Progress

Hurt my foot last night, so exercise is out for awhile, lost 2lbs this week so don't think I will make my goal of 40 lbs in 3 months. So far lost 19 lbs in 1.5 months. 131lbs in 11 months.

June 12, 2007

Weighed 261 today. No update on picture yet too soon, but here is a picture of

May 2007

May 2007 me at 271, promised doc I would lose 40 lbs by end of July lost 6 so far, need to start exercising. Trying to get family on diet too. They are overweight, daughter is the worst, don't want her to have same troubles as I did.

This is me at 307 took about 5 months to get here. What I forgot to say in my first post, was that I was on duragesic patches for pain from fibromyalgia, now with some weight off, I am better able to handle the pain. I am off my diabeties meds, luckly didn't have high blood pressure, but did have an abnormal stress test. Can't get that checked out till after I am under 300lbs. too big for the angiogram table.

The Beginning

This is my before picture. Taken on Vacation May 2006. I had gastric bypass 7/11/2006, I had what is call a Biliopancreatic Diversion with Duodenal Switch, half the stomach is removed and half the small intestines. So I don't absorb as much fat, and can't eat as much. I have to take lots of vitamins for the rest of my life. For the first month I could only eat liquids, which made getting my proteins in very hard, I have to eat 68 gms a day. I try to avoid carbs. Eating proteins first then vegies then fruits.