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Diet and Exercise Assistant version 8 by Keyoe

Product Overview:

· Existing Customer Discount - Order at www.keyoe.com and use the discount code Diet4Life to receive a 30% discount on the new version 8.

· Personal Information - Input your personal information (height, weight, age, gender), and the software automatically calculates the calories you burn during the day. Diet & Exercise Assistant will graph your current weight on a daily, weekly or monthly basis. You can compare your current weight to what is considered normal for your age, gender and height

· Establish a Weight Loss Program - Establish a weight loss program by selecting a diet plan and setting weight loss goals. Input your desired weight and select a target date. Diet & Exercise Assistant will automatically calculate your daily food budget.

· Large Food Database - Use the large food database of almost 10,000 food items containing all the nutrient information to track your diet easily. The food database is configurable and you can add, delete, edit any group, category or food item. The nutritional information label on the back of most products contains all of the information you need to add a food item to the food database.

· Popular Restaurants - The food database has food listings for hundreds of popular restaurants and fast food chains.

· Large Exercise Database - Track your exercise by selecting an activity from a large exercise database. Input the minutes spent exercising, and Diet & Exercise Assistant will automatically calculate the calories you burned through exercise.

· Logbook - Use the Logbook to input your exercise and everything you consume each day. To speed up daily food logging you can create Recipes from a list of food items. Use the new Favorites folder at the top of the food database for all of your common food items. Find food items easily with the new search features. The food database is structured for maximum look-up performance and ease-of-use.

· Charts and Graphs - Use 15 different charts and graphs to monitor your diet program. Diet & Exercise Assistant will color daily values in red when you have exceeded your diet plan targets.

· Summary Tables - Use the Summary and Nutrient tables to quickly summarize the calories and nutrients you have consumed and compare the totals to your diet plan targets.

· Body Measurements & Blood Pressure - Input body measurements and watch your body shape improve as you reach your weight loss goals. Estimate your body fat percentage from body measurements. Input and track your blood pressure with charts and graphs.

· Health Tools - Diet & Exercise Assistant calculates your body mass index, waist-to-hip ratio, optimal weight, body fat, etc. Test your knowledge of healthy eating by taking one of several quizzes.

· Daily Journal - Use the Daily Journal to input notes while on your diet.

· Ease of Use - Diet & Exercise Assistant easy to use. Quick help is available on the handheld for all dieting concepts and nutritional calculations. With over one million downloads Diet & Exercise Assistant is easily the most popular healthcare product for your mobile device and desktop computer.

· Optional Desktop Companion - Add the optional desktop companion and synchronize data to your desktop computer. The desktop companion will automatically backup up your data. The desktop companion has all of the features of the mobile device product and a whole lot more. The desktop companion is sold separately.

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A really cool website with lots of weight loss tools!

This site has several weigh loss calculators on it as well as the story of a man, Bruce Underwood, who had RNY gastric bypass surgery. It is really worth a view;
http://www.thinnerself.com/main_page.html
Click here for a really cool weight loss tool! Be sure to Click on detailed report after you have filled in all of your information!

2 months 55 pounds gone and some weird feelings

I was surprised when my primary care MD asked me about how I would feel about going on antidepressants at my DAUGHTERS 10 month appointment a few weeks ago. My Dr. is lovely and I am able to be honest with her so I said, "Antidepressants"? "I have just had the surgery that I have been trying to get for over 6 years and have lost over 50 pounds. Aren't I suppose to be REALLY happy right now? What is wrong with me?" she told me that any surgery is stressful and this surgery is especially stressful because you are having to change your whole life and you are loosing a friend...food. She also said that estrogen is stored in the fat and is released by the truck loads when you loose this much weight so quickly. I am still breastfeeding (but my milk supply is almost gone) so I decided against the antidepressants for another month or so till my daughter is a year then I plan to stop breastfeeding and if I still feel down..bring on the antidepressants.
It is all very confusing even with the explanation. I guess I built this whole experience up in my mind so much (even though I told myself that I wasn't)that it is sort of anticlimactic now that it is actually happening. I get compliments everyday, from my coworkers, store clerks, friends, neighbors, and my husband but I guess some how I thought it would "feel" different. Maybe having all of those strictures and vomiting so much from them in the beginning kind of soured this experience for me a little. I still worry that the stricture fairy will visit me again.
I still have a way to go even though Dr. Snyder says I will be at goal in 9 months. Hearing that actually made me feel very disconcerted. I replied, "Wow, really" but inside I had this strange feeling of pressure. I am afraid that I won't make it in 9 months and then I will feel like a failure. Silly I know but that is still what looms in my mind. I even went so far as to average it out and at 10 pounds a month..I will be at goal in the 9 month time frame. Even plans like Jenny Craig and Nutrisystem promise 2-3 pounds a week in weight loss and I am consuming much less than I ever did on either of those programs. I have been able to see the changes in myself, especially in my legs and face. Ironically the first place I noticed the weight loss was my feet. Yep, my shoes are super loose these days. Funny a benefit I didn't expect from this surgery!
My husband says it will get easier when he has the surgery. He has completed all but one of his preop required appointments. He is even has ended up with a cpap out of all of this. I had been telling him that he needed one for years. I do agree that it is hard to eat 2-4ounces when he is eating large portions. It is even harder when he has something that I can't eat at all. Like pizza, something we use to enjoy at least once a week. I will admit that I tried to eat just the meat toppings off a slice and was SSSSOOOO SICK! I am never going to look at ham the same way again. Another hard part has been that his BMI was almost too low to qualify so we have been trying to "fatten him up" for the last few weeks. That means he is eating ice cream and chips, etc that I can no longer have. I am hoping that he will get approved as easily with this insurance as I did. He is far sicker than I was but his BMI is much lower too. I also hope that his recovery goes much better than mine did but then he won't be taking care of and lifting a 20 pound baby all day like I was 4 days post op.
I feel guilty even posting this because it sounds like I am complaining. I don't mean for it to sound that way. I just wish I had been more prepared emotionally for all of this. It is like when I was pregnant and women would tell me, "Your whole life is about to change", I would stand and smile and think that I knew what they meant but only after Lilith was born did I REALLY understand. I think this surgery is like that. I read every book I could get my hands on and although some have gone into the emotional changes after surgery..I didn't really get it till now. I see lots of posts on www.obesityhelp.com that say similar things to what I am experiencing and that makes me feel better. It makes me realize that I am not the only one this is happening to.

2 weeks post op

I have lost almost 30 pounds in a little over 2 weeks. Everyone at work comments that they can see it. That is nice. It is getting easier to take care of Lilith during the day but if I had this to do over again, I certainly wouldn't try to take care of a crawling, cruising 20 pound infant on my 4Th day post op. I am still breastfeeding but it has been challenging. I pumped every 3 hours while in the hospital (and awake). I even fell asleep while pumping a couple of times and woke up all wet. It was interesting considering every time I would start to pump, in would walk the male RN, male aide, male doc, or male dietary person. Seriously. I am still forcing myself to take fluids to keep hydrated and to keep my milk up. I also started Reglan (an anti emetic that increases milk production). I know the nutrition content of my milk is probably next to nothing but I figure it is okay since Lilith is eating 3 meals a day and a yogurt snack. She also gets 2-3 bottles of 6-8oz a day of formula. I am still taking mostly clear liquids with some full liquids, mostly protein shakes, and cream based soups. I am tired a lot but that is because I am basically getting 500 calories a day on most days. I went to the 3 week post op class (I am really 2 weeks post op but I was in the area and wanted to save myself a drive), and was amazed that some of the lap banders were already able to eat protein bars and were saying they were hungry! I knew the lap band wasn't for me. I would be so upset right now if I was hungry after having major surgery for weight loss! I am still struggling with the visual cues from what TV I do watch (I hate some of those commercials, they are evil), Lost, and Medium. When the food is in front of me (like when my husband eats dinner), it doesn't really bother me, (especially if I have a protein shake while he eats). I am having a hard time imagining that I will be able to eat even soft foods by next week like they say you will in the 3 week post op class. I had a bad experience with some clam chowder the other night and it wasn't even that thick. I will say one very bad thing that I have noticed about this surgery, when you eat too fast (like I did with the chowder), you get a horrible tightness in your chest along with some nasty shortness of breath and pain. It feels like what patients that have had heart attacks describe. But on a good note/ bad note, once I made myself vomit (after 2 hours of pain)it went away. I also didn't have to vomit much at all since my pouch is so small, it almost was like spitting up. Too graphic for some of you but true. I also want to stress that you should continue to take your stool softeners when you get home from the hospital, I found this out the hard way, no pun intended. Another rny patient was talking about her "difficulties" in this area at the 3 week class.
Will's birthday was Sunday and we went to see, "Blades of Glory". It was Lilith's first movie experience. It was fun. She really seemed in awe till the last 30 minutes or so when she started to get tired but couldn't sleep because of all of the laughing. She really seemed to enjoy the preview of Shrek 3. We will have to take her to see it when it comes out. I walked around with her by the exit isle and she was fine with that and I still got to see the end of the movie. I ordered Will a chocolate cake with cream filling (a small cake). He is still eating on it. I did get to have some of his sugar free ice cream (2 spoonfuls and I was stuffed). I didn't even mind making dinner for him. This not being hungry thing can be really cool sometimes but you do have to watch mental hunger. I had a dream that Will was making pans and pans of Lasagna and wouldn't let me have any. Here is the funny part, I don't really like lasagna! I am walking with Lilith almost everyday, weather permitting, to a park and back. She really like the swings and gets excited when I bring out the stroller. I can't wait till we can swim again. She use to get that excited when we would start to get the swim gear out. My friend Carla's wedding is June 29Th and I was hoping to be down 40 pounds or so, but if I keep loosing at this rate, I will be down a lot more than that! Yeah! I am so happy that I finally got to have this surgery!

I have lost a Lilith

I had my 1 week post op appointment today. I was weighed first and I
have lost my daughters total weight! Can you believe it? In one week! Then
after you are all excited and happy, they tell you it is time to pull
your drain. It didn't really hurt exactly but I decided to watch. I was
sitting in the chair and the PA asked me to take a deep breath in and
exhale it slowly. He cut the two stitches anchoring it in place then
folded a 4x4 and placed it to the left side of the incision and asked
me to apply some pressure and hold it there, okay that hurt a little.
Then he prompted me to take that breath, I did and he began to pull on
the drain very fast, it kept coming, and coming and coming, then the
clear plastic tubing became large white waffle tubing, and it too kept
coming and coming, (I am surprised that my eyes didn't fall out of my
head at this point as they were so large with disbelief), and just when
I started to feel like I might vomit from the shear site of so much
tubing coming from my abdomen, it stopped. He announced that we were
done and put the 4x4 on it and taped it down. I asked why I wasn't
getting stitches or steristrips or something, and he said that as long
as I kept it clean and dry, (changing the 4x4 everyday), it would be
fine. We then talked about my diet for week 2.
Sample menu for one week post op...
7am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
8am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
9am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
popsicle 2oz
10am
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
broth 2oz
NAP
noon
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
crystal light 2oz
1pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
2pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
NAP
4pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
broth 2oz
5pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
decaf tea 2oz
6pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 2oz
7pm
water 4oz
protein shake 2oz
crystal light 2oz
broth 2oz
This was take from my gastric bypass notebook that all of Dr. Snyders patients receive in the pre op nutrition class. I have to admit that I was very bad and mostly drank just water my first week. I got in my 60 grams of protein in the form of ISOPURE and NAKED protein shakes that (as you can see from the chart above) take hours to drink.
Week 2
7am
yogurt 1oz
water 3oz
decaf tea 2oz
protein shake 2oz
8am
water 5oz
sugar free jello 2oz
egg beaters 1oz
9am
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
10am
water 4oz
broth 2oz
isopure 1oz
NAP
1pm
water 4oz
refried fat free beans 1oz
sugar free jello 2oz
2pm
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
isopure 1oz
3pm
sugar free popsicle 2oz
water 4oz
cottage cheese fat free 1oz
protein shake 2oz
4pm
water 4oz
broth 2oz
sugar free pudding 1oz
5pm
water 4oz
fat free refried beans 1oz
diluted apple juice 2oz
6pm
water 5oz
protein shake 2oz
sugar free jello 1oz
7pm
sugar free yogurt 2oz
water 4oz
sugar free popsicle 2oz
protein shake 2oz

WEEK 3-4-5
7am
Isopure 6oz
8am
water 8oz
scrambled egg (med)
9am
water 8oz
10am
tuna 1oz
dilute juice 2oz
11am
water 8oz
noon
penut butter 1 1/2 tbsp
bread or cracker 1/4 slice or 1 cracker
water 6 oz
1pm
water 8oz
2pm
Isopure 6.5 oz
3pm
protein bar 1oz
4pm
water 8oz
5pm
chicken 1/2 oz
broccoli/cheese 1/2oz
water 8oz
6pm
water 8 oz
7pm sugar free hot chocolate 8oz
I am only taking one day from each week just to give you an idea. They call the first 6 months post op, your Honeymoon period because during that time you are able to loose more weight than you will ever be able to again. It starts to slow after the 6 month mark but even so most people if they follow the rules and the plan, reach their goal weight in less than 1 year, some even sooner. Some people even have trouble losing too much.

Thank goodness for my husbands job!

the cost of surgery
I can't even imagine having to choose between a cheap car or weight loss surgery but I very well might have been put into that position if my husband hadn't had such a great job with such stellar insurance. Thank you SO much honey!
Important dates and how far post op I will be at them;

Being a bridesmaid at my friends wedding (late June) 3 months post op, so hopefully, 35+ pounds gone(average weight loss is 15 pounds a month post operatively so I am giving myself a low estimate)

Going to my family reunion (early September)5 1/2 months post op, so hopefully, 60+ pounds gone

Going to Florida for Will's family reunion (Late December or early January) 9 months post op, so hopefully, 95+ pounds gone!