1,050,000 Calories PLUS Malaborbed or not eaten...I love my DS!!!!!

Well at the stroke of midnight tonight, it will be my 2 year surgiversary.   2 years of being "cured" of obesity, though the miracle of the duodenal switch.    I've currently lost 300 lbs, and have maintained just under my goal weight for the last 6 months or so.    There is a saying in personal fitness that says I lb is equal to 3500 calories, so if you want to lose 1 lb you need to not eat 3500 calories...well after losing 300 lbs I figure that I have either not eaten or malabsorbed over a million calories!!!!!!! (trust me it is more likely malabsorbed....lol).  I can't tell you how grateful I am to have had the DS.  You know 2 years seems to be the "turning point" for most surgeries......it's at 2 years that RNYers realize that they will have to "work their tool" for the rest of their lives, it's at 2 years that banders finally realize that band either will or  won't work for them...but at 2 years post DS, I can tell you my DS is allive an kicking!!!!!!   I LOVE MY DS!!!!!!  If you are a preop and considering a WLS...consider the DS. Scott

Wow!!! Great tale bmus! We're all proud of you lad - and share both your success & love of our own WLS!!! :-) Jim

Wow, congrats!

Beam me up Scottie, that is great news.  I am glad to see you are doing so well.  My only wish is that I hope you aren't going to start pulling the DS Bull **** card (about how superior DS is over everything else) and start telling all of us that the RNY is inferior to the DS?  Please lord don't do it.  They are all good surgeries if the person working the tool uses it appropriately, which you obviously are doing quite well to have lost over 300lbs.  Congratulations, I hope that I will also have some measured success, like you with your DS, with my RNY on 2/28/08.   At this point, its all about the RNY and nothing else.  Taz

Dude...I edited my post for this forum not to bring drama here.......you might want to edit yoru post to remove the names of certain individuals who I highly respect.........cause  1st it's rude and cowardly to post about someone who won't come on this forum to respond to you (because they actually recoginize that this is the men's forum) and 2nd cause it violates OH's TOS. Scott

I took the names out at your request.  Nothing personal, but I have been personally slammed many times, about those issues, by those two people who you respect so much.  I am not trying to start drama, I saw your post and it brought back memories of what they did and said to me within the last three weeks.  I hate to even see any mention of DS/RNY and how one is superior to the other.  Again, this was nothing personal against you - please don't make it out to be anything more than that.  I definitely wasn't trying to create drama - I made a suggestion and congratulated you fully about your success.  I got the idea that here on the mens forum, guys could share what they thought - without fear of repercussions from other fellow men forum members.  If that indeed is not the case, then we had all better look out because we will all be in trouble for what gets spilled out on the mens forum.  I guess everyone had best be on their best behavior, I certainly wouldn't want anyone getting in trouble, on the men's forum, for violating OH TOS by mentioning names or cussing or telling dirty jokes.  Taz

Congrats on your millionth calorie flushed down the toilet.

I can only hope that in time my own surgery will result in similar digestive incompetence.



Steve

Scott, Congratulations on your 2 year Surg-iversary. Having been in the Normal BMI range for over the past 3 ½ years myself, I’d say it just gets easier. Guys DO seem to have it easier when it comes to losing No matter the type of WLS. Keep up the Great Life! Best Wishes- Dx

Good deal man.  Congrats!

wooooooteeee wooo!  Congrats man!  I won't be losing 300 lbs but I'll be with ya on the malabsorption side soon I hope!