Someone please just tell me this is a phase I'm going through!!
When you are 100 pounds down it will so be worth it! Look at it like this, its only a few months out of your life to get to goal. It took years to put on the weight and about a year out you wont even remember how you were second guessing yourself. Hang in there!
Preop 242 Height 5'4" Current: 145 Want to get back to 135. ZERO Complications! ZERO Vomiting (Chew, chew, chew)! ZERO Regrets!
Aloha and wow...I am blown away by your story. I rarely come into different forums from my usual Over Fifty Forum, but today I wandered over here, and am shaking my head. I had no idea of the feelings about WLS that are so negative.
Did I read this right that you had lost 152 lbs. WAITING to get surgery? You must have been doing something right! I'm wondering why you had this surgery at all. "Misery and Unhappiness" are strong words to use following WLS and I think maybe you need to see your bariatric doc to get depression meds. I feel a little strange posting here as I'm MUCH OLDER than I think you probably are.....in my 60's....but also I am a retired clinical psychologist so I have that background from which to pull information and experience.
OK...let me tell you what it's like at almost 3 years out......I eat LOTS of good food. Last night I had a steak with mushrooms, broccoli in butter, garlic mashed potatoes, and for dessert a sugar-free piece of lemon cheesecake. You cannot tell me that I am missing out on anything!! (I weigh half of what I weighed 3 years ago...)
Hang in there sweetie...and IM me if you would care to discuss this further. I still can't get over your losing 152 lbs. and still having surgery. I need to know more info as to why you did not just keep on doing what you were doing...obviously, it was working!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
Did I read this right that you had lost 152 lbs. WAITING to get surgery? You must have been doing something right! I'm wondering why you had this surgery at all. "Misery and Unhappiness" are strong words to use following WLS and I think maybe you need to see your bariatric doc to get depression meds. I feel a little strange posting here as I'm MUCH OLDER than I think you probably are.....in my 60's....but also I am a retired clinical psychologist so I have that background from which to pull information and experience.
OK...let me tell you what it's like at almost 3 years out......I eat LOTS of good food. Last night I had a steak with mushrooms, broccoli in butter, garlic mashed potatoes, and for dessert a sugar-free piece of lemon cheesecake. You cannot tell me that I am missing out on anything!! (I weigh half of what I weighed 3 years ago...)
Hang in there sweetie...and IM me if you would care to discuss this further. I still can't get over your losing 152 lbs. and still having surgery. I need to know more info as to why you did not just keep on doing what you were doing...obviously, it was working!
Aloha nui loa,
Maui Karen
Thank you so much for reading and reply to me...
I'm am doing better now, I think this was shortly after I had surgery. I am able to eat more and don't feel deprived now. I'm actually dealing with hunger and able to eat anyting. I've only lost about another 5 lbs since this post. I'm into a size 8 though so I try not to stress about the numbers.
I am on an anti depressent and I think it might have helped, I'm on wellbutrin and klonopin.
Do you have any helpful hints on what to do about the hunger and ability to eat more, and how to keep motivation? I would still like to lose another 40 lbs and it seems I've gotten very lazy with the rules.
Congratulations on your succesful 3 years, that is awesome, I hope to be one of those far out people like you that are able to come back here with positive results.
I did lose 152lbs before, I had to do a year with my surgeons dietician and I had been denied once before by my insurance, they said I had to lose some on my own first. I liked the accountabilty of knowing I had to see her every month. I think I need that again, I'm only accountable to me now and I won't weigh myself if I think I may be up a lb. Lieing to myself doesn't help. I decied to go ahead with surgery because I had lost and gained 100lbs at leat 5 times since my teens.
I'm happy now with my decision to have the surgery , I'm just at a point right now I have to recommit to the rules and stop with the lil cheats, before I've undo the work of getting healthy and slim like I've always wanted.
Thanking you very much for stoping by and talking to me, I look forward to hearing any advice you might have on how you have stayed so succesful and what you do to keep on track.
Have a great night and I will talk to you soon...
Julie
I'm am doing better now, I think this was shortly after I had surgery. I am able to eat more and don't feel deprived now. I'm actually dealing with hunger and able to eat anyting. I've only lost about another 5 lbs since this post. I'm into a size 8 though so I try not to stress about the numbers.
I am on an anti depressent and I think it might have helped, I'm on wellbutrin and klonopin.
Do you have any helpful hints on what to do about the hunger and ability to eat more, and how to keep motivation? I would still like to lose another 40 lbs and it seems I've gotten very lazy with the rules.
Congratulations on your succesful 3 years, that is awesome, I hope to be one of those far out people like you that are able to come back here with positive results.
I did lose 152lbs before, I had to do a year with my surgeons dietician and I had been denied once before by my insurance, they said I had to lose some on my own first. I liked the accountabilty of knowing I had to see her every month. I think I need that again, I'm only accountable to me now and I won't weigh myself if I think I may be up a lb. Lieing to myself doesn't help. I decied to go ahead with surgery because I had lost and gained 100lbs at leat 5 times since my teens.
I'm happy now with my decision to have the surgery , I'm just at a point right now I have to recommit to the rules and stop with the lil cheats, before I've undo the work of getting healthy and slim like I've always wanted.
Thanking you very much for stoping by and talking to me, I look forward to hearing any advice you might have on how you have stayed so succesful and what you do to keep on track.
Have a great night and I will talk to you soon...
Julie
This surgery is women induced hyteria. Most people don't talk about regrets or complications and then you have the huge marketing of this 10 Billion $ industry. I am trying to convice my gf not to have it.
I have no clue why did you have it if you were able to lose 150 lbs on your own...
Of greatest concern are the effects of long-term nutritional deficiencies, which are rarely discussed realistically. The neurological decline and aging seen after bariatric surgeries is especially rapid and results from multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies, said Dr. Ernsberger. Both the stomach and small intestines are critical for absorbing many nutrients, including B-vitamins, calcium, iron, vitamin D and protein. Even taking supplements in multiple times the recommended amounts doesn’t help because the surgeries eliminate the proper function of the stomach and gastrointestinal system, he said. Hence, malnutrition problems are not uncommon, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and include anemias, osteoporosis, loss of teeth, blindness and, in a reported 16% of cases, even neurological and brain damage. We are seeing the return of nutritional deficiency diseases of starvation in formerly healthy fat people that had become rare in Western societies and are typically only seen in underdeveloped regions of the world.
I have no clue why did you have it if you were able to lose 150 lbs on your own...
Of greatest concern are the effects of long-term nutritional deficiencies, which are rarely discussed realistically. The neurological decline and aging seen after bariatric surgeries is especially rapid and results from multiple vitamin and mineral deficiencies, said Dr. Ernsberger. Both the stomach and small intestines are critical for absorbing many nutrients, including B-vitamins, calcium, iron, vitamin D and protein. Even taking supplements in multiple times the recommended amounts doesn’t help because the surgeries eliminate the proper function of the stomach and gastrointestinal system, he said. Hence, malnutrition problems are not uncommon, according to the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases and include anemias, osteoporosis, loss of teeth, blindness and, in a reported 16% of cases, even neurological and brain damage. We are seeing the return of nutritional deficiency diseases of starvation in formerly healthy fat people that had become rare in Western societies and are typically only seen in underdeveloped regions of the world.
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