As the cookie crumbles...

So welcome to my blog. I'm going to try and update this daily to talk about my life and how weightloss surgery has affected it. The good and the bad. :)

A little history about me. I'm a 23 year old girl who has struggled with weight loss my entire life. I've tried countless things...Adipex pills, crash dieting, Weight Watchers, exercising, plain ole starvation. Nothing worked for me until I got my Lapband. I was offically banded March 11th 2011. I wish I had started this blog back then so I could have recorded my emotional ups and downs, but I suppose better now then never!

As a child I was always overweight. The weight really started adding up when I was in highschool and the first years of college. Before I knew it I was in the 300s. It was just the combination of bad food choices, too large of portions and the stress of nursing school. However this year I made a deal with myself that I would do whatever it took to get this weight off so I could be a newer healthy person.

So in a short summary here is what has happened since I started this journey to the current.

There is a two week pre-operation diet that most Bandsters have to go through, also known as "Two Weeks of Hell" in which you're only allowed to have sugar free jellow, popsicles, chicken broth, and a cup of cottage cheese. Yummy. During those two weeks I lost 28 pounds (I set a record in my doctors office for the most weight lost by a female in the pre-op diet phase). It was really hard but I just tried to concentrate on other things, especially my upcoming surgery date. The reasoning behind the two weeks of fluids is so the liver will strink in size and therefore be easier to move around during the surgery. This weightloss took me from 327 down to 299.



Morning before my surgery, at 327.





Then finally the morning of March 11th happened.  I was REALLY scared...actually petrified of what would happen but I went through with it and the recovery wasn't bad at all. I was able to walk and didn't have much soreness at all. The only problem I had was the air that was trapped in my upper chest. It took about 24 hours before that went away.

The next month (April) was really slow. I was only able to drink fluids for a week, then able to eat pureed and mushy foods for another week and then finally able to move towards solids. I didn't loose anything that month. Which is normal.

 



Around 288.



In the beginning of May I dropped 11 pounds, taking me to 288 pounds. It really slowed after that, I couldn't figure out what I was doing. I was only eating 1200 calories a day and working out 6 days a week, pure cardio. This stall continued on into the next few weeks where I only lost 3 more pounds and it was very heart breaking. The scale just simply would not move.





Around 270.

Finally in June I had a break through. I dropped 15 pounds in a few weeks. From all of my research it had to have been water weight my body was holding onto because it needed to repair the muscle I was building. During this month, July. I've decided to work out 6 days a week doing 30 minutes of cardio on either the elliptical or treadmill. I've also increased my calories from 1200 to 1400 and it seems to be working. I'm hoping for at least a 8 pound weightloss from my last doctors visit.

And now we're current!

-Cookie