2 years post-op and I've lost my son!!

Two years post-op, down 126 pounds from my highest weight.  This is about the same weight as my son in this picture......  Frightening.

Off insulin for 18 months.  Was on 480 units a day at one point.  Now on Sitagliptin and Metformin plus one low dose tablet for blood pressure and another for lipids.  The only supplement I take is a multivitamin and mineral tablet once a day.  Bloods are normal.  Sleep Apnoea gone, I'm officially cured.

Stable weight for the last six months.  I wake up feeling fat, believing that the weight loss is too good to be true.  I find myself buying clothes that are slightly too big, just in case.  It's very difficult buying an XL or more usually an L when a 5XL used to be tight.  You can see the shirt and suit are too big in the picture.

I still have good restriction and have turned into a grazer rather than a trencherman.  The only vegetables I can eat are peas and sweetcorn cooked, and raw carrot.  Carbohydrates of any type are my enemy, if I eat any I need to eat more.  The only way to control the urge is to eat no carbohydrate except for Ryvitas with cheese.  Most fruit will make me vomit.  LOL 

Two downsides.  I mourne not being able to eat vast quantities of food, I used to put way too much on my plate.  Sunday lunch comes for me on a side-plate now, and sometimes that's too much!  I'm also cold almost all the time.  I'll wear two windproof fleeces and thermal underwear for three seasons of the year, occasionally wearing a sweat shirt over a t-shirt in the summer.

Would I do it again?  Before the op I had a young son, a worried wife and maybe five years to live - tops. Life expectancy is now normal. I can walk with my family and they find it hard to keep up with me, my body is a joy and not a prison. This year Alex has asked me to take him fishing, which will be easy and a great joy.  I'd do it again tomorrow, and yesterday, and today! I wish I could have had the operation twenty years ago.

 That is fantastic and I am so delighted for you and your family. Enjoy x

Haven't you come a long way!  Brilliant!!

The results of the operation mean that it's not an easy option, but boy does it work.  Enjoy the new you (and the New Man).

 Thank you and yes I'm loving my new man!

well done and my new life starts 27/3 I hope

32 lbs gone already pre-op looks pretty good to me!  Best of luck and keep in touch, maybe there's life in this old site yet... 

I don't understand why there are so few users here but so many poeple in uk seem to be having this done
 

That is an inspiring story