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Goals

keep most of my hair :)

13 People
 in progress, 
9 People
 achieved this

lower my resting heart rate

0 People
 in progress, 
1 Person
 achieved this

lose weight!

4 People
 in progress, 
1 Person
 achieved this

reverse my Type 2 Diabetes

12 People
 in progress, 
18 People
 achieved this

reduce or eliminate my hemoroids

0 People
 in progress, 
1 Person
 achieved this
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Surgeon Testimonial

Eric DeMaria, M.D.
Dr. DeMaria has a significant amount of experience with Bariatric Surgery and in his position as Director of the Duke University Medical Center Weight Loss Surgery Program he trains other surgeons during their fellowship at Duke. The program that Dr. DeMaria directs at Duke is comprehensive and has a significant emphasis on aftercare which is comprised of medical, psychological and nutritional support at 3 wks, 3 months, 6 months and 1 year postop. I have found all of the staff, from the office, nurses, to the dietician to be helpful and available. I had my Lap-RNY 06-05-07. While Dr. DeMaria is without question very competent, he perforated my colon during the surgery. Normally this would require a conversion to an open procedure, but Dr. DeMaria was able to re-sect the colon laparoscopically. I have done well since my surgery and have lost all of my excess weight. I have talked with Dr. DeMaria at length about my concerns that while it is important for bariatric programs to provide a significant amount of support through the weight loss process, but that it is at least as important, if not more to provide significant support as you enter the maintenance phase of this life-changing journey. I'm delighted to say that he is a strong proponent of long-term bariatric aftercare and has opened a practice that focuses on the 'whole' bariatric patient in the long term; medical follow-up/management, nutritional support, psychiatric/behavioral support, and physiological/exercise. I hope this becomes a model to support the bariatric patient population.
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Barbara C.'s Journey

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was an overweight child and became an obese adolescent and adult. I experienced a huge weight gain on the occasion of my marriage, ballooning up to 217 pounds. Unfortunately, I have never been able to get and keep my weight under 225 for more than six months. In spite of multiple efforts at dieting including HCG shots, Weight Watchers, Grapefruit, Cabbage Soup, Cambridge, many over the counter diets (Dexitrim, Hoodia, etc.), Slimfast, Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, Hypnosis, Registered Dietician and Personal Trainer, Medifast, medically supervised VCL diet, Shaklee Shakes, Oprah/Bob Greene diet. With each attempt I have lost some weight, however when the diet effort stops, the weight comes back, often more. When I...
Barbara C.'s Blog
Barbara C.'s Blog


I had my 6 Month Check Up today
on December 12, 2007 6:30 pm

Good news. I'm ahead of the "curve". I've lost 69% of my excess weight. They consider you a bariatric success if you get to 60% by 1 year. They said to expect the weight loss to slow considerably ... I told them it already has. They said that normally you lose about 2/3's of your excess weight by 6 months and the last 1/3 during the next 6 months. They said that if all holds true I should have no problem getting to my ideal weight of 137 ... that said, they also said it's not necessary to go that low ... that most folks never do and that's fine.

I talked with them about my mind not really catching up with my body ... they said that's pretty normal too.

I got a b-12 shot. I'll continue with my multivitamins, calcium w/D and Prilosec. I'm to just stay the course ... They were pretty happy with me and I guess I am too.

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Six month anniversary
on December 4, 2007 7:14 am

So very much has changed in the last 6 months. I look different. But more than that, I feel different. I haven't felt this good in more than three decades. I know that having the surgery was a risky endeavor, but I truly feel that not having it would have been riskier.

I am delighted to have my type 2 diabetes resolved, have more energy and endurance than I have had in years.

I'm still struggling with "feeling" fat ... okay, may not so much fat as chubby ... but, I still really see the chubs I still have to lose. Sometimes, I see myself and I can hardly believe the slimmer, trimmer me. Other times, I see myself and I still see the chubs. I know that part of it is reality and part of it my head needing to catch up.

The weight loss has really slowed over the last 4 to 6 weeks; and while I "knew" that was to be expected, it is a little scary. I'm finding that I have to "work" at losing now; the weight doesn't just fall off. I'm hoping that I'll be able to lose somewhere between 15 and 25 lbs over the next 6 months.

I have to say that I am hopeful that I will be able to maintain my loss in the long term with the help my pouch and the new skills I've been developing.

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