 penalty payable to the other person.  :)  Nothing says willpower like a few Lincolns!  :) 

Day 1 --- It is not so bad.  (Maybe since it is the weekend and I have my diet coke)  I made this decision after eating garlic knotts for breakfast... Since then I have had a yogurt and a cup of soup.  2 DC's and 3 bottles of water... I will more than likely wake up tomorrow and want food but no can do buckaroo.

Coincidentally the OH event in O.C. is on my 3 year anniversary of RNY.  Sign?  I think this means I must go.  3 years out you realize it is a tool not to be abused.  I can choose to eat to live or live to eat.  :)  So who all is going other then TINK and JOHN?

Kaydee

So I finally posted the pics that my surgeon took before and after.  I forgot how my body looked pre-op.  It was a good reminder that I have NOTHING to bitch about now.  Still want more skin off my stomach and of course my thighs but I think my boobs are amazing lol.  I have p/w protected the pics because I dont want men looking at them :)  They arent goin to be having their tits done so no need right?  haah!  My surgeon in case anyone asks was Thomas Nguyen in Orange County, CA.  His website http://www.cosmeticinstitute.org/  I love love love his staff and the doctor too.  He helped me with a lot of my decisions that I really would have made poor choices had I not listened.  Such as not waiting to see if my right breast would finally drop the implant or saline/sylicone.  And Heather the office manager is amazing!  She helped decide the size implant to go with :)  I really couldn't be any more thrilled with a surgeon.  Plus he has done a LOT of WLS patients as his office is behind Dr. LaPorte(sp?) who is another OC RNY Dr.  I literally accidentally ended up in Nguyen's office because my insurance covered him and he had the same name as my RNY dr.  Talk about blessings!  Okay it is time to get on the motorcycle. 

Well it has been awhile since the last time I blogged.  I am totally healed from my plastic surgery.  I still plan on doing my thighs and I think I am going to get more skin removed from my stomach.  But for now I am loving my new body and boobies!  I am finally free from my suffocating relationship.  I couldnt convince him enough that I wasnt going anywhere and that my new body wouldnt effect us.  So screw it.  Moving on to bigger and better men.  And I am going to OK to possibly rekindle an old flame.  Always wondered what if with this one so now I will know.  :D    For those that are still on their way to skinny kingdom it is not so much fun to deal with the relationship aspect of body changing.  Stay single until you are at your goal.  Thats what I wished I had done.  Oh well.  Hindsight 20/20 RIGHT?  I posted some new pics in bikini and my hot little black dress.  Hope all my friends are doing well.  I can see ERIN is a hot mama.  Smokin! 

Miss you guys!!

Ill blog again when I get back from OKLAHOMA.  Does anyone think I am nuts for going there for 3 weeks.  Guess we will really know if that flame is dead.  hahahahah

KAYDEE

So I slept most of the day because I WAAAY over exerted myself yesterday.  I drove to my sisters (50 miles) and then went to eat and just got more and more sore.  Muscle relaxer didnt even really help.  I then went to my Grandparents house that I have not seen in 4 years because of some family drama.  Sitting there for 3 hours took its toll on me too.  I deffinately CANNOT be doing that much.  I felt like hell all day and then got a call at 1am that my dad's best friend died.  I want so much to drive to my dad's and be with him but 4 hours in the car seems like torture.  I just dont think I can do it.    My right breast still hasnt gotten the memo that the muscle needs to take a chill pill.  I wear this compression garment that feels like it eats my armpits while pushing down my boob.  It needs to get with the program.  Everything else looks amazing.  I will put on my bikini tomorrow after the shower and get a pic so people can see just how unreal the results are so far.   I miss my guy... he needs to come back from Utah already.  I am over this snowboarding trip. 

So I was 2 weeks out from my boobs, arms and upper back and 1 week post op from LBL.  Doctor was thrilled with the results, pulled off all the tape and took out the drain tubes.  Those things are GROSS!  They are inside you about a foot deep.  I was expecting an inch or two to come out but nooooo... he kept pulling and I had to lay down it made me wanna throw up.  My swelling on my lower stomach was from not wearing my binder properly.  Go figure I am too tall so the directions the thing comes with dont apply to me.  Stupid!  I got fitted for my Veronique garment that I get to wear forever.  They were laughing saying I am like one of those books where you could change the head, top and bottom of the body with flips of a page.  I am XS arms at 9 1/2 inches.  An XL bust with 34 inch around but big boobies.  A medium in my waist at around 34 in and then a Large hip at 44 inches.  Mind you I had a little swelling but I am deffinately an hour glass.  At 6'1 I deffinately look very thin.  I want to loose about 16 more lbs and then I will be happy.  I want to be 175 where I thought I was until we discovered a lil cord under my scale incorrectly weighing people. :/  I cannot even begin to say already how much I love my doctor and the results arent even fully apparent!!!!

So I survived my LBL.  By the grace of God, amazing nurses, and loving friends who are family along with my family.  I spent the night at the hospital.  It was kinda nightmareish because they couldnt get ahold of the doctor.  I couldnt give a shit as long as my pain was zero and I had help moving.  They were going to keep me until monday.  It was really neat that my night nurse had RNY 8 months ago and lost 140.  She was my fave along with the PCA that was assisting her.  I deffinately will be writing a letter for them.  They made me feel better and were totally sweet.  Peeing was a huge ordeal.  They almost had to cathiter me but I begged for a lil more time and gave them a lil more pee each time they came in and finally the bladder started workin again.  Tori, my best friend and total guardian angel slept in the hospital with me.  She passed out so hard she never even heard me get up which was huge to do cuz it freakin hurrrrrrrt!  I was on Delotted for pain with a PC pump.  I got to control it.  2ML ever 20 min was max .  It made me itch from head to toe and anything I could reach while awake got a darn good rub.  lol  Lets discuss the JP Drains... right leg... left leg and dead center right above my YOU KNOW WHAT!  EWWW  I had to perform a search and rescue to change the bandages.  They had them all twisted in guaze and tape that nothing would come free.  Little scissors are my friend.  So going home was fun.  It hurt but I figures blah suck it up and deal with it if you dont faint it will make u stronger.  And if you do faint you are small enough to be picked up and carried.  Boyfriend brought a recliner chair you see in pics.  LIFESAVER.  Borrow one before plastics... it is definately making it easier for me to get up and down.  I had a bunch of people stopping by today.  They made me laugh... laughing HURTS!  Dont try it!  And remember which friends are too funny... save them for later visits.  Michael is a riot and I swear laughing is why I hurt tonight.  But I love him.  I asked for a blender for XMAS - new years res is to eat healthy.  I am a total cheater.  I chew gum, drink diet coke, eat fast food, drink thru straws and I still have amazing results!  But it is no longer just about being thin because I dont eat much so staying thin isnt hard.  It is about overall health.  So... crackin the whip.  First I wanted a good protein shake.. which Michael made for me - it has all my green veggies for a day, all fruit for a day, and 50g of protein... and it tastes GOOD!!!!!!  I did not think that this was possible!  THANK YOU MICHAEL... LOVE YOU!  So blender was broken in and i drank a darn good shake.  YAY!  I cannot wait until I am mobile again and  not puffy!  It is hard when you are so independent and become completely codependent.  Boyfriend and best friend crack whips around here.  I am not allowed to do anything on my own.  Love them but totally frustrating sometimes.  I dont know what I was thinking when I signed up for this... ADD cannot sit still for 3 weeks!  Time to crash!!!  Happy New Year friends!!!

I had my breast lift and aug, arms and upper back done this past thur.  I am in zero pain.  Never had any.  I love my surgeon.  I am tiny around my top and my boobies are looking good so far but I wont take them out of this scary looking granny bra.  My right arm swelled up pretty big because the iv missed the vein and went into the muscle which i hear is common although in all my surgeries I had never had it happen.  I cannot wait til my tummi and lower back are done this week!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Please be this easy!!!!!!!

So it is official I am losing my mind.  7 days to surgery and I now have a horrific eye twitch in my left eye that is driving me nuts! They gave me xanax which I am waiting to take until before bed.  RAWR!  I hope it mellows me out so I can sleep.  I can only imagine it is going to get more intense leading up to surgery day.  My surgery on the 24th is now at 830am.  So guess what that means folks... UP AT 5AM to be to the hospital at 6:30am.  I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON!  RAWR!  I did ask the doctor to send me pre-op pics so that everyone can see me unmasked.  No smoke... No mirrors... just me and all the skin.  :)  I will post them when I have them.  They are pretty disgusting.  I saw them when my best friend asked to see them.  How did Dave sit there and look at me while they were taken?  Gross! 

Pre-op appointment went great.  My hemoglobins are finally up to an 11.8 which is great compared to my 7.3 when I first started seeing the plastic surgeon.  All is a go for 9:30am on Dec 18th!  I get to be there at 7:30am!!! I AM NOT A MORNING PERSON... Apparently no one got that memo.  Oh well.... I wont sleep the night before so it will be all good.  I think I am going with 750CC for the boobs... gotta go with Silicone because Saline doesnt look great under thin skin.  Deflate DDD boobs to B's and then try and reinflate... not so bueno!  Under the muscle it is and we might do the flanks because I dont want wings on my back and I dont know if they will be cured with the LBL or BA.   They took close to 100 pictures and I had a blast making Dave turn bright red!  hahaha I figured since i was naked in front of the camera I would ask the administrator to take his next.  She said, Oh that sounds fun.  And he turned BRIGHT RED :)  Lookout world... cuz here i come :p