New Hair Cut and Ears Pierced

Well Yesterday we had a family BBQ, it was me, my husband, my stepson, and my husbands parents.  We invited my brother in law and his fiancee too, but they couldn't make it cause they had a graduation or something to go to.  Well we had a nice time, There was lots of food, and i didn't feel deprived at all, i had just a little bit of everything, and then after we all went to see kung fu panda 2, luckily we were the first ones to see that movie so we got the best seats and then people starting filling the place up.  After the movie i got my ears re pierced because they had closed up on me, and then me and my husband both got haircuts, i got mine a little above my shoulders, its really cute. 
Today I went to the pool with my mother in law and my step son and we had a lot of fun, we all played races who could swim or walk across the pool to the other side the fastest, it was fun and definitely a good workout. 
Oh and i realized that i don't mind sharing with perfect strangers that i had the sleeve surgery, yesterday i told the lady that cut my hair i just lost more then 60 pounds so i needed a change, and i told her i had the sleeve surgery, and then today when i went to lunch with my mother in law and stepson the waitress asked if i didn't like my food cause i didn't eat very much, so i told her i had the sleeve surgery so I'm not able to eat very much.  I've read a lot of people don't really like sharing that information with strangers, but i don't mind, I'm perfectly fine telling people i had the sleeve, and i don't see why not, I'm proud i had it, I'm giving myself a second chance at life having the sleeve.  I'm a sleever and I'm proud. :)  And i hope all you fellow sleevers out there are just as proud of your sleeve as i am of mine. :)

This picture is what i served myself, knowing i wasn't going to be able to finish it of course, just wanted to try a little bit of everything.

This picture is what i wasn't able to finish eating, my husband finished it off for me since he was in the shower while we were eating this was his first plate of food.

These are strawberry canoli's i made for the BBQ got the recipe on theworldaccordingtoeggface blog.

This pic is of my new haircut.

5 Weeks Post op and other stuff

5 Weeks ago today I had My gastric Sleeve Surgery.  There have been some rough patches, I haven't lost the hunger at all, I"m like always hungry, and it sucks sooooo much.  Oh and I happen to be allergic to either my favorite protein powder (click) that I've found so far, or to the yummy Carmel (torani sugar free) syrup I add to it, not sure, and not sure when I'm going to test them separately to see if i have a reaction.  I tried this new Protein powder today called turbo chocolate platinum hydro whey, it actually tasted decent, but unfortunately gave me a really bad stomach ache and made me extremely nauseated, luckily i didn't drink very much before i got the stomach problems.  I have several samples of different protein powders and that was one of them, so luckily i don't have a big container of the stuff.  I'm keeping track of which ones i like, hate, or don't make me feel to good. 
Went to the gym yesterday and did water aerobics for about 45 minutes or so, was going to go again today but unfortunately when we got home last night we came home to a hot house, our ac was busted so today we had to wait around at home all day for the ac people to come look at it and ended up having to spend about a little under 300 on it, which uggggg we don't have right now, well we luckily did only because i hadn't paid mortgage yet, but I'll be able to pay that on Thursday, but that 300 dollars was suppose to go to get a new lawnmower Thursday, our 1 and a half acres is growing like crazy, haven't had a lawnmower in a long time, but hopefully we'll still be able to get one soon... but any extra money we had we were going to put towards our minivan cause that eats away all our  money, at 700 a month, so we got it down some, and we should hopefully have it paid off this year if nothing else breaks, so yea the extra money we were going to be putting on the van went to the ac being fixed and to the lawnmower, so that sucks. 
Oh and also you'd think being 60 pounds lighter would give me more energy, but no, my back kills me when i do anything, just doing dishes, or sitting, or standing or cooking, uggg, my lower back just hurts, and my left hip, and my left leg, and my legs feel wobbly or something when i walk, its weird, maybe my thyroid levels are off again i know that causes me all kinds of pains and problems, but luckily today i went in for blood tests for my thyroid so I'll hear back from my doctor soon. 

Size 28 Blue Jeans and cancer sucks

Well damn it to all hell.......my blog from yesterday got deleted this sucks.....it was titled size 28 blue jeans and cancer sucks, and i'm not gonna remember everything i wrote so i'm upset about this.

Well yesterday I tried on some Size 28 blue jeans, I had tried them on saturday too, but they didn't fit yet, still needed a couple inches, well i hadn't lost any pounds since saturday but i decided to try the pants on anyways, and yay they fit...so i still lost some inches even though no pounds....finally today i lost a pound though so i'm happy, my body was probably just adjusting to eating solids. 

The other thing that i wrote about was well cancer, my great aunt who went into surgery to remove her cancer about the same time i had my sleeve surgery just found out she has 3 different types of cancers, and one of them is apparantly hereditary and rare, so the entire family needs to be tested for this cancer ugggg, I had so much more written and i don't remember any of it, this really does suck...had pics too.... :(

May 1, 2011 Month 5 of my Journey

May 1, 2011

Weight:  315

Measurements

Waist: 66 ¾

Hips: 63

Breasts: 53 ½

 Ankle: 10 ½

 Wrist: 8

Thigh: 31

Neck: 17

Upper Arms: 21

Clothing Sizes

(note) swimming in the 5X’s 

Dress: 4X-5X 32-24

Pant: 3X-4X 30-34

Skirt: 3X-4X 30-34

Shirt: 4X-5X 32-34

Ok i think my hubby is not taking accurate measurements, cause my waist measurement went up from jan.....ya i don't think so......oh well he tried...lol, i'm just gonna leave it cause no way to tell where exactly he was putting the measureing tape each month, so i'll just continue and just remember it's the best he could do :) I love him.....he's my booger butt :)  He's over here next to me right now eating something yummy a frozen icecream treat....at least it has pecans in it, so its not tempting to me at all not into pecans in my icecream so i told him it was ok for him to eat it in here with me..... 

Oh and i'm currently swimming in my 5X tshirts, and some of my pants are pretty big on me too.....its soooo cool, going to start going through my tubs of clothes i had when i was under 300...i'll have enough to last probably just till i get to 250 and then oh boy the shopping starts.....my favorite part :) 

April 18, 2011 Day before Surgery

Day before surgery measurements, April 18, 2011

Weight:  337.8

Measurements

Waist: 58 1/2

Hips: 65 1/4

Breasts: 56

Ankle: 11 1/2

Wrist:  8

Thigh:  32 1/4

Neck:  18 1/2

Upper Arms:  22

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 4X-5X 32-34

Pant: 3X-4X 30-34

Skirt: 3X-4X 30-34

Shirt: 4X-5X 32-34

These are from April 18, 2011 the day before my surgery.  The next two weeks were ugggg....the first week wasn't to bad, i was in pain but it wasn't as bad as i was worried it was going to be....the second week uck the constipation kicked in and that was a bitch, worst pain ever, even worse then the dang surgery pain, it was no fun at all, not even gonna go into details as to how we ended up getting rid of it, but it last like 5 days or so and it was godawful, i was screaming for my life while on the toilet it hurt so much......well just letting you pre ops know what your in for, but hope i don't scare you away, cause i'm still so happy that i had this surgery....my life is going to be so much better now....:)  

April 1, 2011 Month 4 of my journey

April 1, 2011

Weight:  342

Measurements

Waist: 60

Hips: 66

Breasts: 57

Ankle: 11

Wrist: 8 ¼

Thigh: 32 ¾

Neck: 18 ½

Upper Arms: 22

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 4X-5X 32-24

Pant: 3X-4X 30-34

Skirt: 3X-4X 30-34

Shirt: 4X-5X 32-34

This is from April 1, 2011 i know its shortly after last monthes pics and stats, but since i skipped the first of last month i wanted to make up for it and continue on with taking pics and stats on the first, so here ya go. :) That 4 week pre op diet was a bitch, but not as much of a bitch as this liquid post op 3 week diet, uggggggg....i hate soups....and not much of the drinks agree with me either right now...I cheated on the 4 week pre op, but only on the weekends, shhhhh i didn't let my doc know, but he said my liver was nice and small, but it did have fatty tissue on it and its a good thing i'm having the surgery now so i don't develop liver problems...so yay i did good....:) I lost like 20 pounds or so on the pre op diet so i was happy with that....

March 21, 2011 Month 3 of my journey

March 21, 2011

Day 1 of Pre op 4 week diet

Weight 359

Measurements

Waist: 60

Hips: 65

Breasts: 54 1/2

Ankle: 11 1/2

Wrist: 8 1/4

Thigh: 34

Neck: 19

Upper Arms: 21

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 4X-5X 32-24

Pant: 3X-4X 30-34

Skirt: 3X-4X 30-34

Shirt: 4X-5X 32-34

Ok with these pics please ignore the dirty carpet, i just wanted to get the pics taken and didn't clean first...oh well :( 

These were taken march 21 instead of march 1 because early march is when i got denied coverage for the lapband, then went on a 2 week bender....junk food, sodas, fast food....buffet's. I was pretty upset and did bad things....but funny enough didn't gain the weight i lost, or only 1 pound i guess......so i guess that's good....but that 2 weeks did make me realize that sodas are no good for me, i feel like crap when i drink sodas and that's way before ever having surgery.....so they aren't that hard to give up...and also the buffets i ended up going to the food ended up being cold at like each one and i hate cold food...so it was like a punishment for me going to the buffets lol.....although I'm gonna have to get used to eating cold food now since I'm going to have to eat so slow....but I'm sure it will be fine.....but when you get your food cold from the beginning and it was suppose to be hot...yuckkkkkk....is all i can say.  Oh unfortunately or fortunately i don't know i also found this awesome restaurant with my favorite, lemon chicken, uggg i haven't been able to find a Chinese restaurant with lemon chicken since i moved to the dfw area 5 years ago, and finally i find one and its sooooo yummy and i also discovered sushi....oh my god eel sushi is sooooo yummy and that's another thing i shouldn't really have.....or i guess i could get it with less rice.....after I'm at that stage anyways.....but i had to find this restaurant like literally a month or so before my surgery.....