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meeshaphrenic
on 9/7/05 6:30 am - Greensboro, NC

RNY on 03/31/05

Topic: RE: 5 month update (a little late) w/pics!

thank you!!! i'm glad too, i was starting to think that the honeymoon period was already over.

meeshaphrenic
on 9/7/05 6:28 am - Greensboro, NC

RNY on 03/31/05

Topic: RE: 5 month update (a little late) w/pics!

really? thank you!! i didn't notice as big of a difference, but you're like the 3rd person that said that so i guess i better start believing it! thanks again!

javafiend
on 9/7/05 6:08 am - Lebanon, TN

RNY on 03/30/05

Topic: I am NORMAL??????

I am 5 months and one week out today, so I got on the scale this morning. I have lost 90 pounds and have a BMI of 24.9!!!! OMG I AM NORMAL!!!! As soon as my hair stops falling out, I will get it dyed-because I am COMPLETELY gray. YAY, then I won't feel 100 years old anymore, I will be 38 again! (Maybe even less) People I haven't seen in a while are startled when they see me and say such charming things as..."I didn't realize you were THAT much overweight." "You look great...will that little skin thing there on your neck have to be operated on?" and the one I got yesterday that gave me the giggles..."Did the surgery cause your hair to turn white?" (I responded, "why, yes it did-the surgery is soooo hard on your body that I just didn't have the energy left to produce brunette hair any longer.") The only real problem I have is getting my blood pressure up and keeping it up so I don't get all tired. I was in the hospital two weeks ago because they thought I had appendicits. My bp at admittance was 62/35-so they decided I was dehydrated and pushed fluids and took my bp every hour. After a day and a half of constant fluids my bp finally got to 78/40! I don't know what the bp thing is all about, but it wasn't appendicitis...I had a ruptured ovarian cyst that abscessed. I am okay now tho!! Have a wonderful day...do a little happy dance-the exercise is good for ya! Rebecca R.

javafiend
on 9/7/05 5:31 am - Lebanon, TN

RNY on 03/30/05

Topic: RE: My Fat Legs and Butt!!!

Oh Myra! Thank you thank you thank you!!! I too, was "solid" before surgery and with jeans/pants on I can look down and see that my legs are finally starting to shrink. But with shorts on!!!! OMG, little kids tremble and ask their moms if thats what happens when you eat too much jello. (You are what you eat ya' know). I do know my but and legs are shrinking slowly, at the beginning of August I started wearing hubby's old jeans. Now at the beginning of September they are beginning to hang on me. I will be nekkid by the beginning of October. (I can't afford new clothes and will have shrunk out of the clothes I am borrowing from hubby and son!) I just feel sorry for the children of the area who will have to see all my saggy, baggy skin flapping around-jello sales are going to plummet! Have a great week! Rebecca

Stacey H.
on 9/7/05 5:10 am - Brooklyn Park, MN

RNY on 03/22/05

Topic: RE: C*E*N*T*U*R*Y C*L*U*B!

Thank you Becky. Yes - I am feeling MUCH thinner now. I forgot how good it feels to be (semi) in shape. And shopping......it's soooo fun! I hope you make it to Century this month yourself! Stacey