Losing Weight Feels Great!!!

I am in a sz lg. shirt and a sz 8 jeans in these pictures. I started out wearing a sz 26 jeans, and a 3x shirt. This outfit is pretty tight on me lol, but I wanted to try it on anyways. This is what I can't wait to get into comfortably. =)

Wow! What a ride this has been. I'm not finished yet but I have gotten so much closer to my final goal. It has help a lot for me to look forward to the smaller goals that I have set for myself. I just hit one of my big goals the other day. I have lost 145 lbs. I feel so blessed to be given this gift, this tool that I am using. I thank God everyday for giving me a second chance, for allowing me to have a new lease on life. I have become a brand new woman. It has not all been roses as you know by now. But it has not been as hard as it could have been. It is amazing to think, I have lost a whole person, as far as weight goes. My final goal weight is 140 and I have lost 145. It just boggles my mind. I am so excited for my husband to come home and see the new me. And to think one day I will actually be smaller than him LOL Well anyways, thank you all so much for your support! And thanks for stoppin by! I love you guys!

Well, I got on the scale today and i have lost 130 lbs. That means I only have 75 more lbs to lose. Today will be day 4 of P90X that I am doing with my neighbor and so far it has kicked my rear. I haven't had much going on, so that is it for now. Thanx for stopping by! Chow!

B4 and After

Picture of me the night my husband deployed

Our family portrait


I know I haven't posted a lot on here lately. Its been busy around here but not much to talk about. Well, my husband just got deployed. Before he left we went on a date night. So I am posting these pictures of that night.

Ok...so..the other day, I was dropping my son off at school. It was raining but not too hard. I walked him to his class. Then came back outside and it was raining harder. So in my genius head (and my recently a lot smaller body LOL) I decided that I would run to my van. So I took my daughters hand and off we went. I got half way to the van... AND as I was running....MY PANTS FELL DOWN!!!! LOL (not all the way, just past my butt) They were a pair of my favorite pants and they were too big but I hadn't let myself part with them because they are so comfortable. Anyhoo, I have never had my pants fall off me before so it was quite an experience. lol Talk about a success in weight loss...if that isn't a sign that I've lost a lot of weight, I don't know what is. LOL

Today is a special day. I went for a 2 mile walk again and I lost the last lb that I was suppose to lose to get to my 100 mark! I am so excited!! It was so HOT but it was well worth it!! Anyhoo! Thats all for now! Peace!!!

I put up yardsale info for this Saturday on www.campbellyardsales.com

Got on the scale today and I lost 5 lbs this past weekend! I am going on a 2 mile walk today so hopefully I will lose that 1 lb or more. I'm so excited, I feel like I am in a race to the finish line. I have 3 more lbs til I get to my halfway mark, so I can't wait for that! Well I'm fixin to go and walk away the lbs. TTYL!!!

This weekend I started out with 6 lbs to lose before I got to my 100 mark....So I have really been trying to kick butt to get to there. I went roller blading, which I haven't done in at least 8 yrs, and I had SO much fun! I am definitely going to be doing that again, as much as I can. Then the next day I went with a friend (who is also my neighbor) and her friend, on a two mile scenic walk. That was a lot of fun too. I am definitely not the same person I was before my surgery on March 22nd, 2010. I am a new and improved me and I am lovin' it!

Well I have lost 3 more lbs so far this weekend, and I am thrilled. Looks like my hard work is paying off. But I can't say that it was work cause I had FUN!! I'm so thankful everyday that I got the tool to help me lose weight!

Well Folks! That's all for now...thanks for stopping by, and I love to hear from you, so drop me a line! Have a great weekend and PEACE OUT!!

Oh...(sigh) I am feeling so emotional right now. I'm feeling so blessed and grateful to God for everything. I am just astonished at the new beginning that he gave me with the surgery I had. I can't believe that I am 15 weeks post op and have already lost 89 lbs! Its so overwhelming and Awesome!! I can't say just how thankful I am.

Well that is all for now... I will keep you all posted...Thanks for stopping by.

PEACE OUT!!

p.s.
I will be posting more pics soon!

Hey Every1! These are the next pictures of me at 75 lbs lost. Sorry, I got a little color happy on a couple of them LOL and I had to take a few of them myself. Thanx for stopping by and I'll keep you posted!

I am so excited to say... that I have reached my next goal in my weight loss journey!! I have lost 75 lbs as of today! I have one more bar on my weight loss meter thing and then I will be at my half way mark!! YAY!!!!! My next minnie goal is another 25 lbs... that is 6 lbs away from my half way mark. The half way mark is My first BIG goal, can't wait for that.

I just want to thank all of you for your support, when you read these posts, comment, and/or become a follower, it lets me know that you care and THAT gives me a lot of support, so thank you!! AND thank you Karla (one of my friends)for being there when I need you, and though you may not know it, dragging me out of any slumps I may have been in. You have been Awesome!And you are an inspiration to me! Love you, Girl!! Its nice to know that someone is right there with me.

I have had so much energy the last couple of days, you prolly can't imagine what it must feel like to be the weight that I was, having ABSOLUTELY NO energy, to having a lot. Being so over weight has taken a lot from me, but I plan to make up for all that!

Well Ima go for now.. Love you guys! I'll keep you posted...PEACE OUT!!

I know its been a while since I have posted new pics so here they are... Oh and all of the pics on here can be enlarged by just clicking on them. Thanks for stopping by...I'll keep you posted and thanks to all of you for your support!!

OK... so I'm a bit excited today LOL I went to my doctor's appointment and hopped on the scale....60 LBS LOST!!!! WOW! WOW! Everyone was so amazed, excited, and happy for me. I have had a really great day! LOL It was like going to a party! Anyhoo...I have been dropping sizes like crazy! I'm just exstatic....I am going to post pics on here as soon as I can get my hubs to take them....Thanks everyone for keeping up with my progress...just knowing that you care gives me support, I will keep you posted!

ok, so I passed up my second goal which was to lose 5 more lbs, to make it 50 lbs lost! so I'm at 52 lbs gone forever!!! YAY!! I made my 50 mark at 6 weeks post op. All my close that were fitting me fine 6 weeks ago are swimming on me and now I am on to my next wardrobe. I have gone down 3 dress sizes. The size I'm in now is just a little snug on me depending on the brand. That'll all change in a few days. My next goal is not a mini goal, it is another 50 lbs. So I can't wait for that!! That will be 100 lbs lost and 102 lbs to go. Well thats all for now, thanks for dropping by and I'll keep ya posted!!

Well, I stepped on the scale yesterday and and I made my first goal of 45 lbs. I stepped on the scale today and had lost 3 more lbs, which is 2 lbs away from my second small goal of 5 lbs to get to 50 lbs!! This is getting really exciting! I put on a pair of pants today that wouldn't even button last week and now not only fit but are a little loose on me. I haven't been feeling good all week but I'm doing a little better everyday. I'll be post more pictures of me soon. And I will keep you all posted!

I left a part of the hospital stay out and mixed it up too. The first time I went in for an upper GI they wheeled me in on a bed and stuck the thingy down my nose. The second time is when they wheeled me down and I tried to stand up and passed out. Then they put me on a bed and laid the x ray machine thing down and they scooted me over onto it. Then I had to drink a bunch of this clear nasty stuff. Then this white chalky stuff. But they let me gargle with water everytime I took a drink. The reason I had to do the upper GI again was to make sure everything was going down alright. And it was....That's when I went back to the room and they told me they decided to give me a transfusion....there...sorry bout leavin that out.

I am so excited! See I made a personal goal of 45 lbs and today I am 4 lbs away from that!!! YAAAAAAAAAAYYYYYYY!!!! If I had it to do all over again, I would! I know I had a few complications but I added years to my life by getting this surgery.

Well, this is the last day that I was in the hospital. I got up a puttered around awhile. I took a long shower. I took my time, I didn't really want to rush anything. We left there around 1 p.m. Before I was released I walked all the way down to Ms. Marklin's office. (She's my bariatric nurse.) She highlighted stuff in a book that she gave me and then I walked back up to my room. That was like the longest walk, EVER! Anyhoo, when I got back I was released and that was that. So here are some more pictures for ya. They are of flowers my hubby gsve me. Of me and my mom. Of my wheelchair ride. Of my family walking in front of the wheel chair. And me getting in my van.

Well, now we are down to the 4th day, this day (I already have talked about early this morning)Later Thursday morning, I got to take a shower, my mom helped me tremendously with that. Again, I could not have asked for a better person to be in there with me, she took awesome care of me.

When I got in the shower, the shower head was broken, so it kept falling over, but I didn't care, the shower felt SO good!! (wait, I forgot, sometime early Wednesday morning doctor Cronk said that I would be moved to a new room if I was doing good Thursday, So I was excited about that) Well, I had taken the worlds greatest shower and was feeling good, but all my usual nurses weren't there. There was a new one now, she came in, straightened everything up, talked about having a new tv in the rooms, just kinda bussed around in there.

Then we packed up all my stuff in a wheel chair and I walked to my new room. I was free of all the stuff that I had attached to me, at last! I had a nice nurse and nurse's assistant. I had to start taking everything by mouth, ya know, my pills and pain meds. And I had to walk around this (seemed like) giant hall way that went in a circle. It was tiring. I made it around once at a time. That was my day on day 4. Pretty uneventful, oh yeah! and doctor Cronk came in and said that if I was doing real good, that I could go home the next day. He said I was still really anemic but I was taking iron pills to make that better. So that was really good news. Now for some pictures of day 4.

Here are a few pictures of my incisions... Figured I should put those up sometime. SO here yeah go. Pretty gross!

Monday, I was put on a pureed diet after two weeks of being on a full liquid diet. I was happy but worried at the same time. Its kinda hard for me to eat. Like most of the time I have no desire to eat. But I have to, to continue my weight loss. I have been doing very well with vitamins and water. I was worried about protein. On my first day of eating pureed food and counting protein I kinda freaked out and called Ms. Marklin. LOL I mean, I can only eat 2 tbls at a time, how in the heck am I suppose to get 30-40 grams of protein a day. So I panicked and called the nurse... oh well, at least I'm not all laid back about it, I really want to do the right thing. So I found out there are many ways to get protein in my diet... I am doing alot better on that. Anyhoo, above is a picture of the first pureed meal I ate. It is tuna, egg, relish, mayo, and mustard.... oh, and a little cheese. YUM! I could only eat 2 tbs though. I am going to post more in a little while that is all on this though.

Here are my two weeks post op pictures. Sorry, my shirt is kinda bunched up in the back view.

Hello...I wanted to start this blog off by saying... I'm down 29 lbs!!! Losing weight really does feel great!

Anyhoo, ok, now for my second day in ICU. I remember sleeping some kinda in and out I got those hiccup thingys ALL through the night and early Tuesday morning. This nurse always checked in on me ANYTIME I stirred and she heard me. I wish I could remember all the nurses names but I was too out of it. So 4 o'clock in the morning rolls around and I had been nauseated for a little while, I tell my mom I'm gonna throw up and and she gets me a bucket and I start throwing up blood again. The nurses were around me doing what they knew to do and then I fall into a deep sleep. Well, that morning they sit me up for a while and I do ok like that. Doctor Cronk comes by and asks me if I think I could stand for a few minutes and I say maybe. So a nurse comes in the room and helps me in a wheel chair. My husband is in the room and he is talking to me and then all of a sudden I can't hear him. My blood pressure drops my heart rate goes up and I pass out, to lala land. Except I hear sing in my head, I kid you not lol, the song was Jesus hold my Hand. And then I come to and I'm in the whell chair still and I feel better. Doctor Cronk is in the mix somewhere but no one is standing out to me but me at this point. Poor doctor Cronk or anyone who talked to me, for that matter. Everytime someone talked to me I fell asleep, I was so weak and out of it. Anyway, so the nurse wheels me down to get an upper GI done. (You have to drink this yucky stuff and they look at your stomach and stuff.) I get down there to the room, the nurses help me up and I stand ans they instructed me. Then I got hot, couldn't breath, couldn't hear, and the next thing I know I'm lying with my back on the floor feet propped up head propped up because... yep you guessed it I had passed out. So the good thing is is that I didn't have drink that aweful stuff, did I say good news?? No, I only thought it was good news cause the alternative was Dr. Conk Sticking a tube in my nose down my throat, which made me gag....which made me like spray throw up and it was OLD NASTY BLOOD! EWWW! This was the most horrible thing I went threw, oh man! So they suck all the blood out, and put liquid in called contrast and look at everything. And they find it, its a blood clot. So now I have to go and get a scope down my throat (thank God I was asleep for that) but Dr. Conk says I will have to keep that thing in my throat for a couple of hours. OH GOD!! I thought, now this is just too much, I can't handle this, I need this thing out pronto! And I guess Dr. Cronk saw or just knew that because he got me in instantly. They went in and sucked the blood clot out and made sure there was no more bleeding. I don't remember waking up from that I just remember being back in my room. But I still couldn't sit up, now they know why. My blood level had been dropping so obviously I had been bleeding. I'll use Dr. Cronks words, he said I was pretty darn anemic. So I got a blood transfusion! wow! Crazy huh? So they gave me 2 bags of blood through that day and night. Each bag took about 3 hours to go throw. It made my body SO hot and flushed. But it made me feel good and strong at the same time. And as the night went on I felt stronger and stronger. They didn't want me to get up at first so guess what, I had to use a bed pan. That was not very comfy. and It was embarrassing...thats all I'll say about that. So during the middle of the night, I gotta go again, so I get to walk, they help me to the bathroom and then helped me back... I sat up on my own!! I walked on my own!! I went to the bathroom om my own!! Sorry got excited there lol Oh and the nurses were excited too they were just shocked. Because they had seen me the way I was the other times I tried to get up. I had to go to the bathroom three times that night. And then I sat in a chair at like 6 o'clock Wednesday morning. I had breakfast (liquids of course) and then I walked around the nurses station sometime that morning. Until I was really tired and wanted/need to go to bed. And I slept good. This is a picture on the 3rd day. The ones above are on day two.
Well....I will post more later, I gotta go for now...I'll keep you posted!

Today is 1 week post op, and so I weighed myself. I have lost...drum roll please.... 17lbs in 1 week!!! WOW!!! That's awesome. That's all for now. I'll keep you posted.

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Ok, so I know that I haven't posted anything in a while...so I guess I will delve into it all now... K..I got to the same day surgery at 6:30 a.m. and they took me and my mom to a little room. There I changed into their cute little night gown and laid in the little bed they had for me. They asked me a bunch of questions and those same questions were asked by several people. They put the wrist bands on me and then I cleaned the polish off my toes. The Awesome doctor Cronk came in and signed my belly and talked to me for a minute. Then the anesthesiologist came in, I sign papers and then he said he would be my bartender for the night lol and then they told me I probably wouldn't remember much after I got the meds I was fixing to get. So then he said, here is your first cocktail.... thats all I remember for a while....

Alot of what I'm about to tell you is not going to be very pretty or nice but I don't want to leave anything out.

My next memory is of me choking, but don't be alarmed I Barely remember that at all just very vaguely, it was either when they were putting the breathing tube in or taking it out, but it was not a bad feeling, it was kinda like what one might feel just being born... it was pretty cool to me, cause there was no pain, no panic. Then I remember my mom trying to wake me up but my eyes didn't want to open, but finally I came around. I was in the ICU room, throat was dry and my lips were very dry. About the best feeling in the world was when my mom swabbed my lips and mouth with ice water, but I didn't drink it. lol I couldn't have anything to drink or eat for the first 24 hours after surgery... that wasn't too bad to me, that whole night was kind of a blur... I just wanna say right here, that I had the best nurses ever! They were so awesome! The best one in there though was my mom, she was perfect. I don't know how I would have done this without her, She stayed at the hospital the whole time I was there. My husband had and still has a lot to do, while I was at the hospital he was taking care of the kid and things. And as soon as he got time he was by my side.
So, Anyways, as the night progressed, I had low grade fever. I was on oxygen, IV, heart monitor,Catheter, the usually.
So I started feeling breathless, and nauseated. That was pretty bad, I kept feeling like this on into the night and I just hate feeling nauseous. I don't know who doesn't. Anyways, every so often I would wake up and have these loud hiccup noises and they would hurt real bad if I hadn't had my pain meds yet but not too bad if I did have my pain meds. I woke up and started doing that hiccup thing, (between a hiccup and burp) and then I knew I was gonna throw up, so I quickly told some one and my mom grabbed a big pink bucket and here come the Nurses and I start throwing up...but wait!...I hadn't had anything to eat or drink in a long time, so I looked down and I should say to my horror, but I was so glad to be rid of what was in there, but to my horror, I was puking up a bucket of blood!! The taste alone was unsettling but you could imagine the anxiety and fear that I felt when I saw my blood in that bucket.

The nurses waited about 5 or more maybe 6 hours to try and get me up to walk. I was suppose to walk at 4 hours after but obviously I couldn't. Well the nurse came in there, It was a male nurse, but there were others that came in too. The nurse got me ready by unhooking me and all that, and so he goes to sit me up on the bed and I sit there, for probably seconds, I see a nurse coming in the door, she's talking but I can't hear her. My hearings gone, I can't breath right, and my sight is going. My eyes were rolling. The nurse laid me back down immediately, put everything back on me, my heart rate went way up to like 150 and my blood pressure went down to 76/53.. something like that, If you don't know, that is Very Low! Anyways, as soon as they laid me back down, I came too. I felt SO HOT! I remember different people washing my face with a cold wash clothe. It felt so good.

I'm so glad my mom wasn't in the room when I practically past out, she would've freaked out. She came in right after it happened.

So! That is about all I remember of the first 24 hours in there....
I will post the second day next.... Thanks for Reading!

Ok... So I have to be at the same day surgery at 6:30am tomorrow morning! I am totally stoked! Its finally here. I feel like doin a little dance, or screaming really loud LOL something!!! I'm not nervous right now, but I'm sure I will be tomorrow.

My overnight bag is almost all the way packed. I had a yummy breakfast. Eggs, sausage, and toast. I've started on just clear liquids until midnight, then I can't have anything.

I will post more as soon as I can!!

My last big meal was spent at Red Lobster. We went there Friday, It was SO good! I had stuffed mushrooms for appetizer, for the main course I had Steak, Scrimp Scampi, and mashed potatoes, with a side salad.

OK...so I finally took my before pictures....these are the pictures I normally would avoid taking, but it is something that I need to do...So here they are!