How was your weekend

It was just ok.... I went to a dinner party that didn't have too many choices.... but navigated it fairly well.

I did have a few too many glasses of wine... so now I have to be good for a few days..

So how was your weekend? Any fun things?

CC

I worked. Night shift with and extra hour plus excessive amounts of halloween leftover candy around. I glad that run is over. It's sunny in Seattle today and I just got back from dragging the dog for a long walk.
I'm going to make Eggface bites for dinner with roast beef, onions, and mushrooms. I need to cook more.

Busy! Son (adult) at home with severely damaged ligaments (knee) and unable to move! Being very good patient but still lots of running around after him with ice packs!

I am being good, good, good at the moment! I don't ever set deadlines for myself and neither do I count cals etc.. And i don't do regular exercise! But over the last year I put on some weight, topping it off with a band leak! Total gain of 27lbs!

Then my children, bless them,. warned me that for my 60th birthday, they are taking me to a well-known Dept Store, booking a personal shopper and treating me to some clothes I wouldn't normally buy myself!

PANIC! At this size???

So I went for it. They told me on Oct 3rd, we shop on Nov 26th. I am counting everything even if I just smell it - never mind swallow it! I exercise EVERY day (well, nearly!). All of this is unheard of for me!

But it is working!!! 175 down to 156 this morning! So three weeks to go - 6lbs more is a possibility (remember, I am banded so slower loss generally).  Which will take me to 150, which is only 2lbs out of my comfort zone.

Keep your fingers crossed for me, friends! I need all the good wishes I can get - this is killing me!!!! What I would give for a nice bit of malabsorption right now!!!!

Kate

Good luck, it sounds like your doing great!  But I do have to tell you at 5 years out, hell at 2 years out the malabsorption part doesn't help with calories, just vitamins :(.

Enjoy your shopping spree, what nice kids you have!

Edie

So, Edie, on our nice new board where you are not going to think I am being negative about your surgery....

if most of you stop malabsorbing after a few years, do you still have restricted amounts you can phsyically eat, but now you absorb all of it? So a bit like we bandsters are? Smaller intake but our bodies use everything we eat? So do we end up in the same sort of place?

Kate

I didn't think you were negative, maybe uninformed about my type of surgery, but not negative at all.  I hope I didn't come off as mean spirited either, it was not my intention. 

To answer your questions, in the beginning malabsorption is for everything, protein, calories, vitamins....., but our lovely bodies start to adapt around the 18 month mark (they actually call the first 18 months the 'honeymoon' period) and our ability to absorb every calorie comes back :(, but not our ability to absorb vitamins and nutrients, that we will always have to work on. 

As far as consumption, we can stretch our pouches, just like everyone has/had the capability to stretch their stomachs, supposedly it's harder to do so but possible, just ask my hubby, he did.  One of the downfalls for our new anatomy is we no longer have a pyloric valve, it's the valve that closes the stomach so it can break down food prior to releasing it into the small intestine for nutritional absorption.  If we eat soft foods, or what we call slider foods, they go right on through, we don't feel full or get satiety from it,  but we absorbed every calorie, that's why it's so easy to regain after a couple of years.

HTH,
Edie

I didn't think you were negative, maybe uninformed about my type of surgery, but not negative at all.  I hope I didn't come off as mean spirited either, it was not my intention. 

Oh gosh, no - I just meant how nice it is that we CAN talk about things without the dangers of being thought negative!!

Thanks for the explanation!  Kate