onyxboo
30 lbs to goal
May 20, 2015
Well, I'm getting closer to my goal. 9 months in and I have lost 106 lbs. Only 30 lbs to my goal. It hasn't been easy, but its definitely been worth it. I think the last time I weighed 177 was in middle school. So weird to look at myself now. I don't even recognize myself anymore. Wish me luck and good luck to all of you as well!
Onederland
Feb 09, 2015
I finally hit onederland. About 5 and a half months to lose 87 lbs. 49 more to go. Whoohoo!
1/2 way mark
Dec 09, 2014
Finally hit my half way mark. Down 68 lbs in 3 1/2 months and 68 more to go. 16 lbs til onederland.
Down 50 lbs
Oct 31, 2014
So today I weighed myself and I am down 50lbs. 2 months and 9 days out of surgery, not bad. This is the hardest thing I have ever done, but completely worth it. I am thankful that I still have no cravings and no appetite. I hope both stay away forever. ;)
Below 250lbs
Oct 04, 2014
Finally made it to below 250. Haven't seen this number since high school. Whoohoo!
Nauseated
Sep 04, 2014
13 days post op and for the last few days I have been so nauseated and lots of gas pains. I cut out everything that could be causing this but it's still there. I'm getting very frustrated. Tried getting a hold of my surgeons office and still no response. Even drinking water causes me to burp a lot and I think I'm drinking pretty slowly. Ahhhhh!! I know this too shall pass. Just very uncomfortable and want it gone NOW!
Day 9 post op
Aug 31, 2014
So today was day 9 post op. So far not so bad. I have no appetite and have to remind myself to eat 3 times a day. Finally got up to 50 ounces of water today. I feel like I drank water all day long. Not sure how I'm going to get up to 64. Have a terrible rash on my stomach from an allergic reaction to the sterri strips. I'm not sure I have ever had an itch this bad before ugh! Oh well, what are you going to do. As of today I am down 19 lbs so that's what keeps me going.
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Hmmmmm, where to start.
Aug 18, 2014
I'm sure I have the typical overweight story. I have been overweight my entire life. A ten pound baby (sorry mom) with 2 chins already mind you , to an overweight child, and into a morbidly obese adult. I hate those two words, morbidly obese. Ugh!! Growing up I was fed whatever I wanted whenever I wanted it. And unfortunately as an adult that stuck with me. That's why I am now 282 pounds. Of course there are other reasons why I can't shed the weight but that's what I'll pay a shrink for Growing up I never thought of myself as particularly ugly, just "normal" looking. The heavier I got the more unhappy I got, and now have the lowest self esteem of probably anyone I have ever met. Oh the days when I would go out with friends and boyfriends and have a good time. Even being overweight, I still had quite a few boyfriends. Now, however, I am a hermit. Not completely of course, I do go to work. Besides that though, nothing. I go home and I stay home. I just moved back to my home state last year and can honestly say I have gone out once in the last 13 months. Of course I had no fun what-so-ever because I was too busy wondering at what everyone was probably thinking, why I even bothered to go to a bar. When in reality they probably weren't paying any attention to me at all. Hmmmm, not that that statement sounds any better to me Anyhow, I have tried every diet imaginable, lost some to only gain them back plus some more. I hit the point of no return when I got on the scale and it said 293 pounds. I thought "holy shit, I am 7 pounds away from being 300 pounds". This is not working for me anymore. So I started the process of WLS only to chicken out when my Dr told me that it doesn't work for everyone. And I have to be comfortable with the possibility of only losing 15 pounds. That invasive of a surgery to only lose 15 pounds, I don't think so. So I stopped the process. After moving home and getting a job did I decide to restart. A co-worker of mine was going through the process and I found out from her that our insurance will cover it, minus my co-pay of course. That was it for me, I'm off and running straight to the operating table. I at first thought about doing the sleeve, but after talking to a friend who had the RNY I changed my mind. Statistically speaking, I have a better chance of losing more weight with RNY than with the sleeve from everything I've read. So I'm going for it. My surgery is set for 3 days from now and I am excited and nervous as hell. I have failed at every diet I have ever done, and do not want to fail at this. I have changed my mindset to "this is not another diet, this is a lifestyle change". And let's face it, my lifestyle was pretty boring, very sad, and very emotional. So another lifestyle is what I need. I will start therapy after surgery to work through all my low self-esteem issues as well as the why's to why I kept myself heavy all these years. Peace out, and see you all on the losers bench. The one time I don't mind being called a loser.