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.....

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....

Jan 1, 2011 First day of my Journey

 

January 1, 2011

Weight:  366

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 my stats for January 1, 2011 When i started my journey, at the time i was going through the process of trying to get my insurance to approve me for the lapband surgery, but they ended up denying me even though i jumped through all their hoops....oh well i think it all worked out better in the end, when i got denied it got me thinking of the sleeve instead, and then i asked my family if they could help me out and they said yes and now here i am a few monthes later and i have my sleeve...woulda still been waiting for surgery if i had to go through appeal processes with my insurance, ugggg that wouldn't have been fun....already been through enough i think....oh well.  I'm going to post the past 5 monthes worth of pics and stats, each in their own blog and hopefully i'll try to keep up with them each month. 

I already feel like a new person

I woke up this morning and looked at myself in the mirror, and already at 50 pounds lost since Jan 1, can almost not recognize myself, i look so different, and i actually have a smile on my face now, I'm loving it, oh my god, i just feel great, i wanted to scream in front of the mirror, it was fun....and my clothes they're already fitting so big, its sooooo nice, i can't wait to start going shopping, but i already have a bunch of smaller sizes to last till at least 250.....and then the shopping spree begins, :) my favorite part about loosing the weight, and I'm really good at buying clothes cheap...i always buy clearance that's marked down even more, so i get some great deals don't like spending more then 10 bucks on a piece of clothing, the other day my mom got me some smaller sized clothes at Catherine's some were 90 cents and some were 4.50, and then she also got me a special dress that was a bit more then i would spend myself but she said go ahead and that was like an 80 dollar dress got it for 40 and then another 10 percent off that cause i used my perks card....I love sales....this is just an amazing feeling i love it, love love love it......i am never going back to that 366 pound girl again, never never never, I'm so happy, I had my therapist appointment yesterday, he thinks I'm doing great and he says he's being selfish cause he still wants me to see him so he can see how i change over the month's, but that its up to me, and I'm like yea defiantly still want to see him cause i know I'm going to be going through so many changes it'll be nice to have a therapist during this time, and plus my insurance already approved me for like 11 sessions this year might as well take advantage. 
Oh the food thing issss soooo hard when you got family all around you eating yummy looking meals though, and I'm eating this liquidy yuckness.....but I'm getting through it as best as i can, I'm usually in the living room and they'll eat at the kitchen table, although sometimes they'll still eat right in front of me.....but I just try not to think about it, its a bit hard, but I'll make it about a week and half more till i can have solids, my hubby said he'd make me an egg before he goes to work on my first day of solids, since i suck at making eggs, he makes them nice and fluffy i make them hard and rubbery.