Some Before Pictures

Day #6 Post Surgery

I have not updated my blog since surgery.  I am awful at updating this thing I swear.  I need to go through facebook and post a bunch of my statuses since then.  I have been pretty much out of it since surgery.

Surgery went well.  I went in about 9:30 and woke up probably about 3 or 3:30.  Yet again I had a rough time getting incubated, gotta love my small mouth and throat sigh.  I also had rough time waking up, I am such a bitch waking up from anathesia!  Pain wise I was pretty high, maintained about a 7 on a pain scale.  I was up and walking, I did it most of the night so I wouldn't have the gas pains.  Thank goodness the gas pains never were an issue.

My hospital stay wasn't the most pleasant.  I had a roommate that had dimentia and wow she had a rough time being there too.


I came home my 2nd day from surgery, March 21.  I was so happy!  Hydrocodone has been keeping my pain levels pretty good.  I am keeping up with getting up and moving.  I have done a few trips to Hannaford to get my walking in.  Today though I think I did too much and my body hurts.  Also one of my incisions look pretty angry.  I am going to keep an eye on it.

Food wise, I have been eating a bunch of yogurt, popsicles and a few shakes.  I am not getting all of my liquid in that I should, but I keep trying to sip sip sip.



March 19th (surgery date)  316

March 25 311

Day #10

Today was super busy, I had a policy council meeting and parent teacher conference.  I honestly haven't had much to "eat" today and I am not hungry at all.  I made concoction of a soup, french onion and cheddar cheese soup.  It wasn't good. I am having a lot of muscle cramps.  I know I am drinking a lot of water but guess I need something else.   Almost there.



Breakfast
V8 splash and unflavored protein powder

Lunch
Water

Dinner
G2 gatorade


I guess I didn't eat anything at all.

10 days down 4 to go!!!

Day #9

Not really a lot to say today.  I am mad that my friends will be eating cinnamon rolls tomorrow at policy council meeting.  Oh well, I am gonna try a cinnamon bun protein shake tomorrow.  I am hungry, really hungry.



Breakfast

cookies and cream protein shake with lactaid

Lunch

V8 fruit juice and unflavored protein powder

Dinner

broccoli cheese soup

Snack

cookies and cream protein, milk, ice cream and peanut butter

9 days down 5 to go!

Some Facts about Gastric Bypass

Today I wanted to share some facts and statistics about Gastric Bypass Surgery.

At EMMC in 2010 and 2011, operative mortality at 30 days after discharge for all procedures was 0%. The standard for safe bariatric programs is to have less than 0.5% 30-day operative mortality. 

According to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive & Kidney Disease (NIDDK), less than 1% of all cases of bariatric surgery result in death.

I thought this was an interesting quote from Al Roker

After gastric bypass surgery they make you go through therapy, but a realization that came to me after writing my book was that I should have gone to the support group they offered. As mentioned in my book, I knew I needed to make some very basic changes in my life ... for me.

I think the support groups will help me a lot.  I know they have already helped me in my decisions about surgery.

Bariatric Surgery Dramatically Improves Health.National data compiled from 136 scientific reports totaling bariatric surgical results of 22,094 patients¹showed that:

• 76.8% were cured of diabetes
• 86% improved diabetes
• 70% improved high cholesterol
• 61.7% were cured of high blood pressure
• 78.5% improved high blood pressure
• 85.7% were cured of sleep apnea

Better Survival Rate for Bariatric Surgery Patients. McGill University compared five-year survival of their 5,746 morbidly obese patients managed medically with 1,035 patients who underwent surgery, matched by sex, age, and duration of being obese.³The results:

• Five-year mortality of 6.17% in the no surgery group
• Five-year mortality of 0.68% in the surgical group

What is gastric bypass surgery, a lot of my friends have asked this question.

ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS

Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery uses a combination of restriction and malabsorptionto reduce calories. During the procedure, which takes an average of 75 minutes to perform, the surgeon creates a smaller, egg-sized stomach pouch, using about 5 percent of your stomach and separating off the rest. The surgeon then attaches a Y-shaped section of the small intestine directly to the pouch. This allows food to bypass a large portion of the small intestine, which absorbs calories and nutrients. Having the smaller stomach causes patients to feel fuller sooner and eat less food. At the same time, bypassing a portion of the small intestine means the patient’s body absorbs fewer calories. Gastric bypass procedures are potentially reversible, although this is not usually performed.

inches

18 54 50 62 32



321 lbs 18 inch neck 50 under boobs 55 around belly button 62 around hips and 32 thighs. I am down from 350 from november

Day #8

Ugh!  I am having the opposite problem of the problem I have been having the last 8 weeks.  OUCH!!!  Gonna step up the water intake a notch. It's getting hard to imagine in less than a week now I will have a tiny pouch as a stomach and hopefully doped up on good drugs lol.  I have also learned that V8 juice blech.  Sorry Aunt Jo, it's nasty lol.


Breakfast
2 scoops of cookies and cream protein with lactaid

Lunch
vanilla protein and lactaid

Dinner

broccoli and cheese soup (didn't eat the big chunks of broc)

Drank a shitload of water this evening (who knew shitload was a real word, no red line underneath!)

8 days down 6 to go!!!!

Day #7

Half way mark!  Had a last minute meeting this morning, then hung out with Kristy for a bit.  I had to leave her house, cause I wasn't feeling good.  I was very nauseous, head hurt, just felt like crap lol.  I weighed myself this morning 11 pounds down since last tuesday.

Breakfast

cookies and cream protein shake with lactaid

Lunch

Pineapple smoothie with a protein scoop from Bell the Cat (wasn't impressed and it was expensive)

Dinner

Cream of Broccoli Soup (added pepper cause my smaht aunt suggested)



7 days down 7 days to go

Day #6 Kinda Shitty

Not sure if it is the liquid or the stomach infection or the actual milk I had, but yep from the title you can guess what has been up with me.  My tummy hurts pretty bad :(  I reply to friend's statuses about food and such and they all feel bad for talking about food.  I actually enjoy reading about it, since I can't partake next best thing is reading right?

Breakfast

Cookies and Cream protein shake with real milk and a spoon of pb :)

Lunch

lots of water and water with mio  (wasn't hungry)

Dinner

Cookies and cream shake with milk and ice cream  Oh so yum, yum yum.

I need to get some V8 or something tomorrow.

Oops messed up last night's count was wrong 6 days down 8 to go

Day #5

Today wasn't so bad.  Went to another meeting, do I live at meetings?  I was really starting to get a headache during the meeting wasn't sure if it was the content or wanting food lol.  I met up with my fabulous Aunt Jo.  She's been worried about the amount of protein I have been getting and honestly haven't been getting enough at all.  She purchased me a tub of muscle milk cookies and cream.  I tried it without water, first time I have tried one of these powders without lactaid and it wasn't that bad.  It went down really quick. I am too lazy to get up but it has a really good amount of grams of protein.  I haven't mentioned this in my blog because I usually already wrote it before I get my munchies.  At night right after I take my nighttime meds I get super hungry and is the biggest time I usually snack.  No different now on the liquid.  Tonight I think I am going to have some hot tea or something.

Dinner tonight was AWESOME!  Dad made some really good chicken soup and I had two bowls of broth.



Menu

Breakfast

Chocolate protein shake with lactaid
8 oz OJ

Lunch

Cookies and Cream protein powder

Dinner

2 bowls of chicken broth
1 designer whey protein 2 go drink mix lemonade


Not enough water today

5 days down 11 to go

What I am looking forward to.....

Yes I am looking forward to getting healthy, living longer blah blah blah lol  But there are a ton of superficial things I am looking forward to.


Shoes, buying lots and lots of pretty shoes!  Not wide suckers that make me look like a man.

Cutting and painting my own toe nails without it being a workout.

Sitting in a booth

Sitting in an airplane seat with no extender

Running around the playground with Andrew

Being able to buy regular clothes


There are a ton more but that's what I got at the moment lol

Day #4

Today was so so.  I was able to get Andrew dressed and off to school.  I went back to bed afterwards though lol.  I did make my first attempt at juicing while we got ready.  It was ok.  I did cucumber, carrots, strawberries, oranges and a little apple juice.  My second attempt tonight sucked though, was full of pulp and green crap and blech!  I did make a smoothie though for dinner.  I put plain yogurt, strawberries, a little apple juice and half a scoop protein powder.  It was ok, the vanilla protein powder I got made it taste yucky.  So I ordered some unflavored on amazon.  I did have a test tonight, dad and Andrew had english muffin pizzas for dinner.  I love pizza, like it's the best food in the whole wide world.  I totally stayed away from it!!!



Breakfast

My own juice concoction

Lunch

odwalla super monster protein crap (tasted like dirt)

Dinner

failed juice concoction
so so smoothie

Lots of water

4 days down 10 more to go!

Day #3

Today really wasn't so bad.  I am still hungry, still want to chew.  But I was able to actually get up and move.  I met my friend Amanda at our boy's school to get the magic bullet juicer she's letting me borrow.  Then Andrew and I went to the store and bought some veggies and fruits for my juicing explorations.  Then I had a WCAP board meeting.  I was pleasantly surprised that they had chicken soup for dinner.  I ate the broth and did sneak a couple pieces of shredded chicken.  BUT the chicken was extremely shredded, so I don't count it as a solid lol.

Day 3 Food

Breakfast
ZZZzzz again I was asleep for breakfast lol

Lunch

8 oz Orange juice
Protein shake

Snack
Yogurt

Dinner
chicken broth

Snack
Cucumbers

Lots of water

Rough Day!

Today I have felt like poop.  Head hurts, no energy, just ick.  Also I started having my prior issues with my stomach.  Probably from the cucumbers I ate last night. I have not eaten much at all today.  I woke up to get Andrew dressed then went right back to bed.  I woke up about 11:30.  Then laid on the couch and watched Gossip Girl.  Damn you Kristy, getting me into a show I said I would never watch.  I took probably two naps.

Menu

Breakfast
ZZZZzzzzzzzzzz

Lunch
Water
Yogurt

Snack
Water

Dinner
Protein Shakes
Cucumbers
1 chicken strip (yep I cheated)

Didn't write down my water intake but it was a bunch.

2 days down 12 to go.

First Day of Liquids

So the first day of my two week torture has come and almost has gone.  Day was pretty busy, had a state parent advisory board meeting in waterville.  I was able to eat my shake and yogurt while everyone else was eating some beautiful pork tenderloin roast with apple and raisin chutney, awesome cornbread and oatmeal raisin cookies.  The only thing that was triggering my anguish was the cornbread!  We went to walmart, I got a few more liquid diet supplies, soup, yogurt, and mio.

My menu for the day
Breakfast
Vanilla Whey Protein shake with lactaid 2% milk
16 oz water

Lunch
Chocolate Whey Protein shake with lactaid 2% milk
activia yogurt
16 oz water

Dinner
Half can of tomato soup
1 whole cucumber with a little salt and crushed red pepper

Total water intake 128 oz

Looking forward to tomorrow.