Marsha, Two things;

1. Have you asked this on the plastics forum? They might be able to help you over there.

2. "The Weight Loss Journey - a day of education and an evening of celebration for clinical providers and patients  on Saturday, Oct. 8 has a session on body contouring and plastic surgery given by Sam Economu, MD." Might be worth checking out. 

Hi everyone... It's been awhile since I've posted but I'm looking for some help in getting back on track with my weight loss... I had my surgery about 4 1/2 years ago and lost 140 pounds. I started out at over 350 pounds so still had a ways to go but felt great after losing that much weight... Some things happened in my life and I ended up gaining back 40 pounds of the weight I had lost. I am now struggling to get that 40 pounds off, plus at least 40 more... I'm not looking for answers... I know what I need to do to... I guess I'm just looking for support and accountability... I am going to be posting my Weight and Activity (and anything else I feel is relevant to helping me reach my weight loss goal) so I hope you don't get sick of hearing from me and if anyone else wants to join me that would be great... So, here are my "stats" for today...

Weight: 240
Activity: Wii Fit 20 minutes/Walk 20 minutes

Thanks for the support!

Michelle 

541 highest known
491 lap rny 1-12-11
353 last week
350 this week

Woot woot the scale is back in the negitive yesterday. In the middle of 13+ straight days of 12+ hour days at work. Too many farts to list....It seems like my new birthday was so long ago already. I am greatful everday for a great doc and his staff, everyone and there experiences on OH, and the my friends with RNY surgery experiences....Oh yeah and the Wifey:)

I got plastic surgery done and I got a lot done at once. he did a little on a lot of stuff and I was not happy because the results were not as good. I tried to save money and now I still have to go back and have it all done again. Break it up into 2 surgeries and you will be much happier with the results.

If you haven't already, I would post this in the DS forum, there are several DS moms who periodically post there, and they seem to be doing well. From what I understand, there are vitamin considerations, but it is not impossible to have a pregnancy after the DS. Also, there are several post-DS moms on the duodenalswitch.com forums: http://www.duodenalswitch.com/forum/ and a few kicking around in the pregnancy after WLS  forum: http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/postop_pregnancy/