LynRey70

Omg ladies you make me want to cry and I totaly agree with you guys that our journey is private and on a need to know basis! Im not podting my surgery on facebook because honesty the people that matter are in my personal circle already and they know. Everyone else will feel the need to scrutinize my every move and I dont need to be put on display... unlike here on this site Im excited and happy to share some of my personal story with total strangers because even though the details vary we all have the same common struggle and have suffered the cruelty of the world and can relate to one another on a very personal level....thanks for sharing!

Thank you so much! Awe yes its very touching your story and This past year has been a series of new beginings and transformation! Ive had trials and triumphs! I have overcome small and huge hurdels in my life. One of the biggest things and most difficult things for me was making the decision to go back to school well actually in 2014 it started. I enrolled at Heald College and I have to say I loved it! I was studing Medical Office Administration and early on I realized how important the role of medical office personell is. They are the first impression a patient gets about how important health is and so how could I encourage or be a role model for anyone coming into my office when I myself was not the picture of health. So I started working on myself making changes in my diet. I was 267 lbs. and at only 5'1" you can imagine how round i looked. Thats when I decidedA change is do!! The process of getting cleared should of only took me a couple months but I had to keep puting it off cause of school. I was going to finish school this October so my surgery was going to be put off till then. But as luck would have it my school closed unexpectedly and I got very depressd so I ran to food for like always and began putting to pounds again but I had learned alot about myself through school and knew the cycle so before I got to caught up in my emotions I called my surgeon and it just snowballed from there quickly. Now tomorrow I will be rebirthed and I cant containe my excitement!!!! Im so happy to no longer just exsist in the world Im going to live life to the fullest thank you Lord Jesus for the blessings and New Beginings for all on this site! Thank you and all the best for you also!!!????

Thank you Brigitteboyce17 awe yes the protective layers we have knowingly or unknowingly placed around us to protect us and keep the bad evil away! It took me nearly 45 years to even realize that I was an emotional eater. Actually an Occasional eater haha....and every occasion that came about I ate but what I discovered and mean by emotional eater is that when I was happy and feeling good I ate stuff that was oooey gooey cheesey creamy yumm yumms but when I was sad mad angry man the salty savory tart stuff is what I craved...i feel that now that I have realized that about myself I can better gage myself along with the new tool this surgery is affording us that finally I can be me free of the layers ....yes best of luck to you!

Preop appt right now! Just weighed in at 219 lbs!!! Clear liquids from now on ....Freaking out Wed cant come soon enough!

Well it depends on your Surgeon. Mine had me do a 14 day liquid protien diet with the last three days been all clear liquids no shakes or pudding or oatmeal! and nothing after midnight the night of the before my surgery! Hope this helps but you should check with your Dr.

Awesome!! Mine is Wed! Prayers to you for a speedy recovery????????

Ok I have been on a roller coaster ride of emotions. Im excited and anxious and then scared and then Happy! I have not been super loyal to my pre op liquid diet...but I have been good about drinking plenty of liquids....My problem is I get anxiety in the pit of my gut and just want to jump out of my skin when I think my surgeon will not do my surgery cause I have cheated and I had stopped smoking in the begining of my process but some super stressfull stuff happend with my school and I started to smoke again back in April and tapered off again mid May but I dont think its been enough time......Oh man I hope ill be cleared after my preop appt. this Monday!!! Wish me luck!????????

So my boyfriend took me shopping for new slippers a cute terry cloth robe and toiletries for my hospital stay! I just about jumped out of my skin on the ride home cause its about to get really real! Omg we also went shopping for my liquid vitamins and chews for afterwards.... June 10Th here I come......wanna know what song keeps playing in my head that song from Aladdin A whole world.....IM BEING EMOTIONAL RIGHT?????????????

@@laguerr13 hellz yeah we're gonna bring sexy back! Wow we got the same rebirth date!! Hope you are doing well with all your preop stuff! Just a few more days to go➡➡➡⬆ Im so l????king forward to the new me!????

Hello everyone.Im so excited to have found this online community,this site seems pretty welcoming and easy to navigate. Well my name is Lynda Reyna, I am a 45 yr. old widowed mother of two teen daughters. Im from central California. Like my title reads I'm born on New Years Day,but this year I will celebrate June 10th @ 2:00pm my Rebirthday in just a few days! I call it my that because I have always felt like I was born to be a fat girl! My whole life I have been know as la gordis,(a cute nick name my dad gave me very early on)litterally means little chubby in Spanish. I have worn every lable you can call a "fat" person over the past 45 yrs. I have experienced short victories over the battle against obesity. One of those victory periods is when I met my awesome husband in 1988 I was fresh out of high school and had obsessivly dieted and excersied down to a slim 9/10 pant size I was always afraid of the scale so to me success was based on the inside lable on the clothes I wore. Once I had become comfortable with him I slowly began to pack on the dreaded pounds. I did not know that I was an emotional eater. Still he loved me and six years later we had our first baby girl. Loved being pregnant and motherhood was what I was born to do. Happiness was closely related to my eating problems. I loved to cook and am pretty darn good at it the more people liked my food the more I made and ate. I had my husbands entire work crew at my home before work just to fuel up on my breakfast burritos. In 1999 my beloved husband died of a massive heart attack at 34yrs old I was 29. I had not realized still how much food had been my friend,in good times and in bad times. Sweets in the good times or really yummy gooey cheesy buttery saucey foods all related to happiness. Savorey,salty,pickled tart foods in the bad times. Building layers from my emotions was what I did best. My highest weight has been 267lbs. but Im only 5'1". Shortly after my husband passed away I had a vision of my self how I would look one day. I didnt know how It was going to happen but I knew it was me I saw and I would be alone for years but then I emerge near or around 45 yrs of age slim happy and with a rockin hot boyfriend! Why 45? Im not sure but I seen a timeline of sorts and how I could decipher the passing of time is my how old my girls would be, they were babies then and its been 16 yrs so my girls are grown my oldest will be 20 this year and my baby will turn 18. So It my time for me to be reborn into the mature sexy confident slender woman I am ment to become. My journey has been a long treacherous road of trials and triumphs, Up and downs, sadness,lonliness depression,addiction adversity and all that including family predisposition and cultural beliefs and customs were reason I was building layers of protection from the harshness of life, dissapointments, and cold hard reality that I did not love myself enough to disipline myself through the years. Durring this past year and a half, I made the decison that It was my time for me and I had to restructure, reinvent, and be reborn into a new me a new exsitence. A healthier, slender more confident woman I was meant to be. Over two yrs ago I renewed my faith in God, Overcame addictions, restructured my life went back to school, (tragic I was one of thousands of students displaced by Corinthians Inc. owners of Heald College where I was two quarters from being done! I also started my medical work clearences for the Gastric Sleeve surgery. It has taken me way longer to get through it because of my school schedule I was putting it off for another six months but since my school closed in April I cant believe my date is almost here. Right now Im on day four of my pre op diet and I have already cheated twice cause of Graduation partied I attended..but today is a new day and I hope to stay on track for the remainder of my preop until the 10th of June!!!

Thank you LadyK44...It sure is time for me. Whoop Whoop and as far as Christmas goes yes Im excited plus New Years is my birthday so I cant wait to see what sleek little bitrthday fit I'll fit into! ????????

@ theotherfatgirl....it is normal to feel like we do but honestly everybodys experience is unique and their own Journey!!! Like the two of us will be in surgery the same day but who knows what each other will feel like in the end. All I know is Im glad that we can share these emotions that others cant completely grasp! You will do fine!! ????????????????

Thank you for your encouraging words! I think we will both be fine! And your family wont mind you spending a little cash on yourself now because the pay off is you have decided to live the life you were born to live happy healthy and a new you! Best of luck to you ....thanks for sharing Im glad Im not the only one who is up and down with my emotions!!!

How did your surgery go?? Im excited to hear about it!

That was very well stated Its ok to first learn the new you and be comfortable with how we look and feel. For most of us being heavy was the norm and this is new and so diffrent! I see it like having a new born you have to slowly introduce them to new experiences a little at a time!

Hello everybody! Im on day five of my liquid diet. I started out doing not so good and then I did really good for like two days but today has been the most challenging day! Im so hungry! Whats difficult is making food for my kids and boyfriend and knowing I cant eat what I just made. My current weight is 235.5, Im worried that Im not going to lose enough weight before my surgery date!

Thank you so much for your feed back. Im glad Im not the only one who cheats on my preop diet... Today Ive been better and a little more focused! Its day six and I can hardly containe my excitement....Best of luck to you....???? for a successful surgery and speedy recovery! Please let us know how your doing????

Dr Nguyen is mine too! wow that is so cool

Im from Central Cali Having my surgery June 10 @ GoodSam!

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yeah June 10 is my surgery date also!!! Congrats and best of luck to you!

Awesome my surgery is June 10th so excited for you and me and everyone getting it done soon!!! Good luck to you !

????omg exciting!!!????prayers your way for a successful surgery and speedy recovery! Please let us know how it goes for you!!!

Don't stress yourself over the psyc evaluation. They just want to make sure that you know what you are getting into and that its not an impulsive move on your behalf. My Psychologist ask me do I know who the president is,or who the vice president is. He then told me three words= apple table and New York then he asked me to repeat them five minutes later....I dont know why he did that I think it was to test weather I can remember instructions. Dont worry you will be ok.

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