OleHippieGal

I thought I would start my journey to share with so many, its my first one, and was very nervous, Please have a look at my Youtube vid and inside my life
http://youtu.be/HOqS288gzxU

I just bought 3 different containers, the chocolate splendor, and the chicken and the unflavored.
I cant use real milk because i am lactose intolerate, so I am going to use fat free lactaid. i love that milk. but i will use 1/2 milk and 1/2 Water. I hope its good.

thank you Dave

Just emailed!

I like having egd's too! Lol the drugs are wonderful!!!

How about when you watch tv and you see some of those commericials and before your mouth would drool for the stuff, or you would get those rumblings and growls in your stomach because you wanted it. do you still get that pain? some commercials should be out lawed just saying

Pure Protein chocolate ready to drink (30 grams protein)
4-5 ice cubes
1 scoop beneprotein unflavored (6 grams protein)
3-4 drops pure mint extract
1 tbsp sugar free Chocolate Syrup
Magic bullet = chocolatey minty smoothie!!!
Amazingness!!!

this is almost me to a T, hubby doesnt talk about it at all, doesnt ask me anything except that he will be there for surgery, I think he is afraid I will ask his 400 lb ass to do it too, but I dont care what he does, he has been overweight since he was 5, claims he knows how to lose weight but chooses not to, whatever, I am ready and almost done, just waiting for the surgery. I dont have any close friends here in Missouri, all my friends are in dallas or mississippi, so yea I am so alone, and wished I had a friend to do this with here close by.

Amazing comments y'all thanks it really helps

Just becareful who adds you as a friend like yesterday some "supposely" chick added me and commented on one of my post, and was chatting like she was on a date site. i was like WTH
she added me to her friends, I checked out her profile and said she was 6'5 and 80 lbs at surgery.
she was from the states it appeared. said she had surgery back in 88. just really creepy.
anyway i did report her as spam and reported the profile and deleted myself as her friend.
dont need no weirdos please. :ph34r:

Couldnt have said it better myself, food IS EVIL!!!!! it is not your friend the devil puts it there for temptation just like alcohol and drugs. got to make that stiick in your mind, and yea me too. lol please let my next addiction be exercise and cleaning. much more healthier

I am so glad I don't have to worry about that anymore being an older woman I have no desires for such stuff anymore thanks to menopause and the fact that I did so much of that stuff in my younger years I hope to never ever see another penis ever. Haha don't tell the hubs. But with him at 400 lbs he surely has to have a clue. This ain't Easter and I am not going hunting for eggs ya know what I mean

haha its called "doing the pee pee dance" we all do it, even men do too lol

I haven't had the EKG or chest X-ray. They might be part of my pre op? Done all the others. I just don't want to diet ever again. I will eat for my pouch only.

I'm pre op and very depressed and stressed - the way I look at it, I CAN'T FEEL ANY WORSE THAN I ALREADY DO! Anything would be an improvement at this point. And, I gotta say, this whole insurance process isn't helping!! I think getting over the insurance woes, the pre-op testing, the night-before-surgery-jitters - I'll be so exhausted that getting the dang operation over with will bring on a flood of relief and it will only get better from there!
You have to have a positive attitude. You WILL get through this. You WILL feel better. You WILL succeed. You WILL be happy.
"Trying" to be or do anything already implies failure. You have to have the will to see the bigger picture, to keep your eye on the prize, and KNOW IT WILL GET BETTER.
I woulda thought an old hippie lady would know that a positive attitude gets you through anything. Stay strong! You've survived this long as a heavy person - that speaks volumes for your capacity to adapt already! Life isn't easy being heavy. But every movement you make will be easier when you lose weight. Just eliminating the depressing effects of pain, pain you may not even recognize because you've had it so long, will change your overall mood.
I know I'll probably have body issues for my whole life. Things I'll want to change or whatever - like most women have. I'm okay with that. I'm not okay with being the biggest person I know. I'm not okay with struggling up my FOUR porch stairs. I'm not okay with cracking ankles and knees at age 32 because my poor legs were not made to sustain this weight. My body is a mess, I don't expect that to change completely by losing weight (if anything, things could get reallll ugly!). But being accepted by society is so important to me. I bully myself harder than anyone, but I'm so fragile to society because I've been ridiculed too many times. I recognize how I'm treated differently, and I know I'm a smart person! I know I have valid, thoughtful opinions. I know I'm a great, funny, talented person - but being severely overweight, no one sees that!
Wow. This reply got really long. Sorry bout that. I need a therapist stat! LOL

I have been reading so many of your post alot of them, I am in 3 different support groups, here, Facebook, and sparkpeople. I have read the post of folks going in for surgery, 4 days post op, and even up to 5 years post op. I have read about the weight losses, and great going for you!!,
I have read the pain in my side. the dumping, and all that, and the excitment to buy new clothes.
but not once have i read any post that says I feel so good now. I cant believe i could feel this good.
I need to know??
Yes i have read if i had a choice knowning what i know now about the surgery and the pains and stuff would I do it again. and most of everyone says hell yea in a second. and thats awesome
BUT ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?? is it everything you thought it would be? are you off the medications that you had to take for diabetes? and cholestrol, and high blood pressure. that the surgeons claim you will be off of? What about your depression, because i know most of us are depressed from being obese. are you still depressed?
I am scared and i just need everyone to be honest please.
thank you
janice

I do know its my decision, trust me on that. i just want to hear from folks who have had it, putting aside the yonger people who are under 40, because hell yea i would be excited as all get out to be able to get my groove back and buy new clothes and find a good man, but I am not looking for any of that. I am 56 years young married, and have a grand daughter. i just want my activity level up and just feel good. I am not looking for depression answers that isnt what i mean. I just want to know after it is all said and done are YOU happy? i appreciate all the good tips advice, and comments. Oh i am having the surgery dont get me wrong. next time i take my 5 yr old granddaughter to the zoo, i want to be smiling the whole way around it and pushing her to the next place.

I have been reading so many of your post alot of them, I am in 3 different support groups, here, Facebook, and sparkpeople. I have read the post of folks going in for surgery, 4 days post op, and even up to 5 years post op. I have read about the weight losses, and great going for you!!,
I have read the pain in my side. the dumping, and all that, and the excitment to buy new clothes.
but not once have i read any post that says I feel so good now. I cant believe i could feel this good.
I need to know??
Yes i have read if i had a choice knowning what i know now about the surgery and the pains and stuff would I do it again. and most of everyone says hell yea in a second. and thats awesome
BUT ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?? is it everything you thought it would be? are you off the medications that you had to take for diabetes? and cholestrol, and high blood pressure. that the surgeons claim you will be off of? What about your depression, because i know most of us are depressed from being obese. are you still depressed?
I am scared and i just need everyone to be honest please.
thank you
janice

I do know its my decision, trust me on that. i just want to hear from folks who have had it, putting aside the yonger people who are under 40, because hell yea i would be excited as all get out to be able to get my groove back and buy new clothes and find a good man, but I am not looking for any of that. I am 56 years young married, and have a grand daughter. i just want my activity level up and just feel good. I am not looking for depression answers that isnt what i mean. I just want to know after it is all said and done are YOU happy? i appreciate all the good tips advice, and comments. Oh i am having the surgery dont get me wrong. next time i take my 5 yr old granddaughter to the zoo, i want to be smiling the whole way around it and pushing her to the next place.

Lol yea that's good what I won't buy for myself in food ole hubs will. All I care about is getting my energy back and to be able to move more actively I probably won't buy any clothes till I lose about 60 lbs I still have plenty of sizes in jeans and t shirts.
Thanks everyone

How about when you watch tv and you see some of those commericials and before your mouth would drool for the stuff, or you would get those rumblings and growls in your stomach because you wanted it. do you still get that pain? some commercials should be out lawed just saying

thanks yall, it really helps talking to you, I have faith that god will see me through this. My endo just scared me yesterday so i had all these questions come up
thank you

Thats what i want to know from the 1000 of you folks on here.
I am 56, i am type 2 diabetic that takes 750 mg of metformin XR 3 times a day,
my cholesterol went up 1 time and was put on pravastatin, and because i am a diabetic doc puts me on high blood pressure so that the pressure doesnt build up on my kidneys from the diabetes, and in my entire life never had high blood pressure. it was never over 124/70 always just a little lower. now with the freaking pill which i discuss with my doc to let me 1/2 it for once a day, my pressure still runs low, even at one time it was 95 /62 that is too low. it usally stays now around 103/61 which i think is too low, but i will live with it. I dont care how i will look. I just want to stop being the biggest person in pictures, I want to be healthy enough to keep up with my 5 yr old granddaughter and do stuff like walk around the zoo and fairs and stuff with out giving out. and I refuse to use a wheel chair. I am not disabled. just fat. i havent ever been able to lose more then 20 lbs. its so freaking hard. and i didnt gain weight till i was 28, and then had depression so much i went for confort foods. chocolate addicted. i just want to feel normal and feel good and get off these meds. if it takes surgery then it will. i just want to know i wont still be depressed later like i am now. thank you for the comments

I have been reading so many of your post alot of them, I am in 3 different support groups, here, Facebook, and sparkpeople. I have read the post of folks going in for surgery, 4 days post op, and even up to 5 years post op. I have read about the weight losses, and great going for you!!,
I have read the pain in my side. the dumping, and all that, and the excitment to buy new clothes.
but not once have i read any post that says I feel so good now. I cant believe i could feel this good.
I need to know??
Yes i have read if i had a choice knowning what i know now about the surgery and the pains and stuff would I do it again. and most of everyone says hell yea in a second. and thats awesome
BUT ARE YOU HAPPY NOW?? is it everything you thought it would be? are you off the medications that you had to take for diabetes? and cholestrol, and high blood pressure. that the surgeons claim you will be off of? What about your depression, because i know most of us are depressed from being obese. are you still depressed?
I am scared and i just need everyone to be honest please.
thank you
janice