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Weigh in is in one week!! Hoping that I have managed some weight loss!!

I believe we are at a place now that the cycle will finally be broken.  At my highest weight where doctors thought I should lose 100 pounds before surgery I was ready to give up.  But knowing that I needed to choose life for me, for my path with God, and for my children I decided to give it my all for 30 days.  In that time the staff was also holding a team medical meeting to discuss my case.  I didn't know the results until a recent visit with the nutritionist...they decided to cut the weight I had to lose in half, so my goal was 50 pounds.  WELL>>>>> in the 30 days I had lost 11 pounds so I am now 39 pounds away from surgery!!

 

Happy and freaked out.  Praying God leads me onward. :)

So, I feel like a broken record...I am back in the weight center AGAIN.  I have not yet had surgery.  The pattern seems to be that I do well, join the weight center and then start to gain weight with the stress of the weigh ins and then quit because I do better on my own.  Its crazy.

I am at a new all time highest weight but I am hoping to finally have the surgery this time.  I want to go with the sleeve and work the heck out of the program!!!

O.K. so I am back in the bariatric program.  I was in last year...or a year ago which might have technically been in 2011...but I was having a lot of difficulty with my nutritionist not understanding the effort I was making.  I was down 30 lbs and I was very excited about that.  Under her guidance I did nothing but stress eat and GAIN.  Each time she became MORE frustrated with me and at the last visit I actually started having a panic attack and could not stop crying.  I didn't go back.

Good news..she is no longer there! YAY!! So, I had my first weigh-in last week and I was 20 pounds lighter than my last weight they had..PLUS...I was 3lbs lighter than the lightest weight they EVER had for me too.. so all good news. 

Now, I am trying to lose 76 pounds before surgery in an effort to see if my doctors, and insurance company will consider the sleeve.  I am so afraid of any surgery but the VSG sounds like a good fit, and Im hoping the insurance company will realize that its not "experimental!"

Hope all my friends are doing well..although Im sure most of the people I had been talking to have lives and have moved off of the computer now that they can be so active! I know I would!

Here is to a great 2013 for all of us trying to lose and improve!!!

Trying to push past this 30lb mark.  Eating has been difficult due to finances but we just filled the freezer so I am trying to plan better for the week ahead!!  NO MORE EXCUSES for not doing well!!  Exercise should be better because it is now my responsibility to drive the kids to and from school even though I havent really driven for two years.  It makes me a little nervous...but I am glad I am getting back out there.

I finally have a pain med from a new doctor...so that is making it a bit easier to get around.  Now I am only on the heating pad occasionally instead of daily...and all day!! :)

Hope to have surgery late spring or early summer next year.  Also hoping that we get the exercise equipment way before then so that I can keep in the best shape possible.

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I will update soon when I have new news. :)

Happy Saturday!!

Went to my intro meeting and I am officially on my way!!! :)  I weighed in the day of the meeting so I could write down an accurate weight.  I am down 30ish pounds from my heighest approximate weight three months ago!! :)  I feel great and I just want to keep losing like crazy!! :)

I cant wait to go to the fitness store sometime next week to hopefully figure out how to bring home an elliptimill!!! :)

Hope everyone is doing well on their journey!! :)

Happy Saturday! :)

Well, tomorrow is my intro meeting and then on the 19th I see my NUT so hopefully they will count that as my first nutritional appointment.

I think I will bring my own scale from home just in case they need to weigh me because I doubt they have one and I am so NOT going to get wheeled down to the damn laundry scale every time when I own my own 550 talking scale (with the option to turn of the talking feature, lol).

I am also looking into getting the landice elliptimill...going to try it next week and I am hoping to finance the dang thing but I need to find some type of exercise I like and something that will be cardio and work with a lot of different muscle groups since I dont think I have much muscle tissue.

I hope this goes well and i can loose the weight needed to get to surgery while we are fully covered by insurance!!

I am starting the process again.  I have a primary care, a physical therapist and tons of doctors appointments in-between.  I need to lose a lot of weight before I would feel safe having surgery but I am down 20lbs so far, so hopefully I can keep it up!! :)

This time around I am not putting any time constraints on myself and I am not weighing in constantly...only once per month.  Looking forward to results and hoping that physical therapy puts me in the pool!!! I would love it! :)

Cross your fingers for me!! :)

May 2011

I am still here and working on my health issues.  I have not had surgery as of yet as we have lost insurance.  I had two surgeries, not sure if I posted about this, in 08 ended up diagnosed with thyroid cancer.  I had radiation in 09 and my surgery would have followed most likely by March because they (the team) were going to clear me I was told.  But my husband got laid off and we lost all insurance, still none!!

I feel pretty good but am now mostly immobile, working on getting mobility back after gaining more weight due to severe hypothyroid and hypoglycemia and then injuring my back.

Im not sure if the cancer is gone but I feel much better and my hair isnt falling out as much so there is a lot to be thankful for!! :)

I am in college now and working towards my associates degree in psychology, with that I would like to open my own business. I am hoping to loose enough weight to be functional and maybe have the sugery in the next year or so. :)

I hope all of my friends on here are doing well!!! I am so out of the loop!

Its hard to be patient!! I had this whole thing planned out which probably just makes God smirk, thinking that I have control of anything, HELLO... you think CANCER would have taught me that mistake.

So here I thought I would have my two surgeries and then heal and have my WLS, but we lost insurance when my husband got laid off. Now he is off again, on again with this company..fine.. its good money, but im not going to have surgery and then NOT have the insurance for the follow up visits, I did that with the whole cancer shtick, ya know... a LITTLE freakin scary!!

So... the bad news is here to.. or rather the reality of my present situation, it is what it is. I being hypoglycemic for 5 months and hypothyroid packed on MORE weight. Highest recorded weight?? 486.lbs. Scary!! Now I have this number in my head that just wont quit and I DO NOT want to be on any table until I am under 400 lbs, so I have some work cut out for me. So far in the past 6 weeks I have shaved off 15lbs. Not too bad, but certainly not like with surgery.

A little jealous I guess I have a friend going for surgery at the end of this month, I wish I was there with her so the healing could begin.

But this is my path for now. Had to vent a little. Hopefully I will be more faithful coming here again and getting myself jazzed to get back on track with all of this instead of pretending I was never on the road to wls!!

Later.........