Good Morning. Ever wonder about 10 years post-op?

I guess they prepare you differently depending on your surgery type and your starting weight but have you wondered how things will be in 10 years from your surgery date? I'm hoping they develop better vitamins or at least better/easier delivery options. I wonder if I will be totally turned off by protein shakes by then. Will every carb I touch turn to fat by then? Can I stay low carb for life as my surgeon suggests? Damn carbs are so easy and cheap. If I end up in a nursing home is that all they'll feed me--carbs? What about my vitamins then? lol I'm up way to early with too much time to think. 

Y'all have a great Wed.

--gina
  

I saw a commercial for a retirement home the other day and thought this same thing. They showed the buffet-style meals they serve and I wondered if people would think I was weird because I could only eat a few ounces of food when I am an old lady. I also wonder if I am totally done losing (I'm on my monthly "stall" right now and doing my usual freak out). I ate a small handfull of baked lay's yesterday and am up .4 pounds. Will I have to stay under 30 carbs a day forever? My calorie intake is still extremely low, but I worry if I go up I will gain. Did my body get used to >600 calories a day and this is how low I need to be to maintain? Can I eat the same foods day in and day out for the rest of my life or will I get sick of it? Maybe I get up too early too. I got up at 4:30 to run, but it is pouring down rain and I might melt (or ruin my iPod).

 I work as a caregiver while I'm finishing up nursing school, and the facility's food services operate more like a restaurant.  You order from a short menu, and can make substitutions, get half-orders, and take doggie bags back to your room.  No worries!  There will be options when you're old (but still hot and skinny)!

Glad your facility is so well run.  I understand a lot of such places do not offer that kind of service.  My friend is in one that does not offer such good services. I guess it depends on the quality (and price) of the place you end up in.  I have bought long-term insurance and have told my kids they had better put me in a first-rate place.  My DH has pointed out that maybe I will end up with in-home care.  

Sorry to sound so morbid.  I realize most of you 'lightweighters' are young and have more important things to worry about that assisted living and long-term care.  Really I am not too worried about it either.  Think I will go for a walk and count my blessings.  

Ruby
3/2005 rny
262/125/140
hi/lo/today         

 You know, I have to say that being young, I am fully aware of the fact that by the time I am old enough to need services, there won't be any money left and I will be on my own.

When I was a runner, 150 yrs ago, I remember dreading it when I looked out and it was raining but loving it when I was actually out there running in it.  Not running now but I do occasionally still drive the ponies when it is raining.  They think I'm crazy, but of course, they have no aversion to standing out in the rain to graze..

 OH yeah...  I just think of middle - aged spread, of the inevitability of continuing this futile and unwinnable fight FOREVER ... and want to tear what remains of my hair out ...

LISTEN, I am NOT some beastie to be put on an exercise wheel and left there for an hour or more a day ....I DESERVE  a rich life filled with yummy food, with being and feeling beautiful , with lovely clothes and smack- you -in the face obnoxious bouncing health ...

I want my life to revoilve around my artistic output and NOT an ongoing and FUTILE battle keeping my gosh darned WEIGHT down..... 

OK I DIDN"T win the genetic lottery.....but darn it I am hardworking  and resourceful enough to figure out how to fix things now and GIT R DONE .

And  I Intend to ....ASAP 

Wow Gina, those are pretty deep thoughts for early in the morning!!

I don't think I've thought about 10 years out.  I have thought about 3-4 years because that is when I want to retire.  I've wondered how different my life will be since I had this surgery than it would have been if I had not.  Hopefully, I'll be able to do all the things I could only wish for before.

They'll probably have some type of WLS that does not even require open or lap and probably be done in the doctors office!!  I waited as long as I could for the magic pill that would make me lose weight but it never came.

I hope some of the surgeons watch their patients over the next few years and learn from them on what really works for them and not try and make everyone fit into the same program.

Linda

10 years., from 1994. Well, I lived to be 10 yrs older. My ex died of his obesity in 96. My grandson was born in 98.

I'd been dx with osteoporosis, but my comorbs and early nutritional difficulties were way behind me by then. I was holding my correct wt, after 2 bumbles into sugar and unbumbling myself.

20 yrs is now only 4 away. I don't see my i a nursing home. Yet. I still love my protein (crave it), still would prefer fudge bathed in butter cream frosting, but don't eat it, but otherwise eat pretty much what I want.

I do see myself potentially dying morbidly obese of malnutrition, should I be placed into any care run by the medical professionals of today. And that's with familial intervention if I can't intervene for myself.

That's pretty grim. BUT, OTOH, I'd have died morbidly obese of malnutrition in my 40's had I not had WLS. And I'd blissfully have eaten the billion carbs per day assuming that Medical Professional deifies the Owner of said Title.

Gina, I read you post this morning but just got to answer.  I am 65 so the thoughts you brought up really hits home with me.  I have a friend in an assisted living home.  She is unable to keep any OTC or vitamins in her room.  She has to depend on her Dr to prescribe anything she needs and the home personnel to get it to her.  She is diabetic and the home serves too many carbs.  She has all her all mind functions, so she trys to make good decisions icw her food.  Her daughter brings her fresh fruits and keeps her refrig supplied to help with her diet.  If I end up in this kind of situation, I will have no one to help me -- Children live out of town.  Husband is 12 years older than me.  I have bought long-term care insurance trying to provide care for myself.  I know I should not worry and have faith but...

A later poster (can't remember her name) commented that she wants more out of life than exercising and watching what she eats.  I agree.  Even after five years, my life is still controlled by wls.  Of course, I am thankful, but...  I try not to worry about the future too much and to have faith.       

Ruby
rny 3/2005
262/125/140
hi/lo/today