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Topic: RE: Wishing I didnt ever have the surgery?
You can send me a message anytime. If you have any questions I will answer them honestly. I wish you the best of luck.Hold your head up and things will be fine. I too was scared of the surgery its self. Kim
Kimberly
Topic: RE: Wishing I didnt ever have the surgery?
Hi Kimberly,
I am so happy to hear that you are feeling better. That is great that you were able to lose 40 pounds on the protein diet. Over the past 20 years I have lost 45 pounds four different times! The protein diet was the easiest, but every time I gain back the weight plus more within a couple of years. I am not saying that you would have gained it back, but the statistics show that only 5% of obese people are actually able to lose weight AND keep it off. I know that I will still have to work hard to keep it off, but I am hoping that a RNY will help me do that. I am afraid of the surgery and complications and sickness that go along with it, but I am even more afraid of being told that I can't have it done. Thank you so much for letting me know how you are doing and please keep me posted.
Paige
I am so happy to hear that you are feeling better. That is great that you were able to lose 40 pounds on the protein diet. Over the past 20 years I have lost 45 pounds four different times! The protein diet was the easiest, but every time I gain back the weight plus more within a couple of years. I am not saying that you would have gained it back, but the statistics show that only 5% of obese people are actually able to lose weight AND keep it off. I know that I will still have to work hard to keep it off, but I am hoping that a RNY will help me do that. I am afraid of the surgery and complications and sickness that go along with it, but I am even more afraid of being told that I can't have it done. Thank you so much for letting me know how you are doing and please keep me posted.
Paige
Topic: RE: Wishing I didnt ever have the surgery?
Hey, sorry I have been so busy trying to stay busy so I dont just sit around and try to eat.I dont regret having the surgery as much as I did before. I am able to eat pretty much anything now, just a spoonful is about all I can have.I cook for my family and I still cook the stuff they like and when I cook something I am not able to eat I ll eat tuna in the pouch and a few cooked baby carrots.I am not very fond of carrots but its good for you.This meal last 3 meals for me.All my favorite foods are no longer.I dont order when we go out to eat cause its way to much. I ll eat off my kids or my husbands plate.usually a bite of there salad is what I eat. I loved bread before but am not able to eat more than a tiny tiny bird bite. I am able to get up and just go and go. I drink sugar free crystal light punch, it taste like cool aid and i sometimes get lemonade crystal light.I do think back and I wonder if I could of lost the weight on my own. I was put on a strict diet of two protein drinks and a salad a day and I lost 40 pounds before my surgery and I think how easy it was. I had never been able t o loose weight before but the portein DOES WORK.Now, you ask if I regret it honestly I can answer NO and YES.No for the fact that I am just shedding off weight like crazy, I feel better,look better,have more energy.Yes because im not able to be like everyone else,eating,drinking,and socializing with food like everyone does.I am still learning how to not eat cause everyone else is.I keep my drink with me and drink as much as I can.But if you are planning to have this surgery done you need to read as much as you can on it and the way it really is afterwards.You will be sick alot, or as I should say I am. I get sick every day or so, jus from eating something too fast, or too much or something that isnt agreeing with me. If I would of known it would of made me feel like this alot, I wouldnt have had it done. I hate being sick.But life for me is getting better, so far I ve lost a total of 85 pounds. It does get easier as everyone told me, each month is easier.The first two are the hardest.Hope yall are all doing good. I need to get on here more..
Kimberly
Hey, sorry I have been so busy trying to stay busy so I dont just sit around and try to eat.I dont regret having the surgery as much as I did before. I am able to eat pretty much anything now, just a spoonful is about all I can have.I cook for my family and I still cook the stuff they like and when I cook something I am not able to eat I ll eat tuna in the pouch and a few cooked baby carrots.I am not very fond of carrots but its good for you.This meal last 3 meals for me.All my favorite foods are no longer.I dont order when we go out to eat cause its way to much. I ll eat off my kids or my husbands plate.usually a bite of there salad is what I eat. I loved bread before but am not able to eat more than a tiny tiny bird bite. I am able to get up and just go and go. I drink sugar free crystal light punch, it taste like cool aid and i sometimes get lemonade crystal light.I do think back and I wonder if I could of lost the weight on my own. I was put on a strict diet of two protein drinks and a salad a day and I lost 40 pounds before my surgery and I think how easy it was. I had never been able t o loose weight before but the portein DOES WORK.Now, you ask if I regret it honestly I can answer NO and YES.No for the fact that I am just shedding off weight like crazy, I feel better,look better,have more energy.Yes because im not able to be like everyone else,eating,drinking,and socializing with food like everyone does.I am still learning how to not eat cause everyone else is.I keep my drink with me and drink as much as I can.But if you are planning to have this surgery done you need to read as much as you can on it and the way it really is afterwards.You will be sick alot, or as I should say I am. I get sick every day or so, jus from eating something too fast, or too much or something that isnt agreeing with me. If I would of known it would of made me feel like this alot, I wouldnt have had it done. I hate being sick.But life for me is getting better, so far I ve lost a total of 85 pounds. It does get easier as everyone told me, each month is easier.The first two are the hardest.Hope yall are all doing good. I need to get on here more..Kimberly Kimberly
Topic: RE: Wishing I didnt ever have the surgery?
Now that another month has gone by, do you still regret having the surgery? Are you feeling better? Please let us know...we are concerned about you.
Paige
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Topic: RE: made a decision to have one of the weight loss surgery ( am so scared)
hi amanda i'm planning to do it somewhere in ny too that where my mother live and where my regular doctor is also.. i moved to jersey now but i still go everyday to ny... i just stated getting aches and stuff before i was very active and this never happen to me that why i didin't mind having the weight but now is like i feel terrible..... i went to a seminar in presbyterian hospital in 168 but some one recommended me not to do it there so i think i will go somewhere else or maybe try the lenox hill hospital thanks u so much...
Topic: RE: newbie....
I just had the fobi pouch on July 6th. At first I was thinking about having the realize band but later decieded to go with the fobi pouch. Im feeling pretty good compared to what i expected. Let me know if you have any questions. I'll answer you my honest opinion!!
Loraine
Loraine
Topic: RE: Dr. Jossart - bariatric surgery program
I hate to be a naysayer but get another surgeon. You need your 7k for shopping or Plastics!!! Come on!! Be serious!!
Topic: RE: made a decision to have one of the weight loss surgery ( am so scared)
when I decided to do this I was scared too!! I don't have aches but I am over 300lbs and have been for soooo long and I workout and was getting no where. Toned up but weight was going up instead of down. That's when I made my decision. I went to a weight loss seminar in NYC and moved on from there. Now awaiting insurance approval and going to move on. If you want to come to NYC use Lenox Hill Hospital they have a great team there and you will be in good hands.
Take care
Amanda
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