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I am 4 years out from my original RNY and almost 2 weeks out from my revision. I have been slowly eating again and can get my protein from tuna, fish, shrimps or protein shakes. If you find you are not eating 3 meals a day drink a shake. I have used generic brands as well as Unjury.

Congrats on being 2 months out! I also struggled in the beginning it does get easier. If you get that sick feeling it is your pouch saying enough!!! As for the hair thinning, take Biotin vitamins. I am surprised your surgeon did not mention that.

 Well said.  I agree with you that this surgery changes how you think about food.  As I have said to a few others on here... I read something that just sums it up for me that was posted by a fellow member on the OH site.  "We used to live to eat.  Now, we eat to live".  That has been so true for me.  I don't find the relationship with food to be so uncontrollable anymore... now I control the food.  I spend my free time looking for healthy recipes and changing those that I love into a way healthier version.  But I also spend more time on here, finding friends and building relationships, updating my food log and tracking every portion of food I put into my body watching especially for protein.  I have educated myself on whether a piece of food I am about to put in my body has a reason to be put in my body - what do I get out of it?  Its there protein?  What's the fat content? Does it have sugar?  I am here to tell you before surgery I had the biggest sweet tooth and lived on pasta.  My favorite pasta dish used to be one that carried OVER a days worth of calories and I never bothered to look at that before.  

I am very proud of your activity level and I know you must feel better.  I set my goal to start working out this week and I am looking forward to it.  I actually look forward to getting my bike at this end of this month.  Congrats on such wonderful achievements and results.  

I hope this finds you with BP and cholesterol under control and feeling much better.

I blew my knee out in 2010 and went down in my back twice - all three requiring someone to come take care of me for 2 weeks at a time.  I got tired of being taken care of like that and wanted my life back.  It was horrible to be stuck in bed for days because my body couldn't support my weight any more.

I wish you all the best.  I hope you join us on Tuesday.  

We are growing every week!!  :)

What do you look forward to or was a focus goal for you when you hit your goal weight?  Was there a dress you wanted to get in to?   A special date you wanted to go on with someone?  A girls weekend at the beach? 

So tell me ya'll...what has changed for you since surgery? 

How has Dr. Jawad changed your life? 

Don't forget to invite a friend of Dr. Jawad's to join the group!! 


~Mandi