My Gastric Sleeve Journey Video 7 June 3, 2011

This my Gastric Sleeve Journey Video 7 from june 3, 2011 at the end of the video i included my little happy dance for hitting twoderville (200s) although at the time i made it i wasn't really that happy i was kinda in a bad mood, depressed, irritable, just not all there really,  had been for the past 3 weeks, i'm feeling a lot better now though.

February 1, 2011 Second month of my journey

February 1, 2011

Weight: 358

Measurements

Waist: 62 ½

Hips: 65 ½

Breasts: 57

Ankle: 11

Wrist: 8 ½

Thigh: 34

Neck: 18 ½

Upper Arms: 21 ½

Clothing Sizes

Dress: 4X-5X 32-24

Pant: 3X-4X 30-34

Skirt: 3X-4X 30-34

Shirt: 4X-5X 32-34

These are from February 1, 2011.  I lost my actual stats, but I figure they were probably about the same as january since i only lost 8 pounds that month, i actually lost it the first week of january, i stopped drinking sodas and stopped eating at buffets not that we ate at buffets often but still something you kinda need to give up if your having weight loss surgery otherwise it'd be a way waste of money....

Surgery Tuesday

Well i'm good to go for surgery, basically when i went to see the cardiologist,he came in the room after all the tests and said well you need to loose weight...but apparantly you already know that, and so he approved me for surgery, so i'm good to go for tuesday, thank god.  Unfortionately though i've been going through some other things, basically the day after i recieved my checks from my great aunt i found out she had a big tumor in her like my grandma had, so my dad took her to houston to go to a cancer hospital and she had surgery and its been stop and go with her, she was in critical condition, and then she went into cardiac arrest and they had to do the paddles on her, and oh man it's just been so depressing and hard, and with all that going on and me having surgery this week, its just been really nerve racking, and scary, and we still don't know if she's going to make it out of all this, plus after the first surgery something exploded in her and the cancer might have spread, but i don't know much about it, and i had to find all that out friday when i was at the airport waiting for my mom to fly in, and the flight was also of course delayed, we had to wait there like 5 hours or something, and when i found out about my aunt being in critical condition i broke down in the airport and started crying and started seeing her face in everyone or at least in a lot of people, it was kind of creepy, i was wondering at that point if maybe she had passed on, but i was glad she was still alive, but i'm like still tossed up, i mean if she does survive, it might not be for that long and she might suffer till she finally just goes, or if she goes now while she's under all kinds of meds its more peaceful and not painful, so its so hard, and neither way really sounds that great, I know she's had a nice long life, but it's still so hard to loose someone.  I just hate cancer, and hate death, and now i'm going into surgery too, and that just makes it so much scarier, i know i'm way younger then her and everything and she's been really unhealthy for a while, but still surgery is scary.....well i just lost my train of thought cause my mom walked in so i guess i'll end this for now, and write more later....

Surgery Date April 19

Well its 2 weeks till surgery, i'm getting really excited, i've lost 24 pounds so far since january 1, I got my pre surgery testing scheduled for this friday. my great aunt is sending me the money to pay for the surgery today, so i should get it later in the week.

Well some backstory....i was originally going to have the lapband, well i went through all the jumps and hoops the insurance required but yet they still denied me....so that got me thinking of having the gastric sleeve instead, but of course the insurance didn't cover that even if i did try to appeal the denial....so i asked my family, my great aunt and grandparents if they could chip in and help me pay for the surgery, and i waited half a week for their answer, and they said yes, and so i finally got my surgery date, and started my pre op 4 week diet, they are having me do the slim fast diet, lost 16 pounds the past 2 weeks.....so thats pretty good,
i did cheat a little, especially this weekend, i had a slice of pizza on saturday, and some chocolate on sunday and also went out to dinner sunday at a japanese restaraunt had eel sushi, which was really good, first time i had tried it....on a big sushi kick lately, and they also had my favorite lemon chicken, oh it was soooo good, me and my husband shared the lemon chicken and the sushi rolls. So thats going to be our new favorite restaraunt when i'm all healed up and can go out, i figure if we share and i take home leftovers it'll be fine to have a special treat once in a while..