Who is maintaining weight loss over 5 years and what surgery did you have?
Even though I haven't been around on this board for a while, I've never, ever seen such negative posting from both sides. This BMI 50+ board was always positive and supportive and when someone touched a nerve, they were just ignored.
This kind of stuff turns people off and for those of us who start at over 50 BMI, it's a long, tough road.
To answer the question of the original poster, I'm almost 2.5 years out and am still losing after RNY surgery. I plan on continuing on this path for another 30-40 pounds.
This kind of stuff turns people off and for those of us who start at over 50 BMI, it's a long, tough road.
To answer the question of the original poster, I'm almost 2.5 years out and am still losing after RNY surgery. I plan on continuing on this path for another 30-40 pounds.
kathsum
I spent many years being angery like this person. I had family member who dead after having weight loss surgery. I wanted to blame the surgery. My brother dead three years after having weight loss surgery. But, The abuse his body took from years of being over weight since he was a child. His weight took years off his life. He dead at 43 weighing 550 plus ? pounds. He did lose weight after surgery. But, put most of it back on. Before he dead. The knee damage and He suffered with pain back from being over weight which stopped most of his activity. Towards the end of his life.
His weight had been killing him all of his life. My brother at two different times had lose over two hundred pounds. My whole family suffered from obesity are whole lives. I watch my father and brother die of congestive heart failure due to their extreme weight problems. My father died at 49 years old his weight about 360.
I am fighting to stay alive here. As are many of the people on this site. I have chosen to have this surgery not because I want too. But, Because I have to stay alive for neices and nephews. But, Mostly for myself. I have never known what it is like to be a normal size. I would happy if was just under two hundred pounds. If new how to get without the surgery.
I would do it.
I am 362 pounds and 5,2". I have tried every way to lose weight. My top weight was 395. I could not breath at night. I got better with exercise. But, In no way my body going to let me lose the weight without the surgery and a lot of hard work. I had to lose eighty pounds before my surgent would even think of doing surgery. I still have 30 pounds to lose in two months to act like that is a small acomplishment. When it is the hardest thing I have to do in my life. I am still not sure I can do it. It makes me so mad. I fought with dying of having sugery. I known people who died after surgery. But, I also known people who have died from being over weight too. I have two sister who are also over weight. One of my sisters a nurse and told the worst cases to come in to the E.R.
But, weighting in my options. and having bury my brother. I had decide to still have the surgery. Which scares me to death. Every person has to make that decision for themselves. Because It is a life changing decision. It was not my life choice to grow up a fat child and put up with the abuse I had to deal with as a teenager growning up in a America. Or to even be a fat adult. I am work had everyday and eating right and still not losing. Plus the odds of my ever losing weight are even harder how that I am 39 years old my youth is total over much of it wasted because. I was over weight. Because I have never gone out on a date or had very many friends.
To answer your question is possible because every person is different and has a different person life story. I have known people have gone on to have normal life but, Their is know normal life after surgery. Your life changes forever. You have to know that before you even think of have the surgery or even suggesting weight lose surgery to someone else.
No one here needs another person to try to shame them into not having the surgery. Life is hard enough as it is. I love the commit about it being all long tough road for people with BMI over 50.
Shaming people and hurting them get you nowhere. You can,t shame a person into being a thin person. Believe you me it been tried many times.
His weight had been killing him all of his life. My brother at two different times had lose over two hundred pounds. My whole family suffered from obesity are whole lives. I watch my father and brother die of congestive heart failure due to their extreme weight problems. My father died at 49 years old his weight about 360.
I am fighting to stay alive here. As are many of the people on this site. I have chosen to have this surgery not because I want too. But, Because I have to stay alive for neices and nephews. But, Mostly for myself. I have never known what it is like to be a normal size. I would happy if was just under two hundred pounds. If new how to get without the surgery.
I would do it.
I am 362 pounds and 5,2". I have tried every way to lose weight. My top weight was 395. I could not breath at night. I got better with exercise. But, In no way my body going to let me lose the weight without the surgery and a lot of hard work. I had to lose eighty pounds before my surgent would even think of doing surgery. I still have 30 pounds to lose in two months to act like that is a small acomplishment. When it is the hardest thing I have to do in my life. I am still not sure I can do it. It makes me so mad. I fought with dying of having sugery. I known people who died after surgery. But, I also known people who have died from being over weight too. I have two sister who are also over weight. One of my sisters a nurse and told the worst cases to come in to the E.R.
But, weighting in my options. and having bury my brother. I had decide to still have the surgery. Which scares me to death. Every person has to make that decision for themselves. Because It is a life changing decision. It was not my life choice to grow up a fat child and put up with the abuse I had to deal with as a teenager growning up in a America. Or to even be a fat adult. I am work had everyday and eating right and still not losing. Plus the odds of my ever losing weight are even harder how that I am 39 years old my youth is total over much of it wasted because. I was over weight. Because I have never gone out on a date or had very many friends.
To answer your question is possible because every person is different and has a different person life story. I have known people have gone on to have normal life but, Their is know normal life after surgery. Your life changes forever. You have to know that before you even think of have the surgery or even suggesting weight lose surgery to someone else.
No one here needs another person to try to shame them into not having the surgery. Life is hard enough as it is. I love the commit about it being all long tough road for people with BMI over 50.
Shaming people and hurting them get you nowhere. You can,t shame a person into being a thin person. Believe you me it been tried many times.
Doris Cervenka
Thanks for saying that Doris. I can literally feel the pain you have felt.
All the arguing aside, I think sometimes we forget about how emotionally painful morbid obesity is aside from all the physical restrictions and co morbidities.
I read a quote once that said Be kind to everyone you meet because everyone is going through something.
I even went and read the original poster's profile and I see she has been through her own challenges and perhaps that is why she is coming across so rudely.
Big hugs to everyone, sheesh...we all have really been through enough, no reason to come on here and argue!
All the arguing aside, I think sometimes we forget about how emotionally painful morbid obesity is aside from all the physical restrictions and co morbidities.
I read a quote once that said Be kind to everyone you meet because everyone is going through something.
I even went and read the original poster's profile and I see she has been through her own challenges and perhaps that is why she is coming across so rudely.
Big hugs to everyone, sheesh...we all have really been through enough, no reason to come on here and argue!
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