7 years today!!!

Hi, all,

It's been a long time since I've posted. Thank you OH and you all for providing essential support and for what I've learned here keeping me on track for so long!

7 years post RNY today! I've kept my weight stable at goal or a little under for 5½ years now.

My health has never been better. My premorbid conditions have resolved, the chronic ones have not progressed. Thank heavens I have had no post-op complications.

The cornerstone of what works for me is my at least 2½ mile daily speed walking meditation. I figure I've crossed the country coast to coast 2½ times by now. Plus I do as much as I can of other exercise.

I walk to manage my head as much if not more than for the exercise. At first I had to drag my head kicking and screaming out the door, now my day doesn't work without it and making it happen is just what I do and work the rest of my day around. I miss about 5 days a year when I just can't fit it in. I walk no matter what the weather is unless there is a blizzard or it is pouring, and then I do the dreadmill.

I weigh daily and keep myself within a 4 pound margin. I eat healthy and with a schedule, but I eat pretty much anything, protein first. The right amount is now habit but also dictated by my small tummy- I can't eat a single bite more than my signal or there is a price to pay. Binging is not an option. The exercise manages my cravings. I go by my blood work to determine needed vitamins. I keep myself active doing lots of things.

My self confidence is radically improved. I like having my attention over there outside myself as opposed to within me all tangled up with self consciousness.

Given how I was both head and body before surgery I'm simply amazed I have been able to do this! I couldn't have done it without my surgery. I acknowledge myself for doing what I have needed to do to continue maintaining the results.

Commitment, action, perseverance through time. Keep on keeping on no matter what!

Woot!!!!!

PS See profile for before and after!

Wow! Your post is such an inspiration to me. Thanks for taking the time to share.

Thanks so much for sharing your positive report of the long view. Detailing your strategy is helpful. Congrats on your hard work!

Such an inspiring post! Thank you for sharing!

From the bottom of my heart, Congratulations!!! You are and inspiration!

Congrats! For someone who has done so amazingly well, you really don't post very often. I would think you would be wanting to pay it forward it daily, like so many successful vets do. Not judging, just making an observation. Consider it a compliment!

I know I never could have made it...and still be making it...with those that went before, with...and after me!!

I hear you, Gina, re: posting more often. I do post on a FB long timer's group. God bless the vets who were there for me including you!

Congratulations on your