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So after a year and a half after my second child I decided it was time to loose the weight again.  One problem!  I don't want to work so hard at loosing the weight and something as simple as having a baby make me gain it all back.  So...I decided to have the VSG!  I had always been against the bypass simply because I was worried about having malnutrition problems.  My doctor at one time was actually suggesting this surgery to me when I decided I was going to loose the weight myself.  That's when I lost the 156 lbs.  I also didn't want the band because I didn't want a port, even if it is underneath the skin and you can't see it.  Just kind of creeps me out lol!  To each their own though...everyone makes their own choices for their own reason and one isn't wrong just because it wasn't the choice for me.  So VSG is what I decided I wanted to do.  It helped that my next door neighbor, highschool and long time family friend was getting ready to have the same thing done.  She was able to have hers done in January.  I went to the first info session in January.  Met my doctor for the first time on March 25th.  He then told me that he wanted me to come back in one month, but before he would do surgery he wanted me to loose atleast 25 lbs.  Remember I had already done this once, so I knew what was required of me.  I started walking, started the high protein, low carb intake.  By the time I went back to see him on April 28th I had lost over 30lbs!  Oh yeah lol!  He told me he was very impressed with my progress (smiles inside lol because I was too) and that we could do the surgery.  I was scheduled a couple weeks later on May 17th for surgery.  By the time I went in for surgery I had lost a total of 43lbs.  I was extremely happy with that and couldn't wait to have the surgery done.  Surgery went well.  Some sorness after surgery, but when isn't there usually?  I had surgery on a Tuesday and went home on Thursday.  Things weren't looking good.  I was having a hard time drinking my liquids.  They asked me Thursday if I thought I could do it on my own.  I fibbed and said yes (my 4 year old had pre-k graduation that day and I REALLY wanted to be there!).  Big mistake (Sorta as I was glad to be able to go to her graduation.).  The very next day I was back in the hospital for dehydration.  I was there from Friday to Sunday.  Finally got to go home.  I was doing better with my liquids.  Not as well as I should have been, but much, much better.  I went back to work the following Thursday.  I worked the rest of that week and all of the next week, but ended up back in the hopital over night that Friday.  Again for dehydration, plus I had started walking about 5 miles a day and wasn't getting all my liquids in!  Finally that day Friday my restriction I was feeling when I was drinking started lightening up so I was able to start getting my liquids in like I am supposed to be doing!  I haven't had to worry about dehydration since.  And I hate HATE being in the hospital with IV liquids being pumped into me!  For every 1 bag of liquid they pump into you, you WILL gain 2 lbs.  Before I left the hospital the first time for dehydration I gained 12lbs!  I was really upset.  Within the first 3 days of being home I took that off!  Imagine if I hadn't gained it!  12 lbs in 3 days would have REALLY been nice lol!  The second time I was in I gained 8.  Since I've been out of the hospital I've lost 6 of those lbs!  It's been 1 full month today and I've lost a total since surgery 20lbs and a total of before and after is 67lbs.  They told me that I should start loosing 1 to 2 lbs a week and atleast 10 lbs before I come back in to see them in two months.  That's just not good enough for me, but they told me 10 lbs is the minimum, if I can do more than that, that is fine!  Good thing because it will definitely be more than that!  So here I am...thinking about all the little goals that I want to accomplish and thanking God for all that he's let come to pass!  This isn't an answer to my weight problem, but with this tool, I can and WILL use it to my advantage to keep the weight off for good.  Pregnancy or not!  P.S.  That will be a big NOT!  LOL!  On a more serious note, if you are thinking about doing this...this is probably the best thing I've ever done for myself.  There is help out there and people willing to help.  I know sometimes the whole process seems like it takes forever, but it can and will happen.  Good luck to anyone else who plans on having this done...or any of the other surgeries.  Good luck to those of us who have had it done, let's work our asses off...LITERALLY!  :)  Hope everyone has a great day!  It's one step closer to where we wanna be!

Well once I got into a relationship I stopped doing my walking, wasn't watching what I was eating and had already stopped taking the herbalife because I wanted to maintain without help.  At first I put on 50lbs.  When I realized I had put on that much weight I started walking again and watching what I was eating.  I was on the right track.  I lost 16lbs....then I found out I was pregnant!  I was devastated.  Don't get me wrong I love my daughter, no doubt about it and wouldn't trade her for anything, but talk about bad timing!  I did not want to be pregnant I was afraid of putting on the weight.  And boy did I!  It didn't help that my boyfriend was afraid that walking could somehow hurt the baby (um...duh, the doctor said I could walk).  We had a previous miscarriage so he was afraid of we might have another one.  Can we say over protective? Many times he would eat late at night, but if I said I wasn't hungry then he wasn't going to eat and it would make me feel bad so I would eat anyway.  I gained 70lbs during my pregnancy.  After a year and a half I decided it was time to loose the weight again.  This time my doctor prescribed me phentermine because I couldn't afford herbalife anymore.  I had a family to take care of...and those pills could get expensive!  After 3 months of the phentermine, walking and watching what I ate again, I lost 50lbs!  Guess what!  I was pregnant AGAIN!  Guess what!  I was devastated AGAIN!  You know what?  I love my second daughter and wouldn't trade her for the world either, but do you think that kept me from being mad because I knew the chances of gaining the weight again were more than likely?  Nope, I was p.o'd!  Did I gain?  You bet your bottom I did!  90lbs this time!  First month I took off about 20 lbs, but then I put ALL of my weight back on...324 lbs I am looking at on the scale, then I gain 40 more!  For the first time in my life I'm at a new heavy weight!  364lbs!  It took me a year and a half, but guess what I decided? I am loosing this weight again and this time I am going to make sure I can keep it off!

I have been over weight for as long as I can remember.  When I graduated highschool I weighed in at 324lbs.  I'm tall and the weight seems to be evenly proportioned, but at the same time there isn't any way you couldn't tell I was a big girl!  I never really cared what others thought about me.  I never dated when I was in school.  Even after school I didn't date.  I worked for about a year, then when my sister graduated we both started a community college together.  After two years of that and still being overweight I decided I was tired of school and got a job.  Every day was a fight because I was tired all the time!  I would be sitting at my desk in Medical Records (I worked at our local hospital...still do) and would fight to stay awake.  I also worked with my mom and my aunt.  At the time they were taking and herbal diet product called Herbalife.  That pill curved your appeitite, made you feel full and gave you energy.  One day I was complaining to my mom that I was tired and she said "Here why don't you try one of these and see if it gives you energy."  I took that little magic pill (as I liked to call it) and not even 15 minutes later I was rearing and ready to go.  That day on break I decided to go walking and I also decided I was buying some of those pills.  Plus it was supposed to help you loose weight...how could I loose?  And loose I did.  The first week I was taking the pills I lost 10 lbs.  I wasn't trying to loose I just didn't like being tired all the time, but once I realized I was loosing it was go time!  I started walking on all my breaks and bought the whole kit that came with the main pill.  I realized quickly, the more I walked, the more I lost.  I also realized the more protein and less carbs I took in, the more I lost.  I started walking anywhere from 8 to 10 miles sometimes more a day.  It took me about a year and a half, but I lost atleast 156lbs, I actually got down at one time to 169lbs.  I went from a size 26 to a size 13.  I didn't have boarderline hypertension anymore.  My feet didn't hurt when I walked.  I didn't have fluttering in my chest.  I could actually JOG, but I still prefered my walking.  I still remember once going to the store after spending the night with a friend and deciding to get a cheep shirt on sale because I hadn't planned on spending the night so I didn't bring any clothes with me.  I ended up in the little boys section and bought a tank that actually FIT for 2 dollars.  And I don't mean little as in the mens isles I mean the kids clothes, little boys where you go after you stop buying in the toddlers section.  Maybe it was one of the biggest sizes, but it was still in the little kids section!  Boy did that feel good! :)  I loved being thin and healthy.  It was great....then....I got into a realationship.