Improvements
One thing I would really like to hear about from everyone is a list of things that have gotten better in your life since the surgery. Whether that is being able to go to Lagoon, running up a flight of stairs, being able to walk, having the opposite gender pay you more attention, or just plain sex (have you noticed PALIN [as in Sarah] uses the same letters as PLAIN? I just noticed that). Anyway, please email me your lists. It will be fun to compile them and find out how many of us have these things in common. You can find my email address by going to my blog [www.seanstransformation.blogspot.com] and clicking on "view my complete profile" under my picture.

Frustrations

  So two days after reaching 225 lbs again, I find myself back up to 229. What happened?!? It's frustrating because I've been so good. I haven't had much carbs at all, the calories have been within the desired range and my water has been good. I'm almost positive it's water retention but why? I'm not going to beat myself up too much about it, I know I'm on the right path. If I was eating a bunch of stuff that was boosting my daily caloric intake to unknown heights, I'd be worried. It's just frustrating.

 

Okay, so quick update.  As of today (2/2/09), I'm back at 225 lbs.  Yay!  I'll tell you, it is amazingly easy to put the weight back on even now than it is to take it off.  But at least I know that I can do it whenever I want.   Now... for today's thoughts:   When I went into surgery I told myself that I wasn't going to date for 24 months.  I figured with the amount of weight I wanted to lose, I was in it for 24 months.  I think that was a wise choice.  I'm starting to date a bit now and I've actually met someone really nice who I've started to date a bit.  I hope that will work out.  My self-esteem and confidence about myself is at an all new level and I've lost all the weight that I started out to lose.  Now I just need to figure out to pay for and schedule the surgery to at least remove a good portion of my excess skin.   It's funny to me that people tell you that you shouldn't let your weight keep you from things but those people have never been 474 lbs.  The difference in how you are perceived and treated is amazing.  Even by those who it doesn't really matter much to.  Since losing the weight, I feel like I've been phased into the same reality as all those who I watched live life for so many years.  Finally I can experience and be a part of the same world I saw for so many years.  It's exciting.   The future has taken on a million new colors and now it's up to me to make sure I make the right choices in who I elect to date, etc.  And most of all it remains a MUST to be forever vigilante as to my weight, what I'm eating, how much I'm drinking.  It truly is a lifelong commitment.  It sounds like a daunting task but carrying around an extra 250 lbs is a daunting task.  This is nothing.   Take care.   Sean

For those of you following the posts in this forum, let me tell you about my struggle to get back on track after gaining 7 lbs in 5 days.  I've done really well.  3 days back on track and I've lost 4 of those lbs already.  With any luck it was all water retention and I'll be back to my good old 223 lbs mark early next week.  Or maybe a little longer.  You never know.  But it's nice to know I can fight the cravings and the occasional stress or boredom and come out on top.  Yay!

WLS has been such a godsend for me.  It's amazing that I can go on a date and hold hands through a movie and know that it's just as exciting for her to hold my hand as it is for me to hold hers.  Very unlike before when all I'd do is wonder whether she would accept me as I was and wonder if I should even try to hold her hand.  Such a change.  Again, yay!

Sean

In episode 14, we’ll start our weekly highlight of surgery types with Gastric Banding, expose the good and evil that lives in a patient’s head, and make a yummy high protein quiche.

HIGHLIGHTS

• We ask for your help in gaining sponsors by filling out our viewer survey.
• Answering the constant request for a show highlighting the types of bariatric surgeries.
• It used to be just the Roux-en-y that was getting attention.
• We take a look at gastric banding.
• The main choices in banding are The Lapband & The Realize Band.
• Post your banding question in our Bandsters forum.
• Good and evil voices in your head.
• The battle of the maple donut
• A recipe for a yummy quiche lorraine
• I’m pinching your head!

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