I love my Duodenal Switch!

Umm... yeah... no.

I'll be nice and honest - My exercise was and is sporadic.

I got a trainer at 3 months out and worked out fiercely for 2 months straight.  It plateaued my weight loss so I stopped.  Dropped a lot of weight, then stalled out again.  Exercised again and I gained weight.  Stopped exercising, dropped more.  Now I started exercising and my body seems to be having the "right" reaction to it.

My point: Everyone's body reacts differently.  Mine is so strange with exercise.   The DS provides such amazing results.  If you have to start, stop, start, stop - Hey... do what you gotta do to get results. 

 Congratulations Janine! Looking good. I'm planning a trip to Dr. Sauceda myself over the holidays.
Keep up the great work!

Lia

Lia,
Come join us over on Dr Sauceda's group here.  Click on Dr Sauceda in my siggy line.

You look wonderful. I too followed your videos and you are such an inspiration. I often wondered about your progress. Glad to know everything is working out in your favor. The DS is a wonderful tool and I wouldn't trade it for anything. I am almost 2 yrs out and still losing. My scale at home says I'm currently down 160 lbs from 318. All I really want and need from plastics are some porn star boobs! : )

Dr Sauceda does great!  We call our new bewbies "Saucedas"

Glad to see you posting! You look amazing and just sooo cute:) Congrats on such an amazing journey xoxoxo

You look absolutely incredible. Of course, before and after!!!!

 You already know I love ya, but woo hoo! Hot mama!  ;-)

You rock that DS!

Hi,
I am pre-op and I have been reading many blogs about horrible gas/bowel movements with the DS. I am a teacher and very concerned with this issue. Can you tell me if this has been a problem for you and if not, why do some people have it and others do not?
D

Well... define "horrible" - Horrible smell, horrible frequency, horrible quantity?

I can only explain my experience so far so here goes.

My gas (frequency) is little.  The smell is average to bad - not going to lie. 

My potty time is more frequent than it was pre-op and the smell is worse, but it's nothing unmanageable.  I go between 3 and 5 times a day (depending on what I eat).  Sometimes I only got twice a day, sometimes I go 6 times a day - again, it's all dependent on what I eat.

Why do some people have issues and others do not; Common Channel and Food Choices.

The longer your common channel the less sensitive your bowels will be to "trigger foods".  My common channel is 125.  Is this the case 100% of the time? No.  I know someone who has a common channel of 75 and nothing stops her from eating a "no-no" food.  Now, I'm not positive of her after-effects of that no-no food but it can't be so bad that it keeps her from eating it.

Food choices:  Some people are sensitive to wheat, gluten, rice, potato - a number of things.  The only thing that gets me is sugar and in large quantities.  But keep in mind that I was a revision patient, so my body got "eased" into the DS - it wasn't a shock for my body.  My stomach had a chance to go through "dumping" spurts before my intestines were done.  I didn't get kicked in the pool, per se , I tip-toed into the waters.

Being a teacher may be rough for the first month or two, because your body will be brand new to this surgery and you will not be familiar with how your bowels will react to everything you consume.  Also, it's not like you can tell the kids "Be right back" and leave the classroom.  The longer you can take off on STD the better.  It'll give you more time to recuperate and familiarize yourself with how your body is going to react to foods.

Just keep the flour and sugars as low as you can and you should be okay.  Make sure you take your iron; iron battles diarrhea really well.