2.5 years out I should be ashamed!

Hey ya'll! Not sure how many of you will remember me . Lots of new faces around here! 

Long story short had my DS in September 2010, I've lost 155 lb and holding steady there. The first year I did great following all the rules. And was a good little DSer. Then life got ahold of me I guess. I got pregnant just shy of my year surgiversary. Struggled to keep my labs up then. Now I've all but fallen off. I'm hit or miss with my Vitamins, and my protein intake is nearly null other than food. I've been telling myself over and over to get it together. Since my daughter was born April 2012 my Iron is struggling. Vitamin D not so great. and honestly I am afraid to see my latest labs. Which i will have drawn next month. And to top it all off I noticed my hair thinning out again. I am going to just take a guess and say my protein levels are a joke!! 

Before my DS I didn't take very good care of myself always put others before myself. After my DS I decided it was time for ME, I had to put a little more effort into my health! Recently I am finding myself going back to putting myself on the back burner. A single Mom of 3 I work full time, run my house hold and worry about school and appointments for the kids. While all of this is important and needs to be done, I MUST stop and do what I NEED to do to keep myself healthy! I know how important my vitamins are. I made this commitment when I decided on the DS. 

So this is me stepping up taking responsibility and holding myself accountable. I KNOW I need to be here I need other DSers.  I moved back to South East Michigan and honestly I have yet to meet another DSer around here. I get looked at like I have a third eye when I explain my surgery. So here I am where I need to be!

I'm glad you came back and are serious about taking care of yourself. I was just reading about a woman that stopped taking her vitamins and protein and ended up blind and in a nursing home. Of course all the idiot docs are blaming the DS and not her own noncompliance.

Anyway, let's get you back on the straight and narrow. The hair thinning could also be low iron and if you're trying to do all that you are responsible for with no help, you need your iron levels at peak. Please keep hooked in here with us and let us know if you need any specific kind of help.

--gina

I live right by you!!  I also have three kids!  I am on my way to west acres library right now to meet a friend but I will touch base with you later.

Btw I used to live on Brendel lake in White Lake.

Good for you for shaking yourself out of your funk.   At least you are aware of what you are not doing so it will be easier to get organised and increase your protein NOW.......  Good luck and keep posting

YAY!!! A real live DSer !! 

Welcome back - and thanks for the reminder to go take another dose of vitamins.

I know it is hard.  I don't have kids and it is still hard.

I set aside the time once a month to sort vitamins for a month.  Then I see what needs ordering or buying for the next time and order/buy then so I will have it when the next sort is done.

I sort out my middle of the day vites at night before I go to bed.  I take 4-5 doses of Calcium, Magnesium, Potassium and D during the day and I have to use a timer to remind me or I will forget.

I just eat protein.  Today I had a double cheeseburger with mayo on the side..no bread.  I had an atkins bar and tonight I will have some left over chili with sour cream and tons of cheese.  Then Greek yogurt mixed with SF jelly and splenda for a snack.

I hope you can do this turn around because it sounds like your kids need a mother. 

~Becky

Good for you for coming back home.  The first step is awareness.

Who are you telling about the surgery?  Doctors??  Anyone else, why tell?

Yes Doctors. Most say they have "heard" Of the DS but completely unfamiliar. I Also have had to explain to co- workers or chose to rather. When i returned to my long time job after a 18 month break in which time I had surgery and lost 100#. I am not ashamed of my surgery at all. And I don't mind explaining. It gets a little embarassing when a coworker tells a family member or one of our traveling nurses or Dr's about my weight loss. And My "gastric bypass" At which time I feel the need to correct them and elaborate. 

Glad you came back, where you can get the "real dope" on the DS!

Please. please step it up quickly!  Non-compliance like you described can take you *out* in a slow and painful death!

Not trying to scare you, but that is the single thing that keeps me on track! 

I had a bit of a malnutrition issue six months ago,  got sloppy due to my Mom's decline and passing, but everything's fixed now.