X-post: 5 month update, with pictures!

Hello everyone,
I know my 5 month update was spoused to be a couple days ago, but I got busy with school testing and such. Good news with that is we got my results and I got super high scores on the state wide testing  and all my school work papers have all been 99's, 98's and 85's. So my teacher told me that I just need to finish up my classes and I can for sure graduate and get my diploma. So that is really awesome.

I also just got done with physiology and health and to my surprise it was actually pretty easy for me, and I'm sure its because of all the research I did when I was learning about the DS! lol it was awesome. It had a lot of questions about the digestive system, health insurance, blood, bones, organs, and so on. It was pretty easy for me. I also just finished up my psychology class as well. Now I am working on business and consumer math, its teaching me how to budget and keep a check book, pay bills, and how to buy a car and so on. So I think that will be really useful for when I go out on my own.

My weight loss has been going pretty good, I don't ever really weigh myself because I don't have a scale and so I just get weighed whenever I go to see my PCP. I haven't seen him in a while and the last time I did see him I weighed in at 447, so I plan on going to see him tomorrow or the next day to get my blood work done. I also had to speak to a nutritionist which wasn't much fun, she got so confused about the DS and she even said that it sounded "insane" to her? so I just told her that if shes going to be my nutritionist she should research the DS for herself and try and understand. lol. I even told my PCP to give her a copy of the packet I had given him when I first ever brought up the idea of the DS to him.

I have been dealing with this "emotional roll coaster" which I am sure is related to weight loss and hormones and all that jazz but so far its ok. I understand and its good to know that I'm not going crazy lol! Thats also a way for me to tell that I am losing weight lol. When my emotions start going crazy I just remind myself that its just part of the deal so I don't really mind.

I take all my vitamins and I drink all my water, and some days I can eat a lot and then the next day I cant eat much, Ive gotten use to that. lol. I drink my protein shakes at least 2 a day and sometimes 3. I mix  mine with half and half, what is weird is before surgery I was lactose intolerant and I really couldn't handle milk. But for some reason now it doesn't even bother me.....I know that we usually become lactose intolerant after surgery but is it possible that it went away for me after surgery?

I use the Jay Robb egg white protein shakes, I really can't handle any other, mostly because of the tastes  but the Jay Robb ones taste good to me! No after taste! 

Some wow's:
-I fit a lot more cloths now and I am really enjoying how my body is starting to look, even though it is kinda deflated in some places I really don't mind. And clothes are fitting way better! I think its awesome to watch my body change over these months.

-I can walk for so much longer now! Its amazing. It just blows my mind.

-I can play with my sisters a lot more now! Lol my younger sister likes to play fight with me (we don't hurt one another but we laugh soooo much!) its really nice to be able to do things with them.

-My mom got a gym membership and were gonna start going swimming and walking and things like that For once ever I'm excited to exercise!

-My sister says "you have a neck now!!!!" Lol!! and its true I do! Its awesome, and my mom even bought me a really pretty little necklace and I didn't even have to buy a chain extender!!! How awesome is that??! AND she bought a beautiful little beaded bracelet that a lady was selling for $5! they are insanely beautiful and I think they are worth way more the $5!! but anyway my mom bought me one and IT FIT!!! it was a small little thing and I thought that I could just give it to my mom if it didn't fit but I tried it on and it fit! 

-My hair is growing! Its awesome, I don't know why its finally growing now, because even before surgery it seemed like my hair just stopped growing. I was use to it growing like crazy really really fast, but then it just stopped. And after surgery it started to fall out like crazy and so I started taking biotin and I up'd my protein and the hair-loss slowed. It's still falling out but not as much as before, but now its also growing so much longer!!! I'm loving it.



Some not so great things are:
I have some pain around my scar, for a while the whole area around my scar had gone numb and it was good! because then I could sleep anyway I wanted. But now the feeling has returned to the area around my scar and its kinda painful. It almost feels like I've pulled a bunch of muscles under and around my scar. And when I sleep I can't sleep on my stomach because its uncomfortable.

Another thing is I am getting some unusual rashes on random places, I got a rash on my stomach and a rash on my chest. These rashes are dark in color, not red and they are really itchy......I don't know what they are but I will be asking my PCP. I have no idea if they are wls related but I've never had them before. And when they go away they leave a ugly scar :/

Other, a little story. Like the 2nd part of my "lunch with aunt" post I made before surgery a while back.
Some of you will remember a while ago before I had surgery I had went to lunch with my aunt and my mother. My aunt was telling me about a diet she was on where she injected herself with some crap and ate SUPER tiny portions of food and so on, and she claimed that it "burned away the 3rd layer of fat for good" and she was REALLY trying to make me not get surgery and just pay $1,000 for that diet thing. I had came on here and asked if anyone knew about this "diet" and we found out that what she was injecting was a steroid and that it was dangerous. And that her calorie intake was dangerously low.

Any-who, so we told her and she ignored us and continued on that "diet" she lost like 20 pounds and now she swears by it. She randomly stopped by last night (she hasn't seen me since 2 weeks before surgery, when I was at my biggest) and when she came in to visit she looked me up and down and said "Have you even lost any weight??" I was a little taken back and said "Yes I've lost 88 pounds...." and she said "Hm *dramatic rude eyeroll*" 

  then she continued to tell me about the "Great" diet and that I "need to do it because it looks like your weight loss surgery isn't working". I wanted to tell her so bad that, that "diet" she was doing was dangerous and just a scam.....but I didn't, I kept to myself. Sometimes even my mom tells me that I look like I gained weight.....

But its ok, I'll be ok their just trying to bring me down lol. I love my DS and I know that it will take some time, and I am ok with that . 


Here is a before picture of me and a current one:

This is me a couple weeks before leaving to Brazil. 535 pounds.




This was me about a week ago. New outfit and a high waist belt =D 
 

I know one is closer and the other is further away :/ I hope you guys can still see a difference lol.

Thanks for reading! 


-Jessy

WOW!!!  I can see a remarkable difference.

Continued blessings to you.

Morning Jessy,

Girl you look wonderful!  That wl is very noticable, and the belt accents your shrinking waist.  You are such a beautiful young woman.  Congratulations on your wl success thus far, and continue to work your program.

Happy Holidays,

J

Jessy!


YOU LOOK FANTASTIC!!!! Keep up the GREAT work!!!!

AWESOME

OMG!!! Girl you look fabulous!  Congrats sweetie!!!!! 

Awsome! Keep up the good work!

Looking good! Keep working it!

Hey Jessy, my DS sista!! You are doing sooooo great. The best is yet to come

Can we see a difference???  Big difference!!! Look at that waistline!  Congratulations to you.