01-15-2010, 09:44 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Oklahoma City, Okla USA
Posts: 2,549
Weight Statistics 05/17/02 Start Date:
05/17/02 Surgery Date:
5' 5"
Height:
355 lb Start Weight:
190 lb Current Weight:
175 lb Goal Weight:
165 lb Weight Loss:
15 lb Lb Left to Lose:
46.4788732394 % % Lost:
Body Mass Index59.0686390533 BMI Start:
31.6142011834 BMI Current:
29.1183431953 BMI Goal:
Weight Loss MethodRoux en Y Gastric Bypass
 |  Post WLS food plan for life--NOT a diet!
I've run into this thinking a lot lately with tons of people, whether it be people I've met in 'real life' or online.
I just want to be sure that pre and newly post ops understand. Our Post WLS food plans are for LIFE, they are NOT:
-a diet
-just until "i lose all the excess weight"
-just for the 1st year
-only until I am thin and then I can eat "normal" again
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This surgery is about changing our lives for good. To step out of that hugely obese body that we created with our own choices and mistakes that got to a point where there was no turning back. We hid in our bodies from the world.
It's not about an 'easy road' either. This surgery, whether it is OPEN or Laproscopic is MAJOR SURGERY. We risk our lives in order to change them. But beyond the surgery it is up to US and not the doctor's staff, the nutritionist if we don't follow the rules. Or worse were not clear about what is expected long term.
I'll be 8 yrs post op in May. It never gets 'easy'. It's hard work having to face up to the behaviors that got me to this place in the beginning. Therapy is and should be in my opinion a long term part of the 'tool' of WLS. We have to face up to our lives head on and deal with them, forgive ourselves and be willing to CHANGE from that point of surgery on.
It is SO worth it this surgery!!
We can only succeed moment to moment. Plus we NEED each other. The further you get down the road of WLS..does it get easier? Nah, the 'honeymoon' wears off and life steps in to try and knock ya down in mulitudes of ways.
For me, my long commitment to Christ, my Lord and Savior, my FAITH is what has gotten me through and kept me here. If I didn't have that I would never have survived what all I have been through and still be sane, much less be alive!
There will be days you wish you could eat 'like i used to, just once, for one day'..to try and just get lost in that stuffed feeling that food used to do. To feel that 'drunk from food' feeling again. There will days you want to NOT eat to punish yourself for messing up. There will days you wish you hadn't had surgery. There will be those wonderful days where you accomplish something physically that you would never have done pre op and you are so HAPPY you made the choice you did.
It's a continuing process and one worth taking. Just be educated about your new body, the requirements for LIFE and keep getting support in your life in a --POSITIVE-- way!
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(Spring 2004)
(lowest body weight/size) --BREE
- Strength in body is fleeting, but MY strength is from the LORD whose strength never weakens...
--------------------- open RNY 5/17/2002 -166 lbs(-200 at lowest) 8 years post in May 2010
Open major abdominal surgery 4/6/2010 for internal hernia release, extensive scarring removal & Appendix removal
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