Doing It 4 Them

My daughter has two kayaks in our shed. Maybe I should take up kayaking...

I am 14 days post-op and am down 18.1 lbs I have to take another moment to thank my heavenly father above. Father I give you all the glory, the honor and praise. Thank you for my health. Thank you for seeing me through my surgery. You were there every single step of the way. I love you father God! Amen!

I have finally got my approval. I am now waiting on my surgery date. I had to go off and the crazy liason women that was not doing her job very well. This lady kept telling me that it would be at least another 2 months before it would even possible go the insurance for approval. I Flipped my lid. I spoke with the insurance lady and she moved my information to the list for the day for approval and it came in today. I can't believe that I might be on that loser bench by the end of Feburary. Keep fingers croshed. :D

If you have a good marriage this should not apply to you. Treat your wife like a queen and she will treat you like her king. A good marriage is wonderful. My husband could weigh anything and I would adore him, and vice versa. Do not let those words scare you! God Bless.

This looks so good!

Our dinner.. 10 outta 10
Balsamic chicken with Roasted Vegetables

Dannon light & fit greek yogurt blends are good. I believe the banana cream has 7 grams of sugar and 12 grams of Protein. Walmart sells them for $1.
I'm still preop but I'm hoping I can handle it after surgery.

I must applaud you for your enthusiasm and support here! I am going to try my best to stick to the boards, so when your time comes round that I can cheer you on like you've been doing for all of us!
I may not respond or comment on everyone's posts here, as some get missed as it's hard to navigate by phone at times. But I try to read them, sometimes I'm feeling like bad and it's all I can do to just read and find comfort in everyone encouraging and lifting each other up thru the good, bad and ugly times.
Just wanted you and everyone to know I appreciate it from the bottom of my heart! Thank you all for being sparkly, sunshine faces! It makes the journey even better! :-D

So I've texted my fingers to cramping, lol! You all are so awesome!
I'm 3 days out, already in soft foods per guidelines here in Sweden. And do far have eaten cottage cheese, cream cheese on hard bread, a meatball and mashed potatoes. All went down fine, and chewing till it's liquid, kinda gross ate a while. I want scrambled eggs which is on my ok list but I'ma little leary as many have trouble with them. In waiting fir after 2 weeks, I can't imagine vomiting this early out. Getting in 1.5 liters of h20 is my focus. I can eat about an ounce or less of food then I'm hiccurping, hiccup/burp. Still gassy and try to walk around but in truly exhausted with most activity. Still self injecting a nightly heparin shot, they are stinging less now. I have no appetite and would rather not eat, but I have head hunger and cravings. Good I have no appetite to even want to follow thru on them.
Keep aiming for your goals! Until next time

Started at 306 may 2013. As of this week 178.

Hello.
For years I have considered weight loss surgery but finally started the process in July of 2013. My surgeon is Dr. Robert Quinlin at Ruby Memorial Hospital in Morgantown, WV. My surgery is Monday, January 13, 2014. Quinlin and his team have been phenomenal so far.
My highest weight was 334lbs in July. I have since lost 14lbs and am at 320lbs. I am 5'6" and 41yrs old.
I have been big most of my life but that never kept me from participating in life nor were there any limitations until the past few years. When I weighed 270 five years ago, I began to realize the consequence of aging and carrying the weight and gained 60 MORE pounds. This last 60lbs has basically left me exhausted and miserable. It's all I can do sometimes to get to work, keep the house clean, and ...exist. The limitations happened within 5 years and then I was faced with the reality of consequence of working night shift, convenient eating, eating at night, sleeping during the day. It sounds silly but one day I just looked in the mirror and wondered when and how did this happen? Or better yet, how did I let my weight get so out of control?
I am a food enthusiast, not so much sweet things but more drawn to bread and doughy things. And soda!
This week I am on the pre-op liquid diet [high Protein, sugar free Jello, sugar free popscicles, and broth]. It has been very difficult but it is almost over. I made it! Tomorrow morning it's Clear liquids only. Kudos to those of you doing two weeks of liquids.
99% of the people in my life are supportive of this decision. The others think I can lose the weight on my own. But they cannot possibly imagine the convergence of misery that has resulted in this decision. Sometimes I even think "oh my god, you are really doing this!?"...then I nod and think "YES I AM!"
My parents are my biggest support. I thank the Lord everyday that they are here for me.
My anxiety comes and goes. I find myself more anxious in preparing...having the dogs taken care of for three days, the packing of the hospital bag, having clean sheets on the bed for when I arrive back home but I am sure Monday morning I will battling my inner frenzy. Even so, I am ready. Whatever it takes. Fall down seven times, stand up eight.
Tomorrow I will do before pics. And maybe I will figure out how to get a profile picture.
Thanks for reading. It's truly wonderful that technology at least provides this channel of support, experience, sharing, and understanding.

Well my time is almost here! Monday is my big day. I have been on a two week diet and it has been the hardest two weeks of my life! I had a few slips here and there but I stuck with it. I am down 15 pounds so far! Tomorrow I start Clear Liquids. Then nothing after midnight. Surgery is at 1:30 in the afternoon. I can't wait to be on the looser bench. Congrats to everyone this month!

I will be praying and cheering for you on Monday! My surgery is @ 10:00am. Congratulations on the 15 pounds and the two week struggle. Bravo! Let's do this!

Here ya go:
Before:

After:

Gained 240 pounds between us.
Sorry...kidding....reverse everything.

Thank you all for responding. Your kind words, encouragement, and advice are very much appreciated. I have an upcoming appt with my dr to discuss sleep and depression. I'm very optimistic and my husband and children have been wonderful at supporting me. I'm proud to say that I've upped my Protein and do what activity I can in regards to my disability and I've upped my Water and using a food journal and so far I'm down 2.8lbs!! It's a start and I'm ecstatic over it!!! My son is overweight and we've been doing this together. He's a precious boy and is excited to be doing this as a team with mom!! I feel better today than when I originally posted this thread. I've prayed, put my best foot forward, and I'm looking forward, not behind me. Thank you all for helping me. This site is a blessing! It makes a world of difference to know I'm not alone in a crowded room, I have others that understand the ups and downs, defeats and best of all victories in this journey. I thank The Lord that He lead me here and for all of you that have taken time out to listen and offer me help. I will keep you all posted!! God bless!!

I have not lost any friends but they do treat me differently. They r now my food police and watch every thing I eat. Always asking "can u eat that?" It's funny sometimes, they think we only have baby food I guess. I didn't tell most of them until I had the surgery. I'm 15 months out and now the smallest of them. Of course they feel I'm too small lol I wear a 6 and i am 5'4. It's taken them sometime but it's getting back to normal. Buy it was weird for awhile. I tried not to talk about it with them so I used this site to Celebrate all my successes, like pound lost and sizes lost.

My surgery is Wednesday 1/15/14! I'm excited and nervous and scared!!!! I am having an open RNY and have been on my pre op diet since last week, Sunday I start my liquid diet. So far on the pre op diet I have lost 11 pounds. I am so ready to lose so much more. I am taking my tablet to the hospital with me so I will be on this app since they have free wi-fi! I am determined to get up and move and walk as much as I can while I am in the hospital, of course they make you anyway. I am going to try to be proactive and walk more than they tell me to though. Apparently, I will be in the hospital a minimum of 4 nights since I am having the open surgery instead of laproscopic surgery. I had a lap bad in 2006 and it had to be removed in an emergency surgery 4 days later because they perforated my stomach when it was placed, so they had to remove it and repair my stomach. So I went through all of that for nothing! Nothing meaning I didn't get to use the lap band as it was intended! So now here I am almost 8 years later, having the RNY! I had the lap band because I didn't want to get my insides rerouted! My sister had the sleeve in 11/2012 and has lost 110 pounds and I have the same surgeon. I am ready to be on the losers bench as everyone says!

Don't let anyone tell you where you should be weight wise. You decide when you are satisfied then work on maintaining that. I am honestly not sure why people think it is ok to tell a former fat person what they should weigh? I am starting to get that now too (even at 162) and it boggles my mind. I would never presume to tell someone they are too fat so why would I say yoy are getting too skinny? It is our bodies, we have to live in them and so it is about your confort zone. Don't make yourself crazy about a number on a scale iit doesn't define you.

short and sweet.....you are still recovering from major surgery.
so stop weighing constantly
the first month is for basically healing and getting your mind set in the game..
weight loss varies for many reasons and each person is different..
do not worry not losing weight right now
follow your dr's guidelines..stick with it no matter what
eating to soon could hurt yourself..do not take that risk

soon, very soon, you will notice a big difference...you must heal first
and the best thing you can do is realize this is a process and not an overnight miracle

Got the call Friday my pre op class/testing is jan23rd surgery jan28th. Excited but super nervous.

I have Jan 16th surgery date. I've waffled, considered postponing, but today I'm doing it on Jan 16th. I have pre-op labs on Tuesday, Jan 7 because otherwise I'd have to do the labs after my Jan 9 9:30 a.m. appointment with the surgeon. I can't fast until 11 a.m. because of my diabetes. As it is, the earliest I can get my labs is 9:30 and that will be hard. By 9:30, I have intense hunger headache, my sugars start rising if I don't eat -- I am Type I, it works a little different than Type II. My diabetes seems erratic. Why do my sugars rise when I have been fasting since midnight. by 11 a.m. I could be at risk of low blood sugar and passing out.
The scheduler rescheduled but still, 9:30 is the first blood draw appointment. Duh. Lots of bariatric patients have issues like mine, related to low blood sugar if they gast too long.

Oh well . . so a week from Thursday is Jan 16th. I still feel deep ambivalance. I have told very few people because I was getting so much negative push back.
Fortunately my primary care doc is very supportive. She says professional doctor colleagues of hers have had it and all are very glad.

I can't wait for my knees to not hurt because of my weight. That will take a while but not all that long.
This evening, walking to my building's laundry room, I had a flash of seeing myself turning the corner of that hallway in the future wearing size ten jeans. Right now, 18W jeans are snug . . so a size ten seems teeny weeny. In my flash into the future, I was wearing skinny black jeans, a long sleeve black top, ordinary dull clothes but I looked awesome anyway. Soon -- within the year, I should be able to live that dream.

I have a good friend who had a sleeve 18mos ago. People who met in here created a private Facebook page. I've been reading and asking questions there for the past 7 months or so. But now I really need to be talking to people who are at my same stage. Has anyone considered creating. FB group page? It's private, requires an invitation and it a lot better format that in here. Just a thought.

Adorable! Congrats! Thought I'd share my niece's twins too. Hope that's ok. They were born Oct 23.

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Is it bad that my husband is eating pizza and I want to clobber him?

Day 1 went well. 2 protein/fruit shakes and vegetable Soup. My goal is shakes, veggies, ff yogurt, sf Jello and Popsicles for 7 days. I'm hoping to lose the 5lbs I gained last month before my next appt on the 13th. I set my alarm for 6am to try and get in some exercise tomorrow morning.
I thought about waiting til after the new year, but I'm sure that was just my brain trying to talk me out of getting healthy!
I hope everyone had a great weekend!