Amanda's Gastric Bypass Story

Finally tired of life bypassing me…

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  • How do you get to 300 pounds?
By amandaelisabeth1 on December 19, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

What I hope to get back to – 185 pounds!

My face at 185 pounds. I actually have a face. And cheekbones. This is my motivation. It happened once…it can happen again.

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 19, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

December 23rd, 2013 is now my surgery date

I am sucking it up and have decided there are worse things than being in the hospital on Christmas Day. So, December 23rd it is at GW Hospital in DC. My Christmas present 🙂

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 19, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Sometimes things don’t go as planned…

And you want to drive down to DC and give your surgeon an earful. But you are too nice. So you sit at home angry and sad. Sigh. My surgeon overbooked patients for tomorrow, and canceled my surgery tomorrow. After all the planning we put in to this. Now, the […]

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 17, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

I know what thin looks like on me…I got there ONCE

One successful diet…down to 185 pounds…was there for a day! Then raced back up…to almost 300.

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 17, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Everyone is freaking out except me…

I am lucky to have a lot of people in my life who love me, and who care what happens to me. The problem is, none of them know what being morbidly obese is like, and I think that they all think I have lost my mind. I am lucky […]

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 16, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Testing protein shakes and powders before gastric bypass

So the nutritionist told me to start sampling protein shakes and powders now – because even though my tastes will change after surgery, sampling now will give me an idea of what I can tolerate later. Here is my review so far: Syntrax Nectars – I had high hopes for […]

By amandaelisabeth1 on December 15, 2013 • ( Leave a comment )

Gastric Bypass Surgery Set for December 19, 2013

I am having gastric bypass surgery (open Roux-en-y) at GW hospital (with Dr. Afram) on December 19, 2013. I am keeping my fingers crossed that nothing comes up in the next few days. I am anxious to get this over with so I can start getting used to this new […]

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