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So when my boyfriend is not around I eat good, I do my three meals a day and stick to my calorie goal. The days he is off, Sunday and Monday, I go over my calories by sometimes 200-400 colories.... It's like I can't helped it.... My calorie allowance is 1,400 a day.

Informational Meeting – 6/25/13 Support Group – 7/2/13 Follow Up Support Group 8/13/2013 Surgeon consultation 8/12/13 Cardiac Evaluation 8/12/13 Dietician consultation 8/12/2013 Sleep Study 8/2/13 Blood Work 08/12/2013 Insurance approval - 7/12/13 Psychiatrist clearance 8/19/13 Letter of Medical Necessity 8/21/13 Nutrition Class 10/02/2013 Surgery date

I live in Liverpool, but moving to Syracuse Westcott area in September!!!. I am pre-op. lost 10 pounds since i started. Hopefully i get a date for November.

Syracuse ny pre op! Hopefully November date

Syracuse, ny here!!! Upstate bariactic dr McDonald.... Ironic name lol

Metabolic Reset Hunger Control Weight Loss Shake from Nature's Way, taste like chocolate milk.... and if you mix it with unsweeted almond milk its nice a thick, and not HORRIBLE lol.

Well the sleep Center call me today and told me that I tested positive for sleep apnea and is severe. So they schedule me appointment to go try the CPAP mask and machine and I have to stay overnight again. In part this will definitely get me approve as a medical necessity however, it's sad that I'm in this predicament. My mother and brother both suffer from this disease, and they let it get horribly bad. But I am going to do everything in my power to not end up with a trachea tube and in a position that I can't barely move. I met my surgeon already I'm in a supervised diet, I'm walking, I'm potion controlling. I'm doing this.

Well I'm here on one of the many steps before the Gastric Bypass Surgery, the sleep study. They at monitoring my sleep, movement and ban activity plus recording me asleep and recording sound. I don't know if its the weird feeling that someone is watching me sleep or all the cables but I am not even thinking of sleep. Well this is normal for me I go in to bed and I won't sleep for 2-3 hours. So I'm writing this.... So the room is hotel like, bed is comfy, temperature is perfect, tv in room, very quite in here, nice and dark room, lots lots of cables hooked all over my body specially my head. There is coffee on the way out and granola bars. Awesome roomy bathrooms. So it's not half bad. Just got to get over carrying all my cables to the bathroom hoping I do t drop the little machine in the toilet.... q

I started my own diet and I been trying really hard to stick to 1,400 calories a day, it's been very hard but I want to loose 15 pounds before the surgery it's a requirement... However It's been over 3 weeks and I have lost a whopping 3 pounds and gained 1. I sure thought I was going too loose more but nope! Turn out I stay wayyy to hungry all the time I have cut soda candy and other stuff I been eating healthier drinking shakes and what not. I finally got an appointment to meet my surgeon on August 12 ad a Sleep Study on the 2nd. Yay! However I been on vacation for the last 7 days, I have not been tracking my food but I been swimming a lot. I'm nervous about the sleep study. Staying overnight alone with some strangers it's just weird! But let's see, this is an adventure!

Hi, as you might have read, my name is Carmen. I am a mother of two, a 13 year old daughter, and a 9 year old son. Currently after 15 years working I am taking a break to continue my education. I am an EMT, and I am going to school for cosmetology. I been in the retail industry all my life. When I became and EMT, it was one if my great accomplishments, I was very happy. I started to work for a busy system in the City of Syracuse, and I was doing OK. At the end of my 15 hour days, I was in serious pain, but i got up every morning at 4am to go to work and do it all over again. But the pain got worst, i was barely able to stand on my feet less carry a heavy bag with an oxygen tank. I took a medical leave to address my condition. Resulting that I have arthritis on my back and my knees are deteriorating and I have tendinitis on my wrist. Anyone with arthritis now that pain only gets worst and it never gets better, I started taking medications for the pain that wouldn't allow me to drive the ambulance in the state. So I had to extend my leave indefinitely. My neck started to hurt, along with my ankles, and even so I decided to start going to school for cosmetology more standing up and more wrist work, What was I thinking? I figure I need to continue working on something I like doing but I want to make more for my work, and I want to work when I want to ( when not in pain). Anyways Its been a journey I am half way my journey (http://bbgbeauty.blogspot.com). My brother ended up in the hospital, also my mother. My brother had developed sleepanea, a sleeping disorder mostly on obese people. He weight at almost 600 pounds. He had let himself go. He was in the hospital for many months until he was able to get out he now weights around 550. He can barely walk, or breathe he ended up with a tracheal tube for life or until he gets his weight under control. Now my mother is battling her foot to diabetes in the hospital and they ha to amputate all her toes. I go trough a lot with them and finally get them into my home and they doing a little better. But its far from over, my mom goes again more times to the hospital and still struggling to keep her leg now in top of everything my boyfriend ends up in the emergency room because of his diabetes. I said to my self no more... I decided I am not going to end up like them, to this date I don't have diabetes, I might be in the border of Sleepanea, I might already have it. I don't have high cholesterol but my blood pressure is very high and I take medications for these. I talk to them about loosing weight and that we could do it together, they seem reluctant to the idea of eating less and healthier. I guess I am on my own right now. Each person's health is their own decision. My mom is somewhat supportive, she "tried to keep me under control with sweats" and by trying i mean she waves them in front of me and says resist the temptations! lol . My boyfriend has gone so far to the info group and support groups in the area for me and have allow me to expend a little extra on healthy foods. We all know that healthy food is more expensive... but thats another topic. So I went to the information group to gather information about the Gastric Bypass Surgery, and I have learn a lot. I also went online to research, and I been to support groups in the area. I filled my paperwork and submitted to the surgeons. I am awaiting a date to start the process. It should be this week. They called me last week but I was missing my doctors referral, which hopefully they faxed today. I been on a diet on my own so i can gradually start my transition to better eating. Its been hard. I am limited to 1,400 calories a day, witch is not much compared to what I was eating before. its like torture, to the point that I don't want to leave my room into the world because everything is food, advertised, in commercials, int he internet, on games, in my kitchen, my family and kids, across the street next door, its everywhere, the temptations are all there, its worst than drugs. And for someone that has been big since a child, and never been restricted on what I can eat because my motto was, "I am going to die anyways might as well die happy" Well, i rather die happy but not suffering restricted to a bed or not able to enjoy life. I want to be able to fit in the roller coaster so when my daughter goes in a date I can follow her and get in the same rides as her and her boyfriend. I want to be able to fit on normal clothes and spend $20 less on a shirt. I want to be able to run after my future grand kids, I want to be able to have a snore free sleep, and wake up energized, I don't want to be afraid of a stroke or diabetes. I want to keep all my limbs, I want to be able to work and make money! I want to be able to wash the dishes with less pain on my back and knees, and I want to be able to go back to being a great EMT and live a long healthy life. And more than anything I want to go to my birth country and shove it on their faces that I was able to loose weight and I ams till beautiful as I was before. So this is why I decided to do the gastric bypass. Even thou a lot of people say you can do it without the surgery, I might... but YES i am opting for the easier way, where I will have less chance of failure. Once my stomach is smaller, I will able to be full with less food thus being different from now, that I eat less but i am still hungry. And I don't care if people don't agree with me on doing this surgery, it my decision, and if I am weak for doing it, so be it. Pre-Operation: Currently I weight 280 pounds I lost 3 pounds in 2 weeks. Here are some of my current pics, They are gross, but I want you to have an idea of the real situation and have a visual concept of my progress.

Lately he's doing better. We went shopping together for good food he helped me look at nutrition facts downloaded recepit for him to cook, went to the appointment and waited two hours for me, bought me stuff to helpe like a food scale and whey shake.... I think he was nervouse that I might of walk away like one of his friends girlfriend did when she got the gastric bypass.

Not yet, he is thinking about it.

Congratulations!!!!, I too had my first surgeon meeting Yesterday 12th. I already had my EKG and lab work done, I already also did my sleep study, I been going to support groups, I met with the nutritionist, and already got my psyc app scheduled and my nutrition class scheduled as well. All i need is some test done and get a letter of medical necessity.. I am hoping for a November surgery date!! The surgeon says he requires a 2 week liquid diet, before the surgery.... thats not bad. and I need to loose 15 pounds before then.

Last night we got into an argument because he wanted soft ice cream and the kids too so I told him that they could and I will just have one of my sugar free pop sickles. He went and brought back to me a cup of ice cream , I told him why he did that, that he wasn't helping me, and he got mad and trew his away and mine in the garbage I said why would he wasted that money he could it just freeze it for the kids that he was being a brat because he could of avoid all that if he just would listen to me. And we stop talking for couple of hours. It's frustrating having to keep remind him that I want to loose weight, he has to loose weight to but apparently he doesn't want to. I invited him on a short walk and I beg him and he just yelled and said he didn't want to and went upstairs. What's the deal?

I use stiiv app, you can sink to my fitness pal and it gives you freebies for completing goals like I got two propel Water samples and coupons a $2 gift coupon for amazon mp3s and a coupon to get 50% off an iPhone case. It keeps me motivated. Also you can do marathons against friends and when you complete them they send water to one child in South America for one day. Very cool! I have a question... Last night I walked 2.4 miles and I felt great today I feel like I got hit by a truck, why is that? I'm still pre op.

Good luck!!!!!!

Thank you!!!

sleep study right now..

I am in the same boat as you, I lost 3 pounds before vacation then when I got back I gained 3 pounds... So I started back on my plan Morning- Metabolic Reset hunger Control shake with almond unsweetened Milk total 8oz.... Water, water, and more water NO SODA, I'm going to cut off ALL breads now then eat normally stop eatingat FAST food restaurants... eat VERY VERY SLOWLY chew chew and DONT be afraid to leave food in your plate wich is my biggest issue because i think of all the hungry people in the world and i feel gulty but im getting over it. keep looking at pictures on this website and document all your food intake....

Awesome! Thats has to be a GREAT feeling, not to immediately look for the "Plus Size" section when you enter a store.... I can't wait to enter a store and not have to look up to look for The Plus Size sign!!!

Err, great....

I started in June 25, I just got my first surgeon meeting appointment for August 12 my sleep study is the second. It feels like forever! I am hoping for at least a November surgery really want to bring the new year as a new person!

I'm from uostate ny too Liverpool ny