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Hello to all and I hope you all are having as good a new year as I am.  New year and new beginnings and now is the time for me to start working on me.   Which means I will now stop carrying around old pics of me prior to surgery and relish in the new body and life that I have hard fought for.   I am in no way ashamed of how I use to look but its time to put away the pics and stop looking back... my  life now is full of adventure and very busy days and nights.... i love my life now.  

I am just too proud to say that I have lost over 100lbs forever..when I started this journey I was well over 328 lbs...when I saw my doctor for the first time on 8-1-06 i was 328 exactly...I am currently 205 lbs a size 14 bottom and 11-12 on the top...I can wear size 12 dresses comfortably..and my shoe size went down from an 11wide to a 9.5B ...i have confidence all day long..i am just too happy in that respect and wish i had done this sooner....I do believe that everyone gets a chance to shine at least once in their life..and i truly believe that this is just my time to shine.  I have found love with a great person....my family life is just too happy for words....i am finally happy...i probably won't be posting much more after this...too busy living life to sit at some computer....but when i do get the chance i will update.  I am getting ready soon to post pics...just took some at Glamour Shots.....so before the end of the month hopefully...thanks again for the support and the before and after pics and the testimonies that inspired me to achieve this level of success for myself and i only hope that my testimonial will inspire someone else who may have the same doubts that I once did....thanks again ms. v.

sorry I haven't been online in such a long time...been having too much damn fun!!!!  Enjoying this new body of mine....what a complete joy it is to say that as of today I weigh 208 lbs. and that i now wear size 14 in pants and 11/12 to 13/14 in tops...and I wear a medium in scrubs instead of up to 5x as I did in the past.  I even went down in shoe sizes which  means now I can wear a size 9 in certain styles...talk about one happy gal here!!!!  Its still sort of surreal to me because now I carry pics of my old self around with me because there are people who look at me or who I meet and they do not tbelieve me when I say that I have had a gastric bypass!... you should see their faces!!!!  My mom is my biggest fan and for the first time in my life I am able to go into her closet and wear some of her clothes...that is so damn cool that you just have to be in my shoes to know how special that is to me!!!!  I love my mama!!!!!  and I love her clothes too!!!! I feel and act healthy...no complications  except for my overeating moments...but all in all just wonderful...I am actually at a size that I don't want to leave...I have always been a big girl and I don't want to be a beanpole...gotta  have some meat on this frame!!!  But I am extremely happy...and blessed ...and if the occasion would arise again for me to have this surgery ...yes I would do it again..in a new york minute!!!!  Best decision I made so far in my 30s....v.

down 273 lbs..total loss of 54 lbs. and I am now wearing XL scrubs...no more 3x-5x...no more 2x either..woohoo!!!!!!!

Went for my 6 weeks checkup...down to 286 lbs which makes my total weight loss 42 lbs since I started seeing Dr. Yu.....that is truly wonderful!!!!!  I feel good...so far not one complication.  I just joined a gym last week and now we are working out damn near everyday!!!!  Me and my son that is... and loving it!!!  Can't wait to see what the next 6 weeks are going to look like!!!  I did have a bit of a slow moment but we have since put the cheese down and now we are really looking at the carbs and sodium and fat content with both eyes....wish everyone success in their journey...until next time...v.

Down to 296.5 lbs...yea baby!!!!

Down to 302 lbs.

9-26-06  Ok I am officially one week and one day post op and now is the time to let everyone know how I really feel... and that is great!  I had my one week checkup today and I have lost exactly 10 lbs. since surgery (18 lbs total from official preop weight of 327 lbs) and I am sitting outside on my patio today enjoying this wonderful weather and just comtemplating life... so far so good.  Staying optimistic keeps my spirits up while staying realistic of the goal that I have set for myself and my new "life" helps me keep everything that I have done so far in perspective.  So now its time for me to address my last post where I mentioned the extreme nausea that I was experiencing at that time.  The real culprit was not the surgery but the Lortab elixir that I was taking that was making me sick...before surgery I have always had a problem taking medications with codeing and as a nurse I know that I was not truly allergic to codeine but I knew that if I take codeine with food then I can "tolerate" it.  But post surgery when my new stomach was adjusting and mostly empty, taking that Lortab elixir was not a good thing.  Got myself a good dose of nausea that did not go away until I put something on my stomach and as anyone knows once you are nauseated eating is the last thing you want to do.  That lasted for two days and then I started taking some Liquid Tylenol Extra Strength and all pain and nausea issues disappeared thereafter.  Been basically sitting at home bored...and trying to exercise.  I live on the 3rd floor of my apartments so I have been walking my dog twice a day...walking and walking.  Going to the mall and SuperWalmart helps too.  Trying to get my protein in and learning what I can and can't have...testing the waters so to speak...most of my hunger is head hunger now...the keep for me is to stay active.  And there is only so much I can do inside my house.  I have always had an active lifestyle and that use to make me wonder why am I carrying all this weight around in the first place because my life and activities did not match the outer me.  Very excited about the future to come and will try to keep this profile update.  Signing out for now...v.

Ok I am home from the hospital as of today and I am feeling sore but I am okay.  My second day postop I became nauseated and started vomiting...not pleasant at all.  And I have to remind myself to drink drink drink in order to avoid dehydration.  That has been the hard part because as of right now all I really want to do is sleep.  But I have been warned that I can get dehydrated so I am trying my best to be compliant.  I am just so happy to be home right now...but I am tired right now so I am going to lay down...type to you later