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Hey Everyone!! Well yesterday was my 4-month anniversary and as of yesterday I was down a total of 100.5 lbs!!! And I worked out yesterday and I weighed myself today and I was 241 lbs!!! So now I am 104 lbs down as of today!!! I am so excited!!! I fit into a size 18 JEANS!!!! I haven’t worn a size 18 since like the sixth grade and these are JEANS!!! My highest size that I reached at my highest weight was a size 26, so to go from that to a size…. In the “teens” I am more than excited!!!! Since I have lost so much weight, I have really gained more confidence in myself and I believe in myself more. That is THE BEST feeling one will EVER receive from this surgery, is confidence! That is something that I have learned most of all and the added confidence feels better than the weight lose….. almost!!! Let’s just say they are tied for first!! Anyway, I am such a dork and I forgot to take “after” pix last month, so I will be sure to remember this month and I will post them today!!!

Well, yesterday was my 3 month surgiversary!! I am so excited!! I weighed in at 257.5 lbs and I took my measurements and I have now lost a TOTAL of 41”. Now I was not so happy about the inches because that meant that I only lost 6.25 inches in one month. I really need to do better than that!! So that is my goal this month. I really haven’t been going to the gym because I started a new job last month, but I am going to make sure that I go to the gym at LEAST 3 times per week with a stretch of 5 times per week. I work in retail so the hours are really weird, and I don’t want to work out after working so I want to fit it in BEFORE work. Anyway…. My goal is to lose 15 lbs this month. We’ll see…. Okay…. Now about how I am feeling….. overall great….. I have FIGHTING, and I mean fighting a cold these past couple of days…. But this is the story… Three days ago, now, please don’t judge or get mad at me…. But I have been able tolerate sugars, now the maximum amount of sugar I am tolerate is still unknown, I really haven’t gone that far… Well, three days ago, my mom made rice crispy treats. My weakness…. So I had one and the squares were about 1.5” x 1.5” big… And then I had another one. So a total of 2 rice crispy treats!!! Um….. bad idea!! About 30 minutes later, my stomach was feeling really weird and my heart started to race, and I couldn’t make myself comfortable. I was so scared because this was at night and I needed to work in the morning so I was worried that I would be up ALL night being sick. So I gagged myself to speed the process up, and nothing happened, and I was still feeling this weird rumbling in my stomach, so finally I went to the toilet and threw up, the sucky thing was, was that it was just spit up!! And I was gagging like a cat!!! LOL! So I went to lay down and go to bed and I was still feeling weird, and I knew that if I changed positions in bed that I would get sick again….. Low and behold, I did…. So I threw up 2 times and NOW I will NEVER look at a rice crispy the same AGAIN!!!! Sorry to be so graphic, but I want to let all the pre-op’s and the people in my boat know that the road you are on, or undertaking can be unpredictable. You may think that you can handle sugar and get discouraged, like myself, but it can change…. Because, I ate a couple of peanut M&M’s today, and I have been able to handle those fine, and they made me nauseous…. So there you go…..! LOL! Even though I experienced that 3 days ago, I am still VERY grateful for this surgery that was a mistake on my part, the surgery is doing what it was intended to do. This is after all a “Tool”! Not a magic surgery….. Remember that….

Hey Everyone, Well, I am in the middle of a plateau, Stuck at 262-263 lbs. I am not gonna freak out though. I am going to measure myself on Monday, and I am going to continue my workouts again, Thanksgiving really put a hault to that!! And I need to focus on better eating, I am not going to use the excuse of the holiday's!!! ....OR my period!! Which is due any day!! TMI.... lol! Well, that's is my plan and I'm sticking to it, I have been using fitday, but not lately, because I have been eating so horribly! Anyway, hope all of ya are doing well!! Love Ash!

OMG!! I am so excited!! I have lost 15pounds in one month [from today]!! I am using Fitday.com And I am doing really well with it! I am keeping track of my eatting and everything much better than last time. I have lost like 5 pounds in 3 days!! I have been exercising and putting in more protein that is why!!! OMG!! I am so excited!! I am getting addicted to working out!!! I want to thank you all for your support!! You're awesome!!! Love ya'll!!

~Ash

Hey Everyone!
Well, update..... lets see.......
I am down to 267, 270 on a bad day. I think I am slowing down alittle, or reaching a plateaus. So to not let it hit me so hard, I am doing SOOOOOO much better with my eatting. Yesterday I was able to get in 61 grams of protein!!! I am using FitDay.com much better now and I am loving it!! I am putting in all of my exercising and such! I reached 1000 calories yesterday as well, I kinda splurged on some nutter Butter's!! Opps!! I am tolerate things like that, so i need to be carefule!1 I am just SOO happy that I am making more of an effort to get my protein in. My hair is already starting to fall out and I don't like that!! I am going to the gym, and I am doing ab exercises now, which I wasn't before because I wanted the DOC to tell me that it was alright. I am doing well with my vitamins and okay with my water intake. 
So this journey is JUST getting started for me! I am finally taking it seriously!! So I am hopping the weight will come off alittle faster. 2-3 pounds a week is what I am going for!! I can't wait til I reach 240 lbs!!! That is like 27 more pounds away!! I am so excited!! 
Here is a pic of Janel (my angel!) and I in my "photo" section. I went to Fremont for my 6 week appointment, that was 1 month postponed!! LOL!!

Hey Everyone, Well, it is a couple days after Halloween and I did fine, mostly cause I was in the hospital ALL day waiting for a friend during surgery. Well, what has happened, um.... I am feeling great, I happed to eat a piece of candy and it made me alittle nausus, so I will not be doing that again!! My goals for the next 2 months is to focus on going to the gym and getting in at least 60 grams of protein a day, I have been HORRIBLE at taking my protein. I am probably getting in like 15-30 grams a day!! Bad I know, that is why I am going to work on it!! I am down to 271 lbs, last I checked!! Whoohooo! I am almost in the 260's!!! My goal is to lose 25 lbs by the end of December, I think that's do-able! Anyway, I hope all is well with everyone!! My birthday is coming up, on November 28th!! Woohoooo! I don't have ANY clue what I am going to do though!! Let me in on some ideas if you have any!!

August 28, 2005
First consultation with PCP, he referred me to a sleep apnea consult and to the B-City Surgery Information group.
October 28, 2005
Scheduled day of B-City Surgery Information in Sacramento, CA 
October 31, 2005
Scheduled and appointment with PCP about a Sciatica pain in my leg. wanted to get that on record.
November 7, 2005
Scheduled another appointment to get my dietary evaluation and Phyc evaluation, also getting referred again for sleep apnea. December 14, 2005 - - - RESCHEDULED to November 15 @ 11AM! A whole month earlier!!!
Sleep Study, can't send my paperwork off to San Francisco without it! I will call in to see if there are any cancellations!November 15, 2005 
Rescheduled Sleep Study. 
December 7, 2005
My PCP sent in my referral to get approved for surgery!!!!!! Yea!
Dated, December 13, 2005, but received it December 19
 I AM APPROVED!!!!!!!!!!!
January 21, 2006
Orientation! I can finally lose the weight I have gained in the past 3 months! FEW!!!!!!

 

 

 

March 17, 2006 
@ 3:00PM is my Bariatric Consultation!!! Yea!!!!  I need to be within 10 pounds of my goal weight (10%) so they can schedule me a phyc evaluation!!!! And then after the phyc eval, I will get my surgery!!!!

 

 

 

April 6, 2006 
@ 1:00 PM in Union City is my physc evaluation!!! WoooHooo!! Hopefully by my physc eval I will be 5 pounds away from goal!!

 

 

 

April 20, 2006
Called Kaiser Fremont with my "5 pounds to goal" call!! So I don't know when they will call me with a date, but I am going to stay focused and loss the last 5 pounds!!!
April 27, 2006
Appointment with my PCP to get thyroid medication to get my thyroid in normal range. I hope I can schedule a lab test that same day so that way I won't have any more delays that I need!!
May 11, 2006
Called in a second time for a date. They can't give me a date til they see my thyroid test results to make sure they are normal. So the waiting begins...again! lol
May 15, 2006
Michelle called me from Kaiser fremont, telling me that Dr. Chu recieved my file. Hopefully the next call I will recieve is a call from Nancy with a date. I am going to include a ticker to see how long this is going to take!!
June 6, 2006
Biopsy of my thyroid, will find out by Friday at the eariest if it is cancer. Keep your fingers crossed!!
June 14, 2006
Today I called Kaiser again, after my thyroid biopsy. Now that my thyroid is cleared, I can get back in the race!!

June 28, 2006
I called kaiser again with an udate on my weight.

August 8, 2006
Well, today was D-Day. I went to Kaiser today to get my "official" weigh-in, and....drum roll..... I was 307 lbs!!!!! 1 pound away from my goal!!!! wooohoooo! Now I am going to put a ticker for how long it takes them to call me from today with a DATE!!!

 

 

 

August 14, 2006
Nancy called me today with a surgery date!! September 12, 2006!! Wooohoooo!!

~October 12, 2006

Well, I can't even remember a time when I was 282 lbs!!!! I think I was a freshman / sophmore in HS!! I am so happy!!! My BIG point will be once I hit 240 lbs! I remember the DAY I hit the 240 lbs. mark, I was in the 7th grade, I remeber seeing that number on the scale as if it were yesterday!! I cried so much! So once I hit the 240 lbs mark, I am gonna celebrate!! Only 42 more pounds to go for that celebration!

Now, let me make some goals! I kinda used my first month out to relax and take it easy. Even though my recovery was awesome!! I am going to really start getting serious! Starting today, I am going to go to the gym, 5 days a week, and I created this eating journal and I am going to keep track of my eating with that. I need to be eating more protein so I am going to make it a goal of mine to lose 10 pounds a month!! That is my minimum goal, if I lose more than that, sure! LOL! So my next goal is to be 272 lbs by November 12!

Hello everyone! Well I am almost 1 month out (in 2 days I will post 1 month pics) I am down to 283 which is 17 pounds in 1 month. I am hoping to lose 3 pounds in the next 2 days to make it an even 20 pounds! I am excited! I am able to different foods, but getting me to est them is a whole different story. I just wanna eat the same thing every time, but I am starting to get tired of cheese and chrackers, and I think that is why my weight lose is slower than others, I am going to start eatting more protein, and I am going to start walking every day. I am very happy that I had this surgery, no complications, and I just feel great! I'll post in 2 days, my 1 month out pictures! I really think that i have lost more inches than anything!!!

~September 8, 2006

Oh my goodness, it has been almost a month since I have last posted!! I have been sooooooo busy these past few weeks. Well, today is the semi-big day! lol Today is my Pre-Op appointment!! I weighed myself this morning, and according to my scale, I am 303 lbs!!!! 3 pounds under my surgery goal!! I am just praying to the all mighty that the scales in Fremont are not going to be to different from mine. But anyway, man, my surgery is Tuesday!!! I kinda seems soooooo far away, but I am so happy. I thought I would NEVER get to this point! I thank all of you for your wonderful support and prayers! My next post will be most likly before my surgery and then from then on, I will be posting as a "Post-Op"!! Wooohooooo!

~September 10, 2006

Hey everyone! Well I got back home last night from my weekend in San Jose . Friday was my pre-op appointment and that went very well. They were alittle behind, so they had me go and get my EKG, and my Lab work done before I met with Dr. Chu. So after I got all of that done, my mom and I waited and we finally met with Dr. Chu after about 30 minutes or so. But that was fine, as long as I get the same amount of time with my Surgeron as everyone else. So we met with her and she told me that she didn't expect to see me so soon! And I was like, um.... so soon! lol. Not so soon for me! Anyway, she just went over some paperwork, and put my on antibiotics for my cycts around my belly button, becuase she doesn't want there to be any bacteria around the insisions. So today I have been putting hydrogen peroxcide, and anti bacterial ointment on my cycts along with the meds, so I am hoping they will be cleared by Tuesday. So anyway, it went very well, Dr. Chu is pregnant!! I forget how far along, I think she said 46 weeks, she is really showing! She is so adorable!! Anyway, I am going to stick to my protein drinks today and go and get a cute pajama set and some comfortable pants and top to wear home! So I think my last post (pre-op) will be tomorrow, we are just gonna say up here in Placerville, and drive down to Fremont Tuesday morning. That way I can sleep in my own bed and be comfortable! So wish me luck!! Love ya'll!

Here are some pictures from my "Last Supper"

Me, my friend, Becca and my beautiful sister
My dad, Me and my mom
my mom and I
my Angel, Janel and I

 

my friends at my last supper

 

~September 11, 2006

Well, tomorrow is the BIG day! I am very excited! I am not exactly nervous yet, I am just PRAYING that my mom doesn't cry tomorrow!!! But I am sure that she will! Anyway, I am doing the whole bowl cleansing thing right now, so I am gonna make this short, but I wanna thank, ALL of you for your support! See you on the losers bench!! {{{kisses}}

 

~Friday, September 15, 2006

Hello Everyone!!

Well I am home from surgery, well I got home yesterday. Surgery went very well! If you would like, I can account that day...

My original appointment to be at the hospital was at 11am, but they called me Sept. 11th and told me that the person before me was being rescheduled and i was being moved to 9am. So we still stayed up here in Placerville, becuase we would only need to leave Placerville at 6am to get to Fremont . Well we get there, I have to fill out a form, pay my co-pay of $200 and get my wrist band. So we go upstairs to where they will be doing the surgery, and we wait in the waiting room, what seemed like forever! And they called me to a dressing room to get undressed, and put on 2 gowns, I ended up taking my nose ring out!! :( but oh well, when I think about it now, it would have been a pain!

So once I got into my gown, they brought my mom back and they took me to a makeshift room and had me sit in a recliner chair. She asked me all sorts of questions, alot I don't remeber! And then another nurse came and gave me my I.V. then I got a blood thinner shot as well.

So I waited, and waited, and waited and waited. Until about 12 or so the head nurse in the surgery room told me that there was some confusion on their part and that the lady before me had actually gone in for her surgery, so I would need to wait until around 2pm. Well, I was a little bummed, but what are ya gonna do??!! So I just sat there and finally the rest of my family came in, the nurses called them my pose! It was pretty funny cause I had so many people there. But anyway we waited and talked and then the anathesiologist assistant came in and asked me some questions then I asked to go to the bathroom, and finally the head anathesiologist, my surgeon, and the head nurse came in (well at different times) to see how I was doing, ask me some more questions and so on. And I started to shake by this point, I was getting so nervous, and then the nurse came in to take me to the surgery room, I got up and when i hugged my mom, I started to cry really bad, I hugged my sister, my brother-in-law, my neice and my friends I was crying oh man! lol. So I was walking down the hall and it was so funny because ALL of my family had to stop at a certain point and there were sooooo many of them, taking pictures and video, the staff was laughing.

So I get into the surgery room, and I was surprised to see that it was ALL women, so I said that and they said that's right baby! They have me take of the second robe, and I get on the table, which was lined with blankets and I layed my head down and oh man, I was like, I need another pillow. So they gave me a pillow for my head and to put under my knees. The anathesiologist said, "yeah you look really nervous! I'm gonna give you something right now that is gonna make you feel like you just had a couple of beers..." I was like alright, fine with me!! LOL. So she gave me that, and I don't really remember anything else after that, I think she gave me a tripple dose becuase she saw how nervous I was!

So I wake up in recovery and I am telling you, my back and my neck hurt SOOOO sticken bad!! I was surprised by how much they hurt! All I kept saying was, "my back, my neck" and my voice was so raspy, and I think that I was in and out of sleep, not sure, my brain was so cloudy! All I remeber was being in so mcuh pain, not my stomach, but everything else, and I asked for my mom!! So she came in and I was telling her how much my back hurt!! LOL! So I get to my room and I am there for 2 days. Nothing much happened after that, it was very hard to eat ANYTHING, especially hospital food. So I didn't eat much of anything. But that is about it, I will try and update regularly what's been going on! Talk to ya later!        

Here are some pics of me and my family is the hosptial:

My family and I right before I go to surgery!!
VERY nervous right as I am going to surgery!
Crying and walking to surgery!
In the Recovery room
The day I am leaving to go home

 

 

~September 17, 2006 - 5 days post-op

Hey everyone, well, I am 5 days post op and I had gone from 300 lbs to 296lbs. So I've lost a total of 4 pounds. I am reading other profiles and they seem to be losing faster, but you know what I am not going to compare myself to anyone else, So i am thankful for what I have lost! I have been able to keep everything down. I am a little dizzy in the morning, I have to wait to eat about 30 minutes becuase I take a thyroid med in the morning. But my insisions are healing very well, and I am working on getting in more protein. I don't eat very much, but what I am gonna work on, Iam making a chart to go by that way I am taking my vitamins, food, protein, water and exercise on a timed schedule. So I am gonna get better at that. Anyway, doing great, my stomach is becoming less sore as each day passes, I was able to get out of bed better today! woohooo! So I am happy! I just thank and pray to God EVERYDAY for this wonderful proceedure.

~September 21, 2006

Hey Everyone,

Well it has been a week and 2 days and i have lost 11 pounds since surgery. I was getting a little discouraged and I told my mom this and she was like, "Ashley, how much weigt did you lose the week before surgery?" And I ad lost a good 6 pounds, so really in total, in 2 weeks, I have lost 17 pounds. So I am happy about that, and I think that since I lost that weight, my body is in working mode. I am basically losing 1 pound a day or so, so I can't complain. I am very thankful for this surgery, I am already getting head hunger! Oh well, I know that will pass as well