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So I am a little over 8 months out now and could not feel better!!!  I have lost almost 150 Lbs and feel like I have a new life.  This is the best thing I ever did for myself.  I would tell anyone with a lot of weight not to waste there time on trying and trying to loss weight on there own because in most cases it does not work and just leads to upsetment and depression.  This is the way to get the weight off and so you can feel like a person again.  I still have weight that has to come off , but I know that it will.  I will reach my goal and even if I was not to, the weight that has already come off is more than I have ever lost and the way I feel right now is awesome.  I have painted my whole house and done so many things that would have NEVER been possible without the weight loss.  I am really loving life now and enjoying my kids so much.  Can not wait for this summer .  I have sooo.. many plans to have soo  much fun with my kids.  Thing I could have never done with them.  Riding a ride at a park is not going to be a problem any more!!  Going to the ocean and sitting on the sand and being able to get up from the sand on my own will not be a problem.  Going away and staying at a hotel and being able to sleep in the bed with no problem.  Getting on a airplane and not have to worry about the seats being big enough and not have to ask for a extender belt is going to be very nice.  I am looking forward to everything!!!  Even swimming!!!!!!  I thank God for this surgery.  I am so thankful for being able to have it because it SAVED MY LIFE!!!!! 

Okay a quick update since it has been a while.  I am almost 4 months now and have lost 66 Lbs.  I am now feeling GREAT!  I have tried many different foods ( all healthy) and have had no problem.  I really do mainly chicken but can do all meats.  I even have tried turkey Jerky whick is great as a snack and had no problems with it even though it can be every chewy.  I am very happy now that I had this surgery.  I could have never lost this much weight on my own!!!  I never have had lost this much weight before.  It is very exciting when I step on the scale and another pound or two is gone forever.  It feels so good.  I have much more energy and can do much more now.  I can go up and down the stairs many times doing laundry all day and not even get tired!!!  It is a great feeling.  All the hard times in the beginiing , it is all worth it and the hard times are slowly fading in my mind and I am forgeting them.  They never said it was going to be easy and it was not in the begining but, it is geting easier. 

Sorry it took so long for me to get back on here.  I did have my surgery and I am now 5 weeks out.  At 4 weeks I had lost 40lbs.  I have not been feeling very good.  I came through the surgery without any problems.  My surgery was only 1 1/2 hrs and with in hours I was up walking and I know that is what made my pain not so bad.  I walked and walked and walked.  Even in the middle of the night as the nurses would wake me up to take vidals I would know it was my time to get up and take a few laps.  This really helped and I was able to come home in 2 days and no pain meds.  I was sore but really not bad at all.  

Since 3 weeks out is when things started not to get bad.  I started with a lot of nausea.  Throwing up with a lot of things even water.  The nausea is what is the problem right now.  I heard it should go away within a few more weeks so, I am looking for the light at the end of this long tunnel.  I am having a hard time getting in enough liquids.  I hate the taste of anything sweet.  That limits me to not too much cause all diet stuff seems to be super sweet.  I started putting lemons in my water and this was helping me get much more in but than that is when the whole nausea thing started and my Doctor told me to say away from the lemons cause he thought that may have been why the nausea was there.  Then he suggested maybe it may be a ulcer so to stop all acidy things all together.  So here I am agian and not knowing what to drink cause plain water is sickening after a while.  

I am on the the puree stage right now and I seem to be okay with most things.  Ground hamburger seems to not work for me cause when I tried it I instantly throw up.  Chicken works the best for me right now so chicken salad is what I mainly live off of.  

I went back to work be 3 week out and that may have been a mistake.  I was only able to do half days that week.  It did get better but I am still not myself and gt very tired with in a few hours of working.  It has been getting a little better.    

I will post more later and hopefully it wii be better uplifting news next time.  

This has been the hardest thing and the surgery was the easiest part.  The hardest part is the aftermath of it all.  I know there is light at the end of the tunnel or, so that is what they let me anyway.  I will wait for the light.

God Bless everyone going through this,
Linda

Well, it si almost here and tomorrow I will be going in for what I have been waiting for , for so long.  I feel so nervous almost want to throw up from nerves.  I am also excited to start a  new life for me and my kids.  I took my kids to a small carnival that is set up in the town next to us for the 4th of July last night.  I had to have my husband go on all the rides with my kids cause no whey in the world I was fitting onto any of them.  Made me kinda mad that I have let myself get like this.  Made me even want this surgery even more.  Next year I will go o  those rides with my kids!!!!!  I just want to cry and smile all at once.  Filled with all kinds of emotions right now.  All I can do now is pray and believe that this will all go okay and I will be home with my kids soon and be on the way to felling better.  I will post more when I can.

Hi all, I am a 32  year old mom of two.  I have been overweight most of my life.  I have tried everything in the books as I am sure most of you out there have also.  I guess we choose this as a last straw.  I have been thinking about doing this for about 3 years now and have just been a big chicken and put it off and kept trying to do it on my own.  It did not work.  So, here I am , waiting for my surgery.  I am hoping that I will be having bypass surgery June 25th.  That is if everything goes weel with my insurance.  I have gone thought all the pre op stuff with all the other Docs.  In the inturn I have found that I have sleep apnea.  I am just so mad at myself for getting myself to this weight.  All these problems are creeping up and I just want to cry about it.  I hate sleeping with this darn mask my my face and really hate my husband seeing me with it!  He is a big health nut.  He is one of those people who love going to the gym and is at the gym all the time!  He is in great shape and then there I am, huge and wearing a ugly head gear mask to bed!  I am sure people see us and think,  WOW, why is he with her?  People are mean sometimes!  Anyway,  I know down under all that fat there is a pretty woman waiting to come out.   
Well, I will try to update from time to time.  Take care everyone!!