I Am In The Clouds

Wow, I am still on a high from yesterday. Going to the Sergeons and finding out that I had lost 13 pounds was great for me. I was feeling like this may all be for nothing, but it gives me encouragment to keep going. It is the greatest feeling.

I have started walking at work during first break, I am just praying that I can do as good this up coming week as the last. I am thinking about doing Water Aerobics in the evening with my friend Jessica, but I haven't decided yet. The only problem with that is, "you have to put on a bathing suit" *EEK* I do not like the thought of that. Maybe after I loose about 100 lbs then I will think about putting one on.

I am wanting to have surgery with in the next month, it has been a long 10 months and I am ready to have it all over with. So I can start the next leg of my journey.

I hope that none of you mind if I use this as my journal! There are so many things that I am thinking, and the emotions are absolutley in sain. There were two days last week that I totally lost it; I just sobbed. When my sweet husband asked me why I was crying I told him it was because I was tired and I didn't feel good.

I actually noticed that today hasn't been too bad. A little bit of Dizziness first thing this morning but it didn't last long. I hope that the rough part of this diet is past and that the next leg is easy sailing. I didn't realize how hard it is on your body to not give it what it thinks it needs to survive through the day.

Nothing very exciting happened today, well I had to take Mark to the Doctor because he is really sick. It is the first time since we got married that he has been sick. He has an infection in his right Tonsil, it is so swollen that it is blocking his air passage and they said if it doesn't start going down they are going to have to put him in hospital. He has a follow up appointment tomorrow with the doctor to see if the swelling is going down.

I will keep you all up to date on how he is doing. He is very contageous and I pray that I don't get it. I hope that all of you have a good night, and I want to thank all of you again on your continuing support.

Ronda G.

I was Victorious

I just wanted to make a small post and let every one know, that after days of fretting about going up and weighing in I finally bite the bullet and did it.

By watching my Proteins (100 g.) a day and my Carbohydrates (25 g) a day; cutting sugar and carbination out of my diet I lost 13 pounds in 10 days. I was so excited that I almost burst!

So this next week I am going to step it up and actually try exersicing and see how I do then.
I just wanted to share my exciting news with every one; and thank the few of you who look at my blog every day for your support. It means alot too me.

Ronda

Dieting and Afraid to Weigh

My diet is going pretty good, still a little difficult but everyday it gets a little better. Most of the time I am nauseated and very light headed and all I want to do is sleep. But other than that I am OK. I have gone 10 days with out sugar and don't even want it any more. In fact it is crazy when "I" am craving beef jerky, because I don't like beef jerky. *feel my forehead*

Tomorrow night I am going up to the Hospital to weigh in.

I am a little nervous, I know that I have lost weight but I am not sure how much. I have noticed a difference, I'm just afraid that it might be less than what I am hoping for. I keep telling my self that no matter how much it is, it just puts me that much closer to my goal.

It will be nice to know how much I have lost so that I can evaluate what I am doing so I can decide if I need to kick it up a notch, or whether or not I need to take things out of my diet or add things.

I think that I need to take out a few more carbs, I can't believe how hard it is not too eat carbs! There are carbs in everything some good and some bad and some times I am not sure how to tell that difference. I am trying really hard and I will eventually get it all figure out.

I will make a post tomorrow night and let all of you know how much I lost if any and let you know whether of not I am going to change how I am doing things.

I really appreciate all of your love and support!
Thank You!

Missing Paper Work and Nightmares

I turned my paper work into the Dr. office back in October, I was planning on having surgery before or just after Thanksgiving. Well a month went by and I hadn't heard anything so I started making phone calls. Well it turned out that Kay the Bypass Coordinator had been sick and out of the office for a month and she had just gotten around to my paper work.

she called me to let me know that she couldn't find the 6 months supervised diet with my doctor and that I needed that before she could turn my paper work into the insurance company. The thing is, is that I have been on a diet since I started seeing Dr. Woodmansee and so it was all documented through out my medical records. I told her that I would call the Dr. and see what he thought. He decided that he would just write them a letter explaining everything to them, but that took a good month; so here comes Christmas and I am still working on paper work.

I finally got the letter from the Dr. office on 27Th of December faxed it too Kay from my Chiropractors offices and she was going to fax it too the insurance company that day. Well I waited until the 2ND of January to call DMBA and see what the status was on my paperwork. They told me that they had received it on the 31st and that Louise and gone through it and that everything good really good they were just waiting for Chris to go through it and approve it.

So a couple of days went past, she had told me that I would know by the following Monday whether or not I was approved. Well Thursday came around and I still hadn't heard anything so I called her again; and low and behold with in the span of a week they had lost my paper work. This is where things get worse.

I call the surgeons office to see if Kay didn't mind faxing it back over to them and found out that Kay had quite. I was also told that they didn't have time to go through the Gastric Bypass patient files and that I was going to have to be patient with them that they would get to it when could. I call the insurance company back and explained everything to them; they called the Surgeons office and with in the hour they had my paper work in hand.

So after getting all of that taken care of it was donw hill from there, I knew that I had everything that I needed plus some. Well I called Louise on Thursday the 17Th to ask her a question and she informed me that they were missing my thyroid test results; so I called my Dr. office asked them about it and got it faxed over to them the following morning and that same after noon was approved.

It was a rough road to get here but now that I am here it is just as rough, if not a little harder. I am excited about my choice to have Gastric Bypass surgery and can't wait to start loosing major weight. I will try to post pictures on here so that all of you out of state can see the changes that take place.

Thank you all for your support.
Ronda

The End of a Long Journey

Last year about this time I went to the Dr. because of my knee; it was really bothering me. So they tested me for rheumatoid arthritis, but it came back that I don't have it which is really a very good thing; but I do have Osteoarthritis.

Well, while I was in there the nurse practitioner was the one that was treating me, and I noticed that he looked really good; he had lost a lot of weight. So I sad something about it; he told me that he had had a Gastric Bypass and it was the best thing that he had ever done for him self. We talked about my weight history and that I had been put on my first diet at the age of five by my family Doctor in Texas. He then told me that he was going to refere me up to Dr. Le grand Belnap for a consultation.

Well it took me a couple of months of pondering and prayer before I made the decision to call and make an appointment.

I went up for my consultation in March and it has been one doctors appointment after another. The one good thing about this process is that I know everything that is and isn't wrong with me.

It has been ten months since I started this process and I am finally done. The Surgeons office called me last Friday, the 18Th and told me I was approved for surgery. I made an appointment to have surgery on the 23rd and went up for my pre-op on the 19Th. Because I had gained 7 pounds Dr. Belnap told me that he wanted me too loose 40 pounds instead of 20.

It just helps make it easier for me to recover and for the surgeon to get in there and do the procedure. So I am now on a high protein low carb diet; it is very difficult but I hold on. It has been a week since I started and it has been really rough, I am very tired and worn out, I get really light headed and dizzy and nauseated and I have had a couple of emotional break downs, I have shed a few tears the past couple of days; but I am very proud of my self I have proved to my self that I am stronger than my temptations. I am hoping to loose the 40 ponds fast so I can have surgery as soon as possible.

I am ready to start this new journey, I guess in a way that I already have! I am working towards the greater goal! The surgery that is going to change my life; and I am glad that I have so many support friends to help cheer me on!

I love you all so much and appreciate all the love and support and prayers that all of you send my way!