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Topic: RE: Reflections of A Year Gone By!
Patti:
Congratulations on your success. I'm certain that your second year will be just as successful as the first.
Jesse
Topic: RE: Happy Anniversary to ME!
Congratulations on you Anniversary. I don't understand why you thought it would be easy, I thought the only ones who thought that were the people who tell us we took "the easy way out". Think about what you have done, you had major surgery to have your insides rearranged. For me the decision wasn't easy, I knew I was changing my life forever and knew that I had to change past behaviors in order to have the desired results.
You have to focus on the positives and get rid of the negatives. You may not have accomplished all that you had hoped for in this past year but you have your whole lifetime ahead of you! Don't always measure your success on the number of pounds you've lost - focus more on inches, how you feel as compared to how you felt a year ago.
And finally, get it into your head that sugar is NOT your friend! Nowadays, there really isn't an excuse to be eating it if you shouldn't - there are so many sugar-free things out there that taste good, thanks to the lo-carb craze. Obviously, you can't go crazy with that stuff but as a treat on occasion go for it.
I know you have it in you to see this through no matter how long it takes, just keep at it.
Good luck and keep looking forward to next year!
Patti
Topic: RE: Happy Re-Birthday to me!
Boy, Larry,
How did you manage that? A birthday and a re-birthday all in the same day. Congratulations on both counts. I am probably one of the few who has not even attempted to even try to eat anything with sugar, never wanted to find out if I dumped. Didn't want to make myself unecessarily sick if I did, and was afraid that I wouldn't and didn't want to go down that road.
Keep up the good work, I'm certain that you will get to your goal.
Patti
Topic: RE: eating too much?????
Mary,
You really don't have enough information here for someone to give you any type of advice. Maybe you aren't looking for advice and were only venting but I can't see how you could possibly gain weight eating what you eat. Personally, it doesn't sound like you are eating enough - especially at a year out. I figured I would peek at your profile, but like me, you don't update too often. At your 5 month mark, you were down 76 pounds and considered that bad - I think it was fantastic, but of course that's only my opinion. How have you done the lsat 7 months?
As far as your concerns, I think most of us worry about gaining the weight back - afterall, most of us have done it in the past(on more than one occasion, LOL). Having said that, I KNOW that this time will be different. I have spent the last year learning to "listen" to my body when it comes to food. I eat until I feel comfortably "full", I don't weigh and measure my food because I can now pretty much tell my sight how much I should be able to eat. At times, it ends up still being to much but then I save it for another day, my husband will fini**** or I give it to the dog - depending upon what it is.
My typical day's meal consist of:
Breakfast - a protein shake (at least 5 days a week) (on weekends, I sometimes have eggs or Lo Carb Special K w/Skim Plus milk)
Lunch - a small chef salad (so that I get protein in, I add some lofat cheese and some deli meats like turkey, chicken and ham) w/reduced calorie dressing.
Dinner - 3-4oz of protein (usually steak, chicken or fish) and a vegetable of some sort.
I rarely snack, but when I do I either eat fruit or 1% cottage cheese with pineapple mixed into it.
I also go out to dinner at least once a week. Will share an appetizer with my husband and then order whatever it is I want for dinner, which will include a vegetable and baked potato. I only eat a few small bites of each thing but it is my "treat" for the week and it's been something I've been doing ever since I was able to tolerate solid foods.
Mary, I know it is easy for me to say this but you have to stop being afraid. You had this surgery to make your life better and I hope you are living it better today than you were a year ago.
If you need someone to talk to, please feel free to e-mail me.
All the best to you in your journey,
Patti
Topic: Reflections of A Year Gone By!
Hi everyone.
Well today is the one year anniversary of my surgery date. My "re-birthday" , my crossing over to the "losing" or "winning" side or whatever other catch phrases we use on these boards. All I can say is that it has been one fantastic ride! The year has flown by - I can't really say that it is because of all my experiences since WLS or just the fact that the older I get the faster the days keep going, whatever.
Many of you have written and asked me to post about my experiences over the past year and I said I would. So here goes.
First, for any of you who haven't read my profile. I started my WLS quest back in May of 2002. After many bumps in the road, I finally had my surgery a year ago today. I am so very grateful for the skilled hands of my surgeon, Dr. Adaniel and am thankful to my friend, Susan, for giving me his name when I was frantic after my surgery was cancelled by my first surgeon and didn't know what I was going to do.
Next, the stats. I started my quest at my own personal highest weight of 306 (my official starting weight with my surgeon was 286 because I had decided to try one last diet when my original surgery was cancelled), this morning I weighed 145.5, so I am down a total of 160.5 pounds. I have lost 13.25 inches off my chest, 16.25 off my waist and 19.25 off my hips. I have gone from a loose fitting 26/28 to size 8 or 10 and 2XL to Smalls & Mediums. If anyone had told me a year ago that I would have had these results, I would not ever have believed them! I never doubted that I would lose weight and sure I had hopes of getting down to this weight, but I never thought I would accompli**** in a year! Although I am not quite at my goal weight, I only have about 5-10 pounds to go and I know that I will make it!
Now, what has been happening? I am still the same person I was before only happier and more confident. I want to do more and be out more instead of staying cooped up in the prison I had created for myself. I am off all of my medications for blood pressure and no longer have those aches and pains in the hips and knees that plagued me.
How can I describe the feeling of getting on an airplane the first time and not only hogging someone else's seat (feeling like your squished in a sardine can) but actually having room to spare! It's phenomenal!
I can't even describe the first time I went shopping for "regular" sized clothing and being so overwhelmed by the various departments because I was so used to only going to that one hidden in the back of the store with the limited choices. What fun it is today to shop and have to decide what to buy because you have too many choices and everything looks good as opposed to well this doesn't make me look too fat, I'll settle for it.
There are some down sides, too. Unfortunately, like so many other people who have been morbidly obese for such a long time as I was, I still see myself as fat. I still panic when I have to navigate walking through what I perceive as a small space and am always pleasantly surprised when I fit with room to spare. I'm working on that and hope that before too long my head will catch up with my body. Life and the world around us hasn't changed (our perspective may have, and how we deal with it and others around us may have but....) For me today, even though I celebrate this milestone in my life, I am also very sad because my son left home today to start a new chapter in his life. Perhaps he won't be gone for too long and it isn't the first time he's left, but this time he's gone too far that I can't see him or speak to him every day as I have been able to. While I am happy for him, I am sad for me. I know I'll feel better in a few days but today is not that day.
It is the best thing I could have done for me and given the choice I'd do it all again!
For all my September 2003 friends, continued success in our second year!
God Bless,
Patti
Topic: RE: eating too much?????
Whoa! Don't worry! I'm eating twice as much as you are and still losing (albeit slowly now that I'm a year post op). Hang in there.
Topic: Happy Re-Birthday to me!
Today is my 47th birthday and also the one year anniversary of my open RNY surgery. I've lost 108 lbs. The losing was easy at the beginning but tougher now. I seem to be able to eat anything but sugar. It makes me sicker than a dead pig in the sunshine!!!!!
Topic: RE: eating too much?????
Sounds good to me....I wish I ate that little. I think I can eat too much, with meat/chickien being only exception, can't handle much of that 2-3 oz tops. I'm a year out also and still have a bunch to go and on a bad week (couple office birthday cakes) I have gained so I constantly watch everything and do the weigh****cher points system so I'm still losing SLOWLY!
Good luck on continued success!
Topic: RE: Happy Anniversary to ME!
I'm still working on the numbers and every day is a battle and probably will be forever....
Forget to fill in the numbers in original post.
270/196/150
P.S. I really wish sugar caused dumping for me.......it's my toughest challenge.
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