Update on me!

Well it has been just under six months since I had surgery and I have lost over 100 pounds! I can't believe how my life has changed. I no longer shop in the plus size department I don't even go to the plus size stores anymore! It seems like so long since I started the process but seems so short when I think about how long it has been since surgery.  I am so grateful that I was able to do this. It has totally changed my life! I have more energy to do the things I want to do. I am excersizing at least twice a week for an hour. I love Zumba class! I am trying to go 3 times but my schedule hasn't allowed the time yet. 

It seems weird coming up on the holidays and not really worried about overeatting. It is so weird how your life just doesn't revolve around food anymore. We go out to dinner and I don't even worry about what I am going to eat. My family is wonderful and either my son or husband orders something that I can have a few bites of. That is all it takes to get full.

At this point my weight loss has slowed down a bit. I only lost 10 pounds this last month and the month before and I am okay with that since I am about 15 pounds away from thinking about a goal weight.  I would still like to be down to 130 but the doctor said that 150 would be a resonable goal.

It is funny because I know I have lost this weight but when I see my self in the mirror or a window and I catch my reflection I take another look because I can't believe it is me.  I guess it takes a long time for your brain to catch up your image. I am still a fat girl inside. I wonder how long that lasts.

Anyway it has been almost 6 months and I feel great! I am getting through weeks and months without dumping or making myself sick. I am learning what I can eat and how much I can eat.  It has been a real change but I am doing GREAT! So to everyone thinking that this is the easy way out and not worth the trouble....you are wrong! It was worth every bit of it!!!

Tonya

Congratulations!

Congrats on your first 6 months.  Take full advantage of your honeymoon phase because I laughed when you said "It is so weird how your life just doesn't revolve around food anymore."  The further out you get, the more you focus on food.  I still wake up every day thinking about what I'm going to eat and I plan every single meal.  You might be one of the lucky ones to forgive and forget and move on.  I however was not.  I obsess more about food now at 2 1/2 years out than ever before.

I hope the trend continues. I do think about food but it is more of a second thought. Were before I used to think about what I wanted to eat all the time and going out to dinner with people and now I see that I dont have to go to dinner to socialize and I really dont like going out for dinner because there isnt usually anything that I can get so I dont end up getting anything. I would prefer to just eat at home. And I usually do. My husband has finally stopped trying to feed me all the time. And if there is something that I really want then I just find a way to make it so that I can have it. It just doesn't take priority anymore. I have to many other things that I can concentrate on other than food.

Tonya

Well friends it has been over 11 months since my RNY and today I am thankful to be alive and a lot healthier than I was last year~But I have to share what just recently happened with my friends here. I had a bad experience that happened last Saturday night! I had eaten a really late breakfast and took my meds late( like at 1 ) and I had eaten an unusually large breakfast( 2 pc sausage, 2 eggs, 1 biscuit) I ate the biscuit and sausage while I cooked and then had the eggs and another piece of sausage(which I don't usu sally eat) Anyway, that was about noon and then had lots to drink in the afternoon. Then I had some pudding that was not SF(I thought it was) and started to feel really ill and have diarrhea. My stomach was cramping and I started feeling like my pulse was really low and that I might pass out. I hollered at my DH and when he got in here(I was sitting here at the PC) I was slumped over the computer and when he raised me up I started jerking like I was having a seizure! I lost all my body fluids( I am talking all) and passed out several times! My lips were blue! He put me in the floor and called 911! When the Paramedics got here my BP was at the bottom and they had to stabilize me before they moved me. I was covered in poop and so was the floor. At the ER they ran a cat scan on my head to see IF I had had a stroke and that was OK. They did several EKG's and those were alright and blood work looked ok. They took me off of my meds and my BP came up and they kept me over night and drew the conclusion that I was simply over medicated because I was getting healthier and working out and stuff. But when I went to my doctor on Monday he wants me to see a Neurologist to see if I might have had a TIA. But the cat scan did show negative for that. I am beginning to wonder if I had a major DUMPING SPELL?? Has anyone else had this experience when dumping? The only thing I have ever done that I thought was probably dumping is get really bad gas and diarrhea...I would appreciate any input on this. Doc says no going to the GYM until I get tested and the Neurologist can't even see me until end of Dec! He says to take it easy. He put me back on 20 mg. of Benecar( a BP pill) and took me off of IZMO and Elavil. This was scary guys! I feel that if my DH had not have been here I probably would have died! SO TODAY I AM THANKFUL TO BE ALIVE! I LOVE YOU ALL AND HOPE YOUR DAY IS GREAT! Annett