TIME FOR A WLS GRADS ROLL CALL

1.  First name or name you go by on the boards -  sheekalala or sheila 2.  Surgery type---------------------------------------------   RNY 3.  Surgery date--------------------------------------------    8/31/04 4.  How far post-op----------------------------------------   2 1/2 years 5.  Highest weight-----------------------------------------   378 lbs 6.  Day of sugery weight---------------------------------   378 lbs 7.  Goal weight---------------------------------------------   200 lbs 8.  Current weight------------------------------------------ 150 lbs 9.  Low weight post-op----------------------------------- 150 lbs 10.  Biggest struggle as a post-op-------------------  eating right, taking my vitamins,no energy

1.  My name is Samar 2.  Roux-En-Y 3.  My surgery date September 06, 2002 4. I am  4 years and 7 months post op 5.  376lbs was my highest weight 6.  376lbs day of surgery 7.  Goal weight is somthing I still haven't reached yet, but maybe after my buttlift :) 8.  I currently weigh 168 9.  Low weight post-op was 159. 10.  Biggest struggle as a post-op is stopping my head hunger. Sometimes feeling like I can eat like I did post-op...getting sick and realizing I can't. And then doing the same thing over again even though I know I shouldn't.

 1. Wendy  2. RNY  3. 4/25/05  4. 2 years today  5. 255  6. 250  7. 130  8. 170  9. 166 10. Fighting old habits.....never ending battle!

1. Otto

2. RNY Gastric Bypass

3. 3/15/05

4. 25 months

5. 464

6. 452

7. 225

8. 214 9. Same 10. Getting over the guilt of letting myself live the way I did for all of those years!

1. First name - Joanne 2. Surgery type - LAP RNY 3. Surgery date - 12/16/05 4. How far post-op 16 months 5. Highest weight - 230lbs 6. Day of surgery weight - 230lbs 7. Goal weight - 125 8. Current weight - 120 9. Low weight post-op if different than current weight       - 118

10. Biggest struggle as a post-op - There are many times that I still don't see myself in the mirror that the scale sees me or my clothes see me. I refer to myself as an obese person in a skinny body. But that is true as I know I will never be fully recovered from this disease, just like an alchoholic who is sober but never recovered. My brain still has to catch up with my body. I stay focused every day in order never to go back, but just move forward.

1.  First name or name you go by on the boards: Mary M 2.  Surgery type: Lap RNY 3.  Surgery date: 07/09/2004 4.  How far post-op: 33 months 5.  Highest weight: 415 6.  Day of sugery weight: 408 7.  Goal weight: 185 - Doc's / 147-Mine 8.  Current weight: 154 9.  Low weight post-op if different than current weight: 152...before round 2 of plastics...just now getting back to exercising...looking forward to reaching 147 real soon. 10.  Biggest struggle as a post-op: I have gone through 2 major rounds of plastics...round 1 - body lift and breast lift...developed anemia. Round 2 - vertical thigh lift, arm lift, and augmentation.

1. Dianne

2.  laproscopic RNY

3.  4/15/04

4.  3 years post op

5. highest weight 342

6. surgery weight 342

7. goal weight 145

8. current weight 133

9.  Low weight 125

10.  Biggest struggle as a post-op (Maintaining a healthy body weight)

1.    First name or name you go by on the boards:  Betsy 2.  Surgery type:  RNY 3.  Surgery date:  5/7/03 4.  How far post-op: almost 4 yrs 5.  Highest weight: - 247 6.  Day of sugery weight - 247 7.  Goal weight: 130 8.  Current weight - 167 9.  Low weight post-op if different than current weight - 125  10.  Biggest struggle as a post-op:  Haven't been able to stop the gain that started at about 2 years out.  Just started Weigh****chers (was never successful before) but it providing structure for my eating; I am re-learning how to make better selections of low calorie/low fat foods that taste great!  I hopful this will work. 

1. First name or name you go by on the boards - Darlene 2.  Surgery type - Open RNY 3.  Surgery Date - 03/14/06 4.  How far Post-op - 13 1/2 months 5.  Highest Weight - 305 6.  Day of Surgery weight - 305 7.  Goal Weight - Doctor's 155, mine 145 8.  Current Weight - 161 9.  Low weight post-op if different than current weight - 161 10. Biggest struggle as a post-op - thinking that I wont be able to get the last 16 lbs. off before the fear of regain sets in.

1. First name or name you go by on the boards: Lisa

2. Surgery type: RNY

3. Surgery date: 4/11/2005

4. How far post-op: 2yrs and a few days

5. Highest weight: 317

6. Day of sugery weight: 314

7. Goal weight: 170

8. Current weight: 155

9. Low weight post-op if different than current weight: 153

10. Biggest struggle as a post-op: Gall bladder and herniated twisted bowel. Having a herniated twisted bowel is the worst ever!

I've had a great experence with this. Not many complications, only the one's listed above. Aside from the normal things that happen to most of us after wls things have never been better.