Amy D.

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I am almost done with my 6 month pre-op diet! To this day I have lost 62lbs, but my weight fluctuates a lot inbetween Nut appts!  My first initial appointment with Dr. Gorman, he went over the different types of WLS's! Sense then It has been a decision between the RNY or the VSG!!  Most of the time I have been thinking about the RNY because I know the RNY has a history of working for people!   I have my last NUT appt. on Thursday & have been thinking about the VSG!  The VSG is less invasive and also not messing with my intestines like the RNY would!!   I was wondering what others have experienced!! Can any of you share with me about your big decisions & what did you dislike the most?  

undecided!

Things have been going very well!!  Started smoking outside a lil over two weeks ago!!  I think I do pretty well when I am home!  But when I am @ work it is totally different!!  Just taking that part of it one day @ a time.  Friday makes it a month sense I've been going to the gym! 

Well yesterday was my 5th appt. & I have lost another 10 lbs!  And I can fit into a size 24 now!!  I have lost a total of 52 lbs so far!  I am very excited about the up coming months!!   My Nut told me tho after my next appt it could take 4-6 weeks for the Insurance Co. to approve me!  So that could even be November!  I feel like I've been waiting for this my entire life, well I guess I actually have!!

   

Two more to go!!  Appt went great!!  Lost another 10lbs ... a total of 42lbs pre-op!  I wanted to loose more, but a loss is a loss!   Very excited and the months are flying by!  Before I know it ... it will be 9/16 ... my last Nut appt before getting approval!  Can't think of much more to write right now, just wanted to leave my appt update!!  Thanks for all of your support! 

  Had a good appt today!  Lost 11lbs sense last appt!  Total of 32lbs!  3 more Nut. Appt's left!  She left me a little complexed!  She told me for me it would be really hard to remain @ 150lbs if I make it there!   I mean if I keep using all the things she taught me and excersize, I don't think I should have a problem w/ it!!   Whatever I will just have to show her I have no problem with that!  Once I hit 215, me and my husband are going to do the P90X!!

       I have been walking w/ my dogs!  I am planning on joining a gym, but I need my family DR to sign off on excersizing there and my Nut. will send it to the gym so I can get a discount!   I am excited to start at the gym, I have a fellow co- worker that had the surgery done in April that goes to the gym and he said he likes it because it is mostly older people that go there!  

Working on watching Ingredients!  No Sugar in the first four ingredients & no Fat in the first three ingredients!   Food Journal!
Work on program to quit smoking!   Keep self busy to keep from grazing!  Walking 5 days a week!    & LOVE myself!!  

 Well today is May 23, I guess only 13 days sense my NUT appointment!  Seems longer than that because my next NUT appt is on 6-14 ... Makes is seem so close! lol!!  But I just weighed myself @ home and I have only lost 3 lbs sense then! 306-303!! I really want to loose double digits again between appts!!     In a way I guess I need to remember it has only been 13 days, I didn't realize that until I started typing! lol!!  I guess at least I'm doing a sliding scale, slowly but surly!! 

I have been walking and still been mindful of everything I eating!!  Do not drink any sugary drinks but a Yoohoo once in a while! I really want to do this and get this weight off ...it just seems like I need to force my self to get on here and be inspired by all these strong women that have done this before me!  It does really work!

Work is going very well!  I am very happy I made the transition with a new client!!  I think it is beneficial to have this new client that is more high-functioning & get to do more things with him!!   Today we got permission to go to my parents house to play some pool!!  That was really nice!  So this summer we are going to be doing a whole lot of fun free things & he loves to walk with me!!  I have also noticed my walking stride is picking up and pulling up capri's while walking!

 Thank you all for sharing your stories with us!  

 I am so happy I have lost 21lbs sense my first visit to the Dr 3-14-11!  Between then and 4-7 I lost 4 lbs without trying & 17 of the 21 I lost in the last month!!  My husband also lost 16 lbs sense last visit too!!   I am very excited & keep thinking the more I loose pre-op the closer I can get to my goal weight!

A lot has been going on with my husband lately, so I am also having a good bit of stress!  I don't know how much I can trust him right now!!  I am not gonna let it jeopardize my progress tho! 

Having the sleep test they had to reschedule to this Friday night & I just can't wait to get it over with!! 
Went to my first support group last week & I like it a lot!  I think it will be very beneficial for me!  
NUT was very proud of me today & gave me more of the same stuff to work on & gave me a paper of what to expect with my diet post-op!  

I know this journey is gonna be hard & take time but it is sooooooo gonna be worth it in the end!!

I've been doing good sense my nutritionist appt until today!  I feel like I did wrong because of eating some fries and chicken ... maybe a bit over the normal portion!!  I want to be present with what I am eating, but how do you keep from obsessing! Tomorrow is another day!  Did you all just start cutting out one thing at a time or just started eating right all at once?  I know not drinking Pepsi should really help me a lot to loose the 12lbs of 16lbs I need too loose for surgery, but I also want to get use to eating the smaller portions as well! So then after surgery it won't feel so sudden!  If anyone can help I'd appreciate it!

I am so excited!!  She was so nice & very excited right along with me!  Cannot believe some of the portions she showed me.. lol but I am so ready!!  I have already stopped drinking Pepsi!  The first thing we did was weigh in & I actually lost 4lbs sense the last time I was in (about 3 weeks)!  Very happy about that!

Now I need to see how the hubby does ... he is already bitchin about a salad I wanted from a restaurant then says, if he can make it himself that would be fine!  Well heck that is even better, husband!!  Go buy stuff for us to make salads & some chicken & we will have our own Chicken Salad!   Sometimes, I just dunno! lol!!   So that is what I am having for dinner tonight!

I have a list of things to work on : Food Journal, slow down when eating, no sugar beverages, switch to 1% Milk, walk 30min a day/5x's a week,  & go to support group!    Thank goodness for the calendar on my cell phone!  I also have my sleep test coming up in 2 weeks!

Well I just want to let all of you know that reading & looking @ your photo's are so encouraging & inspiring!  Thank you all for sharing your journeys!

 So I look at the Number above of what I want to loose & I am over whelmed!  After the first nutritionist appt did you feel more confident in doing what needed to be done?  I just think of all the times I have tried before!  I do want a life style change and not just a diet!  I never want to be this weight again!  

I also was offered another opportunity at work & pay and title the same just totally different place!  I will be more active & that is why I decided to take it!  The lady I work with is pissed off because now she is actually gonna have to work!  She called me at home and said BITCH as soon as I answered!  My husband says I shouldn't let someone be so rude to me, I told him I am who I am & God will take care of her ...... I don't need to do anything but kill her with kindness!  So that is what I try to do!  

Anyways getting very excited for the 1st nutritionist appt!  Been waiting forever it seems like!! :)

Nice to have met some people on here going through the same adventure I'm about to take!  Even if I don't comment, I've been reading everything!   Bless you all! ;)

 This Thursday is my first visit to the Nutritionist!  I am excited!  I have my husband & sister going with me!  My sister says I have a rude awakening to what I am gonna be told to not eat!  I am so ready to make a change & have my mind up on listening to every word the nutritionist says!  My sister has never had the struggle I have, but she does also deal with watching what she eats! Over the past couple months she has lost a a good amount of weight & looks like she has NO WEIGHT problem at all now!  She just told me on the phone last night that she worries about me & that I'm unhealthy!  I said well thats nice you think about me!   

Anyways I was reading some about how peoples relationships change after WLS!    I love my husband & know he can loose weight right along with me!  I am not sure if he is ready though!  He loves to be lazy, watching tv, eating doughnuts, drinking Pepsi, I think he is the one that is going to have a rude awakening!  When we first went to the seminar seen the passion that he could want too & can do it without the jump start!  I just am not sure ... I also think actions speak louder than words!  So we will see if things change after my 1st nutritionist appointment!   It would be awesome to loose the weight together!  I want him to be healthy too!   We can do this!