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Congrats Judy on those 11 intervening years since your decision and wls surgery....you are much more healthy because of them despite your stress eating and regain. We all have a lifelong battle with food and the wls gives a tool to deal with it... Some mistakenly think the surgery is a magic bullet: have it, get thin and stay that way forever. Um, no, but you now have the upper hand in your lifelong battle. No one said it would be as easy as some of those who tell us we "took the easy way out". Our demons are still with us, but we can face them now... most of us relapse a bit, then take control again as we realize how strong we are.
Happy Surgiversary! Enjoy the health and energy it gave you!
Jen
Hi Judy,
congrats on 11years. Sorry that you are stress eating. I understand that. It is harder the further you get out. When my weight gets to a certain weight, I reign in my eating till I'm comfortable weight range.
Hello everyone...just wanted to stop in and say HI. Today it has been 11 years ago that I had my RNY and I have NOT regretted it one bit!!! I had at one point lost 164 pounds. Sad to say I am back up 50 right now. But I am still DOWN 114 of those 334 pounds that I was at 11 years ago!!! I am finding that my Stress eating is back with a passion. Seems to grow more as time goes on. Losing my Mom almost Six months ago didn't help. Having so called friends here (haha) no support from them when I really needed them...shame on them and THEY know who they are!!! They have me Blocked so I can't reach out to them at all. They have their little Private group on Facebook so they can gossip about everyone behind their back. Didn't know that did you? Yeah they do. Talk about Two-Faced. Oh well. Maybe someday KARMA will get them. Like I said...I was there for them in THEIR time of need.
Enough said.
A lot of people left, some I know why and others I don't know why. I'm going to a chili cook off party at my brothers house on Saturday night. Visit my dad on Sunday.
Good evening, Short week for me and a 4 day weekend! Weather here in Philly is cool and overcast, same for tomorrow. The weekend will be warm and sunny. Plans are to spend time with friends at a local park that has a lake and maybe window shopping. Will spend some time with the 20 something sons on Sunday. A bbq might be in order that day! Monday will be do some light cleaning and a load of wash. What 's your plan for the weekend?
Am almost ten years out, no bowel obstruction, and dont know of anyone who has.
Are you going to let fear of something that may never happen ( I'm saying not likely to happen, as not the usual)stop you from getting this Surgery?
Maybe you aren't ready for wls, but at the risk of sounding cruel , will you ever be if your fear of bowel obstruction in 3-5 years is so overwhelming? Do more research if it may help you decide one way or the other.
The NP said out of 3500 patients in the last 10 years she's seen 50 who needed iron infusion, and most of them were menstruating women. I'm more concerned about bowel obstruction, which can happen 3-5 years down the road.
Don't let the scaremongering put you off again. Older follks in general , not just wls individuals, have a higher rate of all kinds of events including heart attacks, cancer, whatever. And yes, some wls people, because they have less stomach to absorb natural iron from food, have to take an iron pill , in my case am one of those and Since I also eat less red meat, I take an iron pill every 2-3 days , it's no big deal. Others may need more iron more often, some even an infusion every few months worst case scenario. Don't let this put you off.
You Go Girl.
So happy to read this. I'm 66 and had an opportunity to go for RNY 6 years ago and was afraid so I walked away. I think now I could have been 6 years ahead if I'd gone for it then. Now I'm really ready for it. So sick of sleep apnea and the damned machine, sick of being so tied and having sore hips and feet.
today I had my first meeting with the nurse practitioner here in Kingston, blood work and ecg, then booked for dietitian and social worker st the end of the month. It seems to be moving so quickly I felt like my head was spinning all day. The NP said I'd have to go to Toronto because kingston has a very strict cut-off of 65, which is not the end of the world. She also said something that scared me : that folks overv65 have a higher rate of intestinal blockage and anemia years after surgery. The research I read says it's overall under 3%. Have any of you heard this? It raised a little trepidation.
