How are we doing? (Yet again!)
You are such a newbie that we are all reliving our surgeries daily with you. You are doing incredibly good, and I can tell you are going to follow the rules all the way to your goal.
Hugs to you to keep close while you slide down that scale!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
2.CURRENT WEIGHT AND LBS. LOST 123 pounds
3. MAIN SOURCE OF PROTEIN: beef, pork, chicken, fish.
4.WATER CONSUMPTION?: I'm not good at this....
5. ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH VITAMINS? Yes.
6.WHAT VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS ARE YOU TAKING? Two multivits per day, B-12, Calcium
ANY HAIR LOSS? Some, but it all came back.
8. WHAT KIND OF EXERCISE ARE YOU DOING? I'm not too good at this either. However I swim, bike and walk 10,000 steps per day.
9. WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT CHALLENGES? Working on increasing my fluid intake and hardwiring exercise into my life.. Learning to be kinder and more forgiving of myself.
10. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE WHOLE WLS EXPERIENCE? Best thing I EVER did for myself
11. WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR "WOW" MOMENTS? Realizing that my jeans size is smaller than my shoe size! Fitting into any chair. Being called "tiny" Realizing that people are kinder and more considerate to slim people than they are to obese people. (Doesn't that just make you MAD?)
12. DO YOU HAVE AN "ISSUE" WITH SLEEPING? Not a bit.
13. OK, we're being open sisters here....ANY PROBLEMS WITH CONSTIPATION? Nope - I know, I am lucky.
I do resent the fact that people are much nice to me now that I'm a normal size. They notice me where before it was like I was invisible. Glad you brought that up.
You are very lucky having no sleep or constipation problems. Good for you!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
RNY - 10/07
Rt. Hip Replacement - 4/08
Upper Body Lift - 11/08 (Dr. Timothy Katzen)
Lower Body Lift - 3/09 (Dr. Timothy Katzen)
It sounds like you have been pro-active in making sure you get the help you need when you need it. That is so important for all of us.
I don't envy you going through the change. I did it medically when I had a full hysterectomy when I was 46.
Don't worry, I'm in 3rd grade when it comes to computers, too...but I'm sure glad we have them in our lives, aren't you??
Keep up the great work.
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
1. Surgery date , weight, height: Surgery date June 18, 2007, weight 305.5 height: 5'1" 2. Current weight and pounds lost. Current weight 130 total pounds lost 175.5 3. Main source of protein: fish, chicken, beans, turkey ground, cottage cheese 4. Water: 112 ounces and day 5. Keeping up with vitamins. This is one thing that I do faithfully. 6.Vitamins: I take 2 multi, without iron, 2 iron (29mg each) 3 citracal, b-12 daily. Vitamin D 10,000 mg once a week 7. Any hair loss. Yes, I had a lot of hair lose from 4 months to about 9 months. I have baby fine hair and so it really showed. I have cut it so short and it is now starting to grow out so maybe by Christmas I will have a little longer hair do. 8. what kind of exercise I am doing. I go to the gym everyday. I get a ride there so when I am done I walk home about 1.7 miles. I do yoga everyday and take 3 yoga classes a week. I have been in two 5k marathons and was called by my local Home Depot to walk with them in the Raley for life that will be at our local college on July 19-20. This is the 24 hour walk. 9.what are my challenges: Not falling back into old habits. I have find that the stress eater has come back. I thought I had this part of myself under control. LOL. She has found her way back into the fore front of my being. 10.My feeling about the WLS experience. I would not change one second. With all the pit falls that come with my mental attitude I love everything about myself now. 11. what are some of the WOW moments. Too, too many to count. Most of all it is the mental WOW moments that give me such great joy. I have finally started to live the life I truly was meant to live. 12. Any issues with sleeping. I used to, but now I have been sleeping like a baby. I think it has to do with the exercise and especially the yoga. 13.Constipation. Yes, since about three weeks out. It now comes and goes. I eat 4-6 prunes a day and that has seem to help. Debi
You weight loss is nothing short of a miracle.........175.5 lbs!! Wow.....what a life transformation!
It seems we now are into the maintenance part of this whole drama, and I'm finding that more tricky than the losing part. I know I can eat more...but I don't, and when I try to fill 'er up, I end up hanging over the toilet letting go of it anyway. Figuring out what I can eat that will keep the pounds from falling off without making me sick is my challenge.
Thank you so much for sharing your wonderful journey with us. I KNOW you will inspire many....you certainly have me.
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
1. SURGERY DATE, WEIGHT, HEIGHT: Sept 26, 2007 , 5'7"
2.CURRENT WEIGHT AND LBS. 254
3. MAIN SOURCE OF PROTEIN: yogurt, cottage cheese
4.WATER CONSUMPTION?: I don't drink enought I need to work on this.
5. ARE YOU KEEPING UP WITH VITAMINS? I need to work on this also, I forget to take them.
6.WHAT VITAMINS AND SUPPLEMENTS ARE YOU TAKING? Multi Viamin when I remember..
7. ANY HAIR LOSS? No, and I have really thick hair, in fact I usually get it thinned when I go get a hair cut 8. WHAT KIND OF EXERCISE ARE YOU DOING? I had 3 hip surgeries after my lap band was done so for a couple months it was exercise just for me to get up and walk to the bathroom. I am trying to get DH to go to the YMCA with me so we can water walk.
9. WHAT ARE YOUR CURRENT CHALLENGES? ice cream, we had company last weekend and we had ice cream.
10. HOW DO YOU FEEL ABOUT THE WHOLE WLS EXPERIENCE? Wished I could have done this 30 years ago. I am already feeling so much better. I would do it over again and again if I had too.
11. WHAT ARE SOME OF YOUR "WOW" MOMENTS? Buying clothes ......OMG I can be picky what I wear instead of hoping it will fit. Walking the stairs to my office. Wearing panty hose that don't go squish squish sound when I walk. Seeing the look on my son's face when he saw me a couple of months after surgery. Feeling bones in my body........yes I do have ribs.
12. DO YOU HAVE AN "ISSUE" WITH SLEEPING? Right now I do, but not because of WLS, it is do to the fact that the weather radio is going off all the time at night.
13. OK, we're being open sisters here....ANY PROBLEMS WITH CONSTIPATION? For me, YES.......Ow ow ow yes I sometime take colace for this or drink chocolate soy milk and that seems to do the trick.
You are doing great, but don't forget your water and your vitamins. Must make those a part of your daily routine. Don't want you getting into physical trouble.
Ice cream was one of my trigger foods in the past, and it still finds it's way into my frige, but now in the form of slow churned, low fat kind, and in sandwiches and bars. I have them every day, and those seem to cut my craving for real ice cream.
Oh yes!....you reminded me of how strange and wonderful it is to lay in bed and feel bones.......lots of bones!! I can put my hands on my hips and rest them on bones! Used to now be able to find any bones!!
Thanks for playing...wonderful responses!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
