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Jillian's Journey

A blog by JillianMarie73 in General

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My Personal Stories and Weight Loss Journey

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With the Weight, So Too Do the Chains Drop

Well here we are. I have survived the first month of my gastric sleeve. Yesterday marked the one month date since I surrendered my stomach to the great nation of Mexico.   I can’t say it’s been a completely smooth ride, I’ve had my moments of restriction pain, nausea and frustration… and the three week stall threatened to crush my spirit plateauing me for a good 8 days, but at the end of my first month, I can say I have lost 16 lbs.   16 lbs man. That’s nothing to sneeze at. I have read many

Two Weeks Out!

I am feeling great!! Here are the stats:   Highest: 298 Pre-op 277 Surgery: 261 (I did 4 weeks pre-op voluntarily) Home: 271 (Fluid I guess?) Today: 252   25 since the start of my pre-op! 46 over all from my highest! WHOOP WHOOP! I can’t believe I am a scant 3 lbs away from my 240s… which I haven’t seen since 2005!! Then when I reach 230-235, I am going to try on my wedding dress from my second wedding – I am greedily hoping that day will be June 19 – the same day I tak

Star Medica Review - Novella

This is going to be a long one!   I would like to start by saying today is Tuesday, May 14th I am 4 days post op and am feeling absolutely WONDERFUL!! Currently as I sit here, I am sipping happily on my Isopure Alpine punch protein drink, have taken all of medicine, vitamins and had a nice cup of decaf orange pekoe tea without incident. If I have any complaint I would say it would be the constant “hunger” I am having… now I say that tongue in cheek because the stomach is a muscle… and the o

My Last Entry..... Pre-Op

So this is the last day I will be sitting comfortably at my desk and able to put up a proper blog entry before my surgery - Lucky you… I will actually have to shut up for a few days – a rare occurrence!   Tonight my sister and I drive out to my parents’ home in Brantford and drop off my son (which I anticipate being the hardest part of this journey)– and then off to the border of Niagara Falls to stay overnight beside the Buffalo Airport. My flight to El Paso leaves at 6 am and I should touch

The Undeniable Truth(s)

So, I did everything right and followed all the rules of a low carb, rich protien diet since April 08... was rewarded with a 21 lb weight loss... and then kicked in the face with a 10 pound regain.   I have waited patiently for week and the scales refuse to move. So, sadly I think it is time to update my ticker... it is what it is... and I am going to consider it a message...   This right here, is why I need my sleeve... to help lift me over rediculous hurdles and keep me focused on all the

Impatience, Poundage and Chocolate Covered Dreams

Well we are down to the final stretch… this time next week I imagine I will be walking around the Star Medica hospital, burping up a storm and not feeling too clever.   The faster time seems to fly, the slower time goes… does that make any sense? Every day seems to drag waiting for my surgery, even though it has been full of adventures (mainly involving Justin). I’m so anxious to get on with this journey and bring myself up through the back swing of recovery.   I have been reading scores o

Piss off Ghrelin, you're not the boss of me!

Ok here we go!! My sugery is two weeks from today and I am starting my own version of the Pre-Op diet!! If anyone has read my previous entries you will know that I decided to start cutting stuff back and out since the day my surgery was booked (April 1, 2013).   For the last two weeks I have been carb free and in dietary ketosis… so this week I have decided to go clear liquids only throughout the day, and one sensible low carb low fat protein rich meal for dinner – it will be chicken or fish w

Bumps in the Road to Happiness...

Im sad today so I am going to blog. It seems like everytime something wonderful is about to happen to me something dreadful has to happen at the same time. Why is that?   I finally had the pregnancy I had hoped so long for, and my bastard husband cheated on me. I forgave and things got better.   Charles was born, and had horrible reflux and suffered for months...but he got better, and my husband got worse... forcing us to move out.   I finally got free, started feeling better and bought

23 Days... tick tick tick....

I can’t believe it has already been 17 days since I booked my surgery. It seems moment to moment to be dragging (and that may be in a large part due to the fact that things are really slow at work right now for me). But 17 days? Really? I have been slowing chopping things out in my PRE Pre-Op diet and so far it has been fairly easy.   Starting on April 8th I decided I would try to stop eating all junk food (a bad habit I picked back up on over Easter) and drop caffeine out of my diet. Man w

I may be going it alone...

My boyfriend just received a letter from Passport Canada stating he is being denied his passport for past due Child Support. I know I know, I don’t condone it either but he IS paying his arrears, under an accepted payment plan so I just don’t get it. He’s making calls but it doesn’t sound hopeful. I’m really bummed out at the thought having to travel alone, not to mention I bought non-refundable plane tickets.   I'm sad.

Another First day... to the rest of my life.

So here I am. I have decided to take a step towards the final frontier of my personal happiness. My health.   I have been through a hell of a ride on my journey to today. I have struggled through a dysfunctional marriage to an abusive alcoholic, stood witness to the attack on New York City first hand, narrowly escaped death from sepsis blood poisoning, fought a ten year fertility battle, and buried a friend/lover taken far too young from brain cancer.   Life as a human being is hard enoug

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