Roll call for June bugs!

Hello everyone! It's been ages since we all posted on how we are doing.....So lets have it! How's it going? How much have you lost/losing? Anything new to report? Any one have any plastics? Go anywhere exciting this summer? Let's hear it!!! Ok, I'll start.....I was AWOL from here for about 6 months... I guess I was under the assumption that I could go live like a normal person and eat like a normal person and I wouldn't gain anything. Wrong!!! I gained 15 lbs. It took me the entire 6 months, but I did. I guess laying around a pool, drinking beer (bad, bad girl!!) and munching on Doritos and gabbing with my girlfriends, was not the appropiate thing to do for maintaining weigh loss! Duhhhh!!! I also stopped working out. I guess I had to "test the waters". But what I figured out was that yes, I can gain weight. I really wasn't sure I could...Well, call me stupid (ok, you're stupid!) but guess what, beer will make you gain weight faster than you can say Coors Light! Even after gastric bypass surgery. Like I said, bad, bad girl!! So after 15 lbs, I came to my senses. I start recalling just how much I had been through to get here. How often I got sick...which was a LOT, in the early months... I remembered the way I used to be, how miserable I was....How lonely I was....Before I lost the weight, I was living (hiding out actually) on the side of a mountain, in the woods, with my best friend food. I was so lonely, but I was in a self-made prison, so to speak. I didn't socialize very much. Lack of self-esteem I guess. Stayed home a lot. Certainly didn't want a man in my life either...(that has since changed! His name is Rich and I'm madly in love!!) Yeah, my life pretty much sucked!! Anyway, after all of this reflection, came a new resolve. I was NOT going back to the old me! No way! I decided that I hadn't gone through all of this, made all these changes in my life, just to **** it away for junk food and beer. I realized that I am and always will be a gastric bypass patient. Although I will not let it define me, I also will not ever forget the rules that I must live by to maintain this loss. I have left my old ways of coping behind me, and have moved into a new way of thinking. Maybe it's a good thing that I did gain a little back. It made me realize that I must always keep going in that positive direction. Never give up and never forget how far I have come... I have lost 5 of the 15 pounds. I went back to the gym and now I am enjoying exercise for the first time in my life. Me? A gym rat? Who would've thunk? Enough about me. How is everyone doing? I think of all of you June bugs often and wonder how you all are doing. Please check in and ease my mind. The good, the bad or the ugly, lets hear it all! We are all in this together! Lyn 245/164/155

Hey Lyb I am glad to hear you have got yourself back on track!! It is harder than I ever thought. I worry about my weight all the time. I love to eat right and excersie. I hope this never changes. This is going to be a life time thing. Right now I stay around 145- 150 and feel great. I haven't gained any and hope I never do.

I thought this thread was just going to sit here forever! I was wondering if anybody from June 2004, even came on here anymore! It's nice to hear from another June bug and to hear you're doing well! I am enjoying exercise also, but it sometimes drops my blood sugar really low. I now walk around the gym with glucose tablets in my pocket. Oh well, whatever works! Maybe if I only worked out 3 or 4 days a week instead of 6 or 7, it might help.....Nawwww....never mind! I'll try another posting in a while, to see if anybody still logs on here. Keep up the good work! Lyn

Hi Lyn I was wondering if anyone posts here! I am enjoying walking and working out with weights which I just started today. I've lost around 100 pounds, but I started at almost 400 pounds. I need to lose 120 pounds. I am back on track and still need motivation to walk everyday! I wish we lived closer! I need an excersise buddy! Hope you are doing well! Janet in Kansas City

Hi all! I have been "MIA" for some time now and I've been dreadful with updating my profile, but I'll get on that soon too. My update: I lost slowly and steadily through May of this year. I maintained well within a pound or so through Sept of this year. I was "OK" with that weight - although I wouldn't have minded losing a few more pounds. THEN, in late Sept a couple I regained about 3#. I was justifying with myself I had been on medications that might have contributed to that, so I was aware but not terribly concerned. BUT I just weighed again today and I'm at a total +6lbs (3lbs in Sept and 3lbs in Oct)!!! GAWD -- I guess it was inevitable, but the honeymoon is definitely OVER!! I'm going to buckle down. That was a bright red flag I saw on the scales this morning! I read the average weight regain after wls is around 20%. TWENTY PERCENT IS A LOT OF WEIGHT!!! I don't want to be included in that average!! I AM GOING TO NIP THIS IN THE BUD NOW!!! I hope by making a public declaration I WILL do it. I DREAD the thought of regaining -- ANY OF IT. The idea of being fat again has been my recurring nightmare since all this began -

June bug here,,, I have been mia from this site for a while... and now it shows.. up 5 lbs,,, which isnt bad,,BUT I never made my goal weight.... I have been acting normal and all,, that has to stop ASAP!!!! I am glad to be back and want to look great for all those upcoming christmas photo memories..... Christy 316/180/150

Hello to EVERYONE, I hope things are going well for all. I'm very proud to say I haven't gain any weight. My current weight is 132 and that's comming from 232-250 pds back in June of 2004, Hope never to see that weight again. See you guys next month at weight in time.

Lyn, I see I am really late on an update here.... Thanks for starting the thread. Life has been hard the last 6 months and there is a gain going on that I am going to stop right now....Alcohol is not my friend. I see with the little I have the scale just goes up and up....not good. So its going away for a long time...maybe forever. I am going to try and avoid it as much as possible. I like the taste and the feeling after one drink....not good. My exercise is picking up again. I am almost lifting 100lbs with the arms.....amazing when I started it was only 20 lbs if that. I like life...do I want more of a loss...hell yes. I wish I could get to the ones.....Maybe 2007 will be my year! Happy New Year to all you June Bugs.....and remember we can do it...Be Healthy!!!! Debbie