8 week update & Pics

[CrissyRing77 232]

I had my 8 week appt yesterday(even tho tmw is 8 weeks)...I got released to eat "real food" yahoooo! I had a mini salad and loved every bite! My doctor was very happy with my results thus far, down 37lbs from preop diet...over 1/3 of my excess body weight(100 lbs) we discussed my goal and his goal for me, which were surprisingly different, I am 5' even and he said he thinks I should be aiming for 130. I had set my goal in my mind to 110(started at 211) this puts me smack dab in the middle of normal BMI & what I weighed when I was super physically active and in shape. He thinks I will have quite a bit of excess skin due to a difficult pregnancy I had that stretched my body into the oddest shape, phooey! So he says 130 and a Tummy Tuck and I should end up at 115...I'm ok with that and see his point! At this point I'm just so pleased people are noticing my weight loss! My pants are big but due to being so disproportionate the waists are still fitting(tho surely loose). I'm excited to go down in size!! Heck at this point I'm in my old maternity clothes, which brings me to another part of my update I haven't talked much about on here...

The week before Christmas I had a bit of a scare, I was 4 weeks out and woke up to terrible pain and wringing feeling in my stomach, like twisting and wrenching...saw my surgeon, he thought gastritis and possible start if an ulcer, got meds and slowly things calmed down...the day before Xmas I started having some pain on my left side next to my stomach, it got severe on Xmas day...I barely made it through presents then went to bed and slept allllll day...the next day I got a fever so the on call sent me to the ER with two thoughts, possible leak and dehydration...CT showed no leak thankfully but my spleen was gigantic...they were so rude and gave no explanation nor care to further check why and sent me home...the next day my surgeon called very alarmed, they were thinking I may have mono which caused my spleen to expand, so off I went for that test and another Upper GI just to be extra sure no leak....thankfully negative on the leak but sadly mono was negative, that would've been a nice clean easy to deal with diagnosis. So I was put on exercise precautions and asked to be very careful around my children or anyone bumping my side bc it was that big! Both my PCP & my Surgeon decided to take a wait & see approach where my pain was slowly subsiding. So followed up with my PCP last week and he thinks I did catch some sort of virus and it just attacked my spleen...we will do another ultrasound at the end of January and hope to see it shrinking...my surgeon was happy with that yesterday and I see him in one month! So long sorry short I have a gigantic spleen, it was crushing my little sleeve, making it very painful(the wringing and reflux symptoms before Xmas)It is still enlarged but a couple weeks ago I was able to start eating agin and now I feel normal! Phewwwwww!

If you caught all that congrats! Lol! I have some preop pics on my laptop but I have one from my sister in laws wedding which was my last straw, I was 211 here, same as I was at my preop diet appt & the other is this weekend at my sons 3rd birthday party, where I got two wonderful compliments!

[CrissyRing77 232]

How do I delete I thought I posted in a general area didn't realize it was general questions...I found a different place to post.

[Sabredy12 55]

U look brilliant, big difference x

[CrissyRing77 232]

Thanks so much! It's hard to see the difference in yourself! Photos help for sure!