Just stopping by!

Hi all,

Kat here- it's been a while and just wanted to see my peeps.  At only quick glance, major mom, roz...like old times!!! 

for newer peeps, I'm RNY 2008.  240 at surgery, lowest 135, current 147.  Every day is a battle, but generally I'm winning.  Fitness is still huge- my 147 and technically a BMI of about 26, I believe, wears a size 4.  I started prepping my meals on Sunday's for the week, through Friday.  I eat 4-5 meals a day.  I exercise 6 days a week, 1-2 hours a day.  I seem to be overboard on the weekend.  I meant to cheat...but...whoops!

anyway, I'm trying to lose 10 lbs over the next few months.  I'm hoping to find my mojo!

congrats to all of you, in all parts of your journey. 

❤️Kat

hi Kat and welcome back 

Always great to hear from a vet who is doing great.  Yes, regain is real but it seems you have kept in under control.

I agree with the fitness.  Even at 66, I do muscle pump 2x a week, ride and drive my ponies, do the work in the garden and barn.  RNY gave me my life back. 

Kat....It's Great to hear from you!!!!!!  It sounds like you are doing Good! 

There's only a few of us "leftovers" who post every day but we got a lot of newbies who need some guidance and I remember how much the "oldies" helped me out.   A lot of them have made the LW Facebook page their home.  Jody's still a regular poster.

Have you gotten your Vitamins Checked lately?  I screwed up and I have been skipping out on them and I am suffering consequences with low B-12 which has been causing me low white blood, hair loss, blurred vision, and memory problems. I thought my body would be absorbing enough meat products by now and apparently I was totally wrong.

Hi guys!!! Yay!!

roz- my doc doesn't do random testing, but auto prescribed b12 injections after surgery.  Fortunately, I was lucky enough to happen across aPA at my PCP office who used to work at an eating disorder clinic and she ordered compliment testing- I had never heard of it! Fortunately, most is Well.  Turns out I am zinc deficient.  I also get iron defficirncy anemia, but because insurance is ridiculous, I can only get an infusion when I'm anemic, and not preventatively  anyway, never vitamin issues but mineral issues for sure, long after  

Im actually very well...I have no feelings of having RNY. I wish I did because food is a challenge for me.  I wish I wasn't an addict but I am.  It's very much one day at a time.  Planning, etc.  

BUT...thAt being said, it remains by far, the best gift I've ever been blessed with.  And all of you were, and are still, part of that journey! 

Hi Kat - good to see you!  You are definitely an inspiration for any who has had or will have WLS.  You're commitment to exercise is phenomenal - makes me tired just seeing you post on FB about it ;)

I'm definitely fighting the regain.  I know what the culprit is and just need to kick it in the butt!

Hey chica! HAHAHA!! Good to see you are still on here and thanks for the exercise laugh.

I'm fortunate to have made a necessary evil- fitness- a second job. I don't make any money instructing when you factor in certifications, music, etc., but it forces me to be present and working out when people depend on me. I'm having a hard time keeping up with lifting the last month or so, but I'm still doing it on a less frequent basis.

I feel you on the regain. I actually gained a lot but lost a lot of it- not all of it- but I know I'm moving in the wrong direction again. I can't lve in limbo. I have to be super in control of my diet or else I get lost. It's so hard to get back to losing but I'm trying!!! I'm sure you are too since you are on here. Kudos to you!!! Here's to a lifetime effort.

Kat, I've seen you here before.  I should be here every day, but I'm here on and off.  My surgery was 7/8/2008 so I'm also 7 years out and my stats are very similar to yours.  I have no regrets about having the surgery, but my regret is not getting to the goal my surgeon set and I've regained 12-15 lbs. 

Seeing how well you've done is encouraging. 

Thanks, Jo! And don't have regrets! Most of us wish we lost more before the rebound. I know I do.   I remember ....for some strange reason...after about 5 months post, I ate about 1/3 of an egg white omelette and swore to myself j would never have more for breakfast- that I needed to fully realize how happy I was from weight loss.  And I was.  But if I felt that satisfied now, physically and emotionally, I still wouldn't eat more.  

I I figure a day with some forward momentum is the right path.  We both ended up here, so yay for us.  Here's to tomorrow, and another step in the right direction.