And now what???

Hello Everyone:

It's been a while since the last time I posted on this blog, to be hones I have been very busy with my business and trying to take care of my family.

My diet has been the same, I'm still in a kind of a plateau, but let me recap so you know what's going on.

I haven't lost the weight as it was supposed to, why I know that? well when I saw that I wasn't loosing weight, not as I did at the beginning I went to see Dr. Phersson, he sent me with the nutritionist, she gave me a bunch of advises and clues to get to eat whatever was very healthy, don't miss understand me, I was following the rules, at least I thought that, the problem was according to what she said, the way I picked the food and dressings and stuff.

She told me I need to check the labels, I didn't know how to read them, I used to see the calories, or carbohydrates and that was it, but she showed me that what is important to check is the calories, against the calories from fat.

When you pick a salad dressing for example, and the label says that it has 90 calories, the calories from fat can't exceed more than 20 or 25, because if it does, then it is not good for you.

But who told us that???? NO ONE! After I left her office, I was feeling so good, I thought, "Ok my problem is solved"

I stopped at the market and bought all kinds of new stuff and when I got home I toss in the trash every single item that I thought it was "BAD"

The time passed by and the things didn't change, and little by little I realized that I was hungry all the time, I ate and half an hour after or even 10 minutes after I was hungry again, and it wasn't anxiety, trust me I can recognize that, this was real hunger.

So I panic and call the doctor, he asked me to go and see him and I did, he ordered a third endoscopy, he said that my gastric bypass could have stretched open, that was so funny, now after all the problems and years of waiting to have something to help me to loose weight I was sitting at the doctor's office and he was telling me that my surgery was messed up, one in a 100, and that was me.

Anyway, another of the things that made me take the step of going to the doctor was that my diabetes was coming back, so I finally got the appointment with Dr. Pattel, the endoscopist and before I got in, he told me off the record, that he has seen cases where the stomach just gets attached by itself again to the pouch. That wasn't my case, but he has seen these cases, so, I went in and the results were, Yes, the conduct between my stomach (pouch) and the intestine stretched open.

Great! and now what? Well Dr. Pehrsson told me that he could have fix it if in the first year I lost 100 pounds or more instead of 70, and that fixing it will only give me an extra 20 pounds, so what is that, am I done?

On the other hand, he asked me to take care of the tumor first, I have the appointment in two weeks, and after that, he will think on what we can do with me and my gastric bypass.

So, I'm here loosing a few ounces a week, and kind of soooo disappointed, I will be posting as soon as I get news, but if you are in my case or planning to do the surgery, make sure your doctor tells you all the possibilities, because it is not fun to have surprises.

Thanks for stopping by

Christina

Recent Picture

Just a quick note to post my most recent picture, look at the door behind me, the old picture is from the morning of the surgery.

Love
Chris

Struggling with food

I have been having a lot of trouble with the things I eat. I 've been anxious and usually I cope anxiety with food, that is a big problem when you are talking about loosing weight. I went to see Dr. Pherrson and he sent me to the Nutritionist and she helped me with what should I eat and how to read the labels. She taught me a lot of tricks which I'm working on but I'm still struggling with the anxiety. I won't give up though, I will be a year out on April 15 and for my first birthday I'm planning to celebrate at least 100 pounds, I'm on 70, so I will need to work really hard.

Wish me luck!

Chris

Bad writer

I just realized than I'm so bad writing, I was in bed with my bad back pain when I posted the last one, that is why it is so bad. I'm still home, but not that bad and now I can write a little tiny bit.

I've been good, the scale is still not going down, but you know what my inches are, besides everyone is always telling me that I look smaller. I need to consider that I still have all that skin that the surgeons will need to fix, and that weights too, so I'm not worry about the scale, I just keep going and trying to walk and do what I have to do.

Last week I went to see Dr, Soldo and he said something that I liked and made me feel better. "You didn't gain the pounds in one day, so it will take some time to get rid of it" and he is right, I need to be patient.

The Holidays were really fun, we spent them with some friends, we made a New Year's Party here in my house and we stayed up till 4 a.m. on New Year, so this year we missed the Rose Parade on t.v. LOL (we were sleeping)

Now we are getting back in track, with the food and with work and school, it is hard though, we got used to pleasant, lazy days so easy.

I can't wait for the summer and to be able to get in the pool again, I really miss those days, and I really need to exercise, in the meantime I'm trying to walk, not much because it is so cold outside, but I will start walking with my friends, that way it will be easier.

Thank you all for reading my blog, I hope that if you are following it, it is because you are planning to have or had a surgery, and that my blog will be a good advise for you. Good Luck! and Happy New Year.

Chris

New Pictures

Hello:

Happy New Year to Every one. I was reading a little about my own process and I thought it would be a good time to post some pictures. I hope that you will see the difference.


Thanks for stopping by.

Chris

65 lbs less and a New Life

Wow! It's been a long time since the last time I wrote on this blog, I lost the login password and of course I couldn't access it, but I'm back.

I haven't loose much weight, I'm really taking it easy, I feel so healthy though, I have lost a total of 65 pounds, and my life is a new one.

Now I can run with my kid, I can walk again for hours on the mall without sitting down every two steps, or running out of breath, I can sleep through the night, without waking up because I couldn't breath.

Of course the relationship with my husband is a lot better, and one of the things that I like the most is that now I can sit on the floor. Yes! for some of you, this could be something simple, but for me it is a big deal, I can tie my shoes, put on my socks, etc.

I'm not in a hurry, my heart is doing really good, I feel it, my diabetes is gone, I'm eating a lot healthier and being a lot happier.


This is the new me, 65 pounds less and a long life ahead, but now it is a happy life.

This is a picture of me, I took it two weeks ago.

Thanks for Reading

The Plateau is Over--- Yippee!!!!!

Great!!

 I think at last I start loosing weight again, I was 267 lbs and now I'm 262lbs. Hopefully this will be the end of the problem.

I went yesterday to buy an outfit for a party that we have on Saturday and I was soooooo happy, because from  size 5X I went to 1X. I couldn't believe it, the lady at the big sizes clothes told me, "Yes Mrs. Kaplan, you should start believing it, you drop down almost 50 lbs, you are thinner now" 

And you know what guys, it felt so good, that I would do it again 100 times.

I push the plateau off of my life I think, I started again having cream of wheat for breakfast, and lots of water, oh and also started taking again religiously my water pills.

I think that it really was water retention, because even my face looks smaller.

Whatever it was I feel awesome, and renovated to keep going.

Wish me luck.

More soon 

Chris

p.s.  If you read my blog and are having or had a similar surgery, please let me know, I'm doing this for you guys, and the feed back is encouraging. 

My Food Diary

Hi everyone:

Oh my God. this is tuff. I don't think I'm doing anything bad, now that I have been writing how much food I'm eating I realized that I'm almost not eating.

The stomach size is so tiny tini that hardly any food fits inside. I'm not hungry at all, besides I'm drinking a lot of plain water..... Can you believe it?

Whoever knows me, knows that a few months ago, 3 to be exact I wouldn't have even try a sip of water, I couldn't even take it with lemon or something like that. The only way that I would drink it was as horchata (lots of sugar though) and now I'm drinking at least 3 bottles of water a day plus all the sugar free popsicles, OMG, I'm doing good hidratating my skin.

All the bad dryness that I used to have all over my body is gone, my legs are clear again. I'm sooo happy. Some of it is that my diabetes is all gone for good I hope, I don't check my sugar level every day, but once in a while that I do it, is always on a 100 or less, not more than 110.

I'm so happy. Besides the inches are going down, and down, and down. No the scale though, but I'll be patient, it will be sooner or later.

Thanks for reading my blog, if you want to see pictures or the links that I have posted you will need to click on the blog link click here, because the automated e-mail won't let you get into the blog.

See you soon.

Christina

My Three Month Appointment

Hello Everyone:

I went to Dr. Pehrrson for my 3 months appointment I was very concerned because I had just lost 7 pounds in a month.

Dr. Pehrrson said that I need to check closely what I am eating, I need to do a food dairy and fax it to the nutritionist to find out what is going out.

He also said that some times the body needs some time to settle down but at the same time I have been loosing some inches (a lot) so I'm less worried.

I posted these two pictures that we took on Tuesday, it's me with Ryan my 6 year old son. and one with my very best friend Nancy.

I feel a lot better as you can see on my face.

I'm starting to use skirts and hills, not very high because I'm tall and I don't need them, but my mood is getting better every day so I feel more like getting a little more girly than before.

I also need to buy some more clothes soon, because even the new ones are getting too big.


Thank you for reading

See you soon.


Christina

My Mom is Coming !!!!

Hello:

Yepeeeee!!!!! I'm so happy because finally the Doctor authorized my Mom to go on trips, and of course she picked come to visit her princesses. (Yeah right, she is coming to see her grandchildren)

Anyway I don't care what she is coming for; The time that she will spend with me in my house I will enjoy her very much because I really, really missed her.

The good thing is that now I can walk a lot more (I don't get tired as much) and we are going to be able to go shopping and stuff (yeah right again, just remember the gasoline prices)

I will post some pictures of her visit, so you can see how beautifull we are and how good all those illnesses did to us. hahahaha.

This picture of her is from last year. I can't believe that it is almost a year without seeing her.

Keep reading and I will keep writing. See you soon.

Christina

Hello

Ryan took this picture earlier today, let's see what do you think,

Love

Chris

Hello Everyone

Sorry I have been away for a while. It's a busy month for me because it is my youngest son's birthday, he is 6 years old and you know how it is to organize birthday parties. Besides I have been very busy with my scrapbook business and classes thank God.

I had my endoscopy and everything was fine, I think my nausea were because I ate some shrimps and maybe one of them wasn't so good.

Anyway it was worth to check everything out.

Thanks for your thoughts and prayers.

I'm not doing very good with my weight loss, I'm having a hard time I don't know why, but not loosing almost anything. I don't want to be discourage, I will keep trying and doing what I have to do, next week I will see Dr. Pehrrson and he will tell me what to do.

I will post more as soon as I know.

Love you all

Chris

New Clothes

6/13/08

271.2 lbs and new clothes 4 sizes smaller the pants and 2 sizes smaller the shirt

Yuck!!! Wrong clothes Chris, you look bigger with the new ones, go back to your old huge clothes. LOL

Complications

Oh no!!!! I think I'm starting with complications. I called my doctor because I had a lot of nausea and I wasn't dumping. He asked me to go and see him. He sent me for a blood test, everything was normal, so he sent me to another upper endoscopy.

As I understood the passage between my esophagus and my pouch is too tight and the solid food can't go through, that is why I'm having nausea, so they need to get in and open it with the endoscope.

I'm not vomiting or anything so I think that the food does go through, but hardly. so they programed it for Wednesday 18th I'm not scared or anything, but I was feeling so good.

Chris

I'm back in track !!!!!

Hello Everyone:

Finally, I'm back on the loosers side, from 282 I went to 271.2 lbs, for a total since the surgery of 42.8 lbs, that is a lot. I don't know how did it happened but it did. I was on the same weight for more than a week and I was really sad, but now I'm back and happy.

Chris

I Dumped and very bad

Hello everyone:

Today was my first day on solid food. I had a little bit of grounded beef and I was just starting to eat, and I started with a bad pain in my stomach, I thought I was having a heart attack, and trust me, I know how that feels.

I was ready to call 911, I thought it was my heart, but I drank a sip of water and then I had to run to the bathroom to through up, and I started to feel better.

I realized that I was dumping, I never did so bad before. I learned my lesson, no more beef.

Happy Memorial Day to all

Chris

My Grandparents

Hello:

This is a very special blog, it is dedicated to my Grandparents, specially to my Grandma because she fighted against my weight for a long time. I remember her saying "Chris I'm going to die and you will never let me see you thin" And she did, now I feel bad, but I know that wherever she is, she will be happy for me.

Grandma, this is for you, enjoy it as much as I am.

I love you guys and I miss you .

Chris

It was nothing

Hello:

I went to the doctor and he said it is ok, the wound is not draining pus anymore, he gave me antibiotic and just took off the scab, cleaned it and put a bandate on.

We talked about the tumor he founded on one of my ovaries and he said that it looks like it is not malign but we need to check it out.

He also said that we will need to wait a little more until I loose some more weight and then he can remove it laparoscopicly.

Let's see what happens. He also was happy for all the weight I've lost, it looks that I'm loosing it very fast. It made me feel so happy.

Chris

Wow! 3.8 lbs.

Even without ending my period the scale showed 3.8 lbs less. Yipeeeee!!!!!!! I can't wait to finish my period to see how much I lost.

Chris