Michelle,
It is so good to see you posting.  I was wondering where you went.  Congrats on your two years.  I am at 18  months.  Woo Hoo.  Oh, and I am also 6 years out.  I, too, lost a bunch of weight over the summer and was absolutely amazed that my tool still worked.  I am now happily in a size 4 - I cannot EVER remember being this small.  Alot of people have moved over to the transfer addictions board.  I'm there too, but I still check here.  Kathy

Hi guys!  Wow what a difference a year makes!

I've lost about half of my post smoking cessating weight-gain - back down into my size 8's again - halelulia!  You know - it really *IS* about using our tool - no matter how far out.  It's been almost 6 yrs since my RNY - and the pouch stil does what it should if I do what I should!  (small bites, chew chew chew, no drinking with meals, dense proteins, 6 mini-meals a day, no grazing).  

I finally ended the relationship with the alcoholic boyfriend about 6 months ago - and it was so totally the right thing to do.  I've been really ok with it.

I'll be celebrating 2 yrs sobriety soon (this go round) and I'm helping others, working a good program and my life is good.

OHHHHH and the eldest child (who no longer lives with me) has made me a grandmother, so I've another wonderful blessing in my life!

Wow six years - if anybody would have tried to tell me the journey I would have back when considering surgery I would have never believed them!  I'm so tremendously grateful for progress instead of perfection!  It's the first time in my life I've been able to apply it as a philosophy!

I miss you guys' posts!  You've all been so instrumental in helping me with the weight and with the alcoholism.  Love you guys!

Michelle

I think this is a good forum to post them on.

Good Morning..

Today I am grateful..

For a warm leather jacket..

For a good nights rest..

For my job..

That I am a better man..

That I didn't lose it yesterday when my car was booted..

With rapid weight gain, there is a fluctuation in our hormone levels.  Fat stores hormones and as the fat is released from the tissues, the hormone is released into our blood stream.  Hormone fluctuations can cause mood changes.  It happens in men and women.

Talk to your psychiatrist about your current experiences with your mood, and see if a medication adjustment is in order.

Trish