December, 2013 RNY Buddies
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So glad to have you here...and so excited for you for your big day tomorrow. Prayers to you and the surgery team. Can't wait to hear about your experience. Make some room on the bench for those of us coming behind.
:)
"It's not whether you get knocked down...it's whether you get up" -Lombardi
HW- 293
SW- 258 (12/30/13)
CW- 167 (8/24/14)
We have a lot in common. I may be 2 years older than you, but I have the hypertension, severe GERD, degenerative arthritis, and a few other issues.
I've been on a full liquid diet (self-imposed) since last month. I've lost enough weight that I don't need to do any kind of prep.
Good luck!
"Perseverance, secret of all triumphs." ~ Victor Hugo 
Highest weight: 290; Weight at Surgery: 231; Current Weight: 126 (as of most recent Sunday)
Your day will be here tomorrow. Im sending thoughts and prayers your way. You and swtrayn have started the trend. I will keep you in my thoughts tomorrow. Hope all is well and that you have a fast recovery.
Shannon
HW- 274 SW- 255 CW- 225.4 GW-125 39yr old 5'2"
Month 1-28.8 (including pre op)
Month 2- 16.8
Ok So I thought today was the 1st. I am a day behind. Same prayers and thoughts. And hopefully you are all done with surgery and everything went well.
HW- 274 SW- 255 CW- 225.4 GW-125 39yr old 5'2"
Month 1-28.8 (including pre op)
Month 2- 16.8
Swtrayn,
I just wanted you to know my prayers are with you tomorrow. May you have an easy surgery with no complications and a fast recovery. I will be thinking about you tomorrow. How exciting it must be to know this time tomorrow you will be on your way to the new you!!!!!!
Shannon
HW- 274 SW- 255 CW- 225.4 GW-125 39yr old 5'2"
Month 1-28.8 (including pre op)
Month 2- 16.8
Thank you so much! It's really not been too bad. Spending today and tomorrow getting all my ducks in a row!
Heya Neighbor. I've had much the same issues as you have with pre-surgery attitudes toward food and eating. My husband and I jokingly refer to it as a "bucket list" of things I want to eat before I can't eat them anymore! I've always been a food lover, and have become a semi-gourmet cook over the years, but the only focus I've had has been toward how enjoyable the end product was to eat and not to how healthy it was for me.
Anyway, I've come to terms with my decision to not "buckle down" more before surgery. Everyone is going to come at this thing with a different mindset, since we're all different in personality. For me, it's a question of how committed I am to making changes once the surgery takes place, and the answer to that is TOTALLY. I'm not doing anything different at this stage, but on one set day, everything will change and be totally different. And I'm ok with that. I'm the kind of person who does well with hard deadlines, however, and with making changes from a certain point. I just never have been able to apply that to my eating habits, to be honest. The surgery is the one factor that will be different, and necessary, this time around. At that point I will have my memories of yummy foods I've eaten in the past, and a new life to create that will revolve around being as healthy as possible. A whole new way to cook and prepare food, and a different emphasis on exercise and other healthy living choices, will flow pretty naturally from the big red stop sign that surgery will provide IMO.
Long story short, if you feel similarly about your post-surgery life, then I wouldn't worry too much about what you're doing now (as long as you do follow any recommendations or requirements of your surgeon, of course). What works for someone else may not work for you, and vice versa. Maybe using this time before your surgery to research and plan the changes you're going to make would help you feel better about things? I know that's been very helpful for me.
Good luck!
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
Just a couple more days, Janice! You can do it! I hope the liquid diet has gotten easier for you. Remember, it's all worth it in the end. I hope your surgery all goes well, and that you're comfortable and happy afterward. Best wishes!
Dottie, tomorrow's your surgery, yay! I'm sure you're excited, and maybe a little nervous, but you have everyone here pulling for you. Here's to smooth sailing, easy recovery, and having to buy new underwear soon and often! 
I started all this back in May, when I had a personal emotional crisis about my health and my weight and decided that I'd take the plunge and do weight loss surgery. I'd looked into it several times in the past (I'm 54 and have always been overweight, since childhood) but always rejected the idea as too radical. At this point, however, I have high blood pressure, diabetes that I'm unable to control well, arthritis in my hips and knees as well as mild GERD and a few other minor things. Weight loss will help all the above as well as helping me feel more comfortable in my own body. At 345 pounds, I can barely walk up a flight of stairs, and I'm way too young to be that immobile and sick.
I had to do six months of nutrition counseling, per my insurance company. You know, because as a 54 year old adult, the idea of a diet had never occurred to me. /sarcasm But now that that's all finished, I've completed a psych evaluation (Note: Do not get a copy of your psych evaluation if you're at all sensitive about how other people perceive you, LOL!) and all the nutrition counseling, the pre-op testing is mostly done and my primary care physician has given her approval for surgery. I have my final appointment on the 11th for the last of the pre-op tests, meeting with anesthesiology, etc. That day I'll start a week of clear liquids, and on the 18th is my surgery.
I'm committed to the changes I need to make, but I seriously need the surgery to help me with the jump start. Unfortunately I've been treating all this time leading up to the surgery as time to fulfill an eating "bucket list" of sorts. I've always been a foodie and a cook, and now I have to leave a large part (no pun intended!) of my life behind. Things will be very different for both me and my husband, and while I'm looking forward to forging a new and healthier relationship with food I'm still kind of in mourning for all the things I'll no longer be able to eat, but I have to face the fact that if I'd like to live long enough to see my son establish himself in his life and spend some time with my wonderful husband (we're both on our second marriages), then it's what has to happen.
It's a good thing I have a stubborn streak; once I set my mind to something it WILL happen. And my mind is definitely set.
I'm not sure how much I'll be participating here, but I'm glad to have found a bunch of people who are in the same boat I am, that's for sure!
