Fat's Not Easy: Medical Alert

I'm a 30-something year old wife and mother of three wonderful boys. After many years of emotional & mental issues, medication issues and (obviously) food issues, I have ended up overweight and tired all the time. Knowing my illnesses will not get better if I don't become healthier I had decided to start the long journey to Weight Loss Surgery (WLS) to better myself. I want to be the fun, healthy mom... and dare I say it?... the 'hot mom' & wife. Here's my journey before and after my gastric bypass surgery, along with some recipes.

Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Medical Alert

Again... I've been doing research... and this time I found that it is a good idea for Gastric Bypass patients to have a medical alert bracelet. It's at our own discretion, of course, but I read the reasons and such in many articles and it makes sense. On the off chance that something should happen to me after the surgery, I want to make sure I'm covered if I'm unable to speak. Here's some articles I've read to help me come to my decision to order a medical alert bracelet....

http://www.mygastricbypassstory.com/2012/03/29/gastric-bypass-medical-alert-id-bracelets/

http://blog.laurenshope.com/gastricbypass

The 2nd link is from Lauren's Hope, which is the website where I ordered my M.A. Tag from. They have some beautiful bracelets that you can mix & match with your tag, but I decided to save some money and just order the tag and make the bracelets myself, for now. Here's what I got...

I ended up only spending about $10 on the supplies to make 5 bracelets... here are 4 of them. I've read a lot of blogs about gastric bypass and realize that the doctors are not in the habit of suggesting that their patients get a MA Tag. I don't know why, and maybe they don't see it necessary, but from the things I've read, I'm in the mind frame of 'better be safe than sorry'. So, agree or disagree, I'm going to be wearing my pretty bracelets after my surgery, because you never know what could happen!!

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Weekly Progression

Surgery May 11

Wk 1 - 5/19 - told not to weigh

Wk 2 - 5/26 - 20 lb loss

Wk 3 - 6/2 - 25 lb loss

Wk 4 - 6/9 - 29 lb loss

Wk 5 - 6/16 - 35 lb loss

Wk 6 - 6/23 - 37 lb loss

Wk 7 - 6/30 - 38 lb loss

Wk 8 - 7/7 - 40 lb loss

Wk 9 - 7/14 - 40 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 10 - 7/21 - 45 lb loss

Wk 11 - 7/28 - 53 lb loss

Wk 12 - 8/4 - 54 lb loss

Wk 13 - 8/11 - 57 lb loss

Wk 14 - 8/18 - 57 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 15 - 8/25 - 59 lb loss

Wk 16 - 9/1 - 64 lb loss

Wk 17 - 9/8 - 68 lb loss

Wk 18 - 9/15 - 71 lb loss

Wk 19 - 9/22 - 71 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 20 - 9/29 - 75 lb loss

Wk 21 - 10/6 - 75 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 22 - 10/13 - 77 lb loss

Wk 23 - 10/20 - 77 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 24 - 10/27 - 82 lb loss

Wk 25 - 11/3 - 85 lb loss

Wk 26 - 11/10 - 87 lb loss

Wk 27 - 11/17 - 88 lb loss

Wk 28 - 11/24 - 91 lb loss

Wk 29 - 12/01 - 91 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 30 - 12/08 - 93 lb loss

Wk 31 - 12/15 - 95 lb loss

Wk 32 - 12/22 - 96 lb loss

Wk 33 - 12/29 - 97 lb loss

Wk 34 - 01/05 - 98 lb loss (slow)

Wk 35 - 01/11 - 98 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 36 - 01/19 - 100 lb loss!!!!!!!

Wk 37 - 01/25 - 105 lb loss

Wk 38 - 02/01 - 105 lb loss

Wk 39 - 02/08 - 105 lb loss

Wk 40 - 02/15 - 105 lb loss

Wk 41 - 02/22 - 108 lb loss

Wk 42 - 02/29 - 109 lb loss

Wk 43 - 03/07 - 109 lb loss (stalled)

Wk 44 - 03/14 - 109 lb loss (Ugh!)

Wk 45 - 03/21 - 110 lb loss

Wk 46 - 03/28 - 113 lb loss

Wk 47 - 04/04 - 117 lb loss

Wk 48 - 04/11 - 119 lb loss

(Rounded to nearest lb)