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Topic: RE: WOW 3 Years POST OP!!!!
Yes, Donna, it is hard to believe. I guess I had forgotten. It seems like a lifetime ago. Congrats on your success. Deana
Topic: WOW 3 Years POST OP!!!!
Hard to believe that I have made it 3 years post op TODAY !!!
I am so glad that I did the surgery. Would do it again in a heart beat. I am still losing and loving it. I am about a size 4 now. Just need to get in shape for summer now.
Topic: RE: Gained 75 pounds back since 2004 bypass surgery
Linda,
You are not alone. I have also gained about 50 pounds back. I got pregnant in April 2006, gained 50 pounds, then lost 28 right afterwards but put back on 10 in 4 months since my daughter has been born. Before I got pregnant, I had gained almost 20 pounds back also. So, here I am strugglind with food choices and bad snacking. Trying to get back on with exercise again and doing my protein shakes in the morning but I always feel hungry... . Carbs are a huge part of my intake these days.
It has been 3 years since I has surgery and the honeymoon is FAR from over!!
Topic: Gained 75 pounds back since 2004 bypass surgery
Well, despite therapy, and constant food reduction attempts, I still keep steadily gaining weight since my April 2004 bypass surgery. I never got rid of the reasons I "use" food, and even when I was looking and feeling so much better, something inside my head made me begin to creep back up in weight, by grazing and eating all the wrong unhealthy foods again. I had originally lost 134 pounds the first year and was a model of perfection diet-wize. But over the last two years I'm so anxiety ridden and continue to make failed attempts to go back to basics. Many of my medical problems are re-surfacing, when I had actually thought I was going to be free of them at last. I absolutely hate myself and my body. It makes me sick to look down at, even my forearms ! So, the self-loathing is back and I feel so very far away from any kind of acceptable weight and good health. I was surprised to find out how difficult it is to realize weight loss while eating so much less food anyway. Before surgery, if I had eaten the foods I do now, I would have Lost weight. But, that's not the way my body works now. I feel like I practically have to starve to lose anything, and then I gain it back after giving up in a few days. I really can't imaging carving myself so slowly down to a healthy state again. It seems so hopeless to me now. This feels like slow death - just like before surgery, even though I've still kept some of the weight off. I started at 334 and got down to 201 and now am 277. It feels like I'm stuck in a horrible dream world.
Gosh, this was an horribly dreary post, but I've not been on for a LONG time and it's truly how I'm feeling right now. Is anyone out there going through something similar? I would like to feel that I'm not so alone in this (but also hope no one IS feeling this way).
Thanks for listening. All the very best to you all!!
Linda
Topic: RE: Happy three year rebirthdays!
I hear you 3 years for me today as well. Time flies when you are losing weight!
I just had a limited abdominoplasty on the 4th and feeling great!!
Jim
Topic: RE: Roll Call - post your successes, your challenges, and a friendly message to the April clan
Name: Mae
Successes: Why do I still struggle with this word... All and all, I guess I would consider myself a success...As I sit here today I am 158. At 5'7" that isn't too bad. I am a 'normal' size. For the most part I feel great at this weight. BUT, since I had picked 145 as a goal weight, and only made it to 146, and have regained 10-15 pounds off and on, I still beat myself up a little.
I do participate in my life so much more than before, with two children that is one of the biggest rewards for me!
Challenges:
The regain of the 10-15 pounds, and not wanting to become complacent and let my self go again, it scares me! I have 3 sizes in my closet, and I am to the largest...and refusing to buy any larger...so that means I need to go back to basics, and get off of my butt and be proactive!
I too have been feeling a little more depressed in the last year. I think being at the stage where I was ready for PS, and then not making it a financial priority was a little discouraging for me.
I need to work on my food choices! Even when something doesn't feel good, if I want it, I eat it. I need to listen to my pouch more often!
And I need to work on not consuming wasted calories through coffee and martinis.
I'm realizing, and admitting to myself, that I do have an addictive personality, and it seems I have to do something excessively in my life, whether it is eating, shopping, knitting, crafting, drinking...I struggle every day with finding constructive forms of excess...lol.
I can be naive enough to think I can handle it all myself and not seek support...now days I'm thinking that is a pretty stupid thought process!
Friendly Message: I miss and need the support that got me to this point! It sounds like a lot of us are going through similar issues! We should be there for each other!
Topic: RE: Roll Call - post your successes, your challenges, and a friendly message to the April clan
Hello,
Starting weight - 342
Current weight - 134
BMI - 21.6
I'm loosing again, don't know why, I think I look best at around 140, but struggle to stay up there. I haven't had any plastic surgery, no time or money, plus a fear of blood clots.
Dianne
Topic: RE: Roll Call - post your successes, your challenges, and a friendly message to the April clan
Successes. Um. Working on that.
Challenges. Feeling like dookie. Losing the last of the regain.
Message. HOW THE HELL ARE YOU ALL?!
Topic: RE: Roll Call - post your successes, your challenges, and a friendly message to the April clan
Name: Toni
Successes: No complications from ds or skin removal. Lost 150 pounds!
Challenges: Re-gain of 10 in the last 3 months. Wanting to eat Carbs, Carbs, Carbs. Self Image from skin removal is hard to deal with. I need to have a revision. To any one out there, do your homework. There is a major difference between a panalectomy and body lift. Skin removal is just that. Also, my weight gain is all in the middle - it is hard to wear the cools pants with the cute shirts.
Friendly Message: I have been missing the board and seeing everyone's progress. Good to see everyone!
Toni Bowen
Open DS 20 April 2004
Start Weight 285
Lowest Weight 129
Current Weight 140
BMI was 54
BMI is currently 26.5 (still slightly overweight)