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  • Username: MLJ2012
  • Location: MA, USA
  • Member Since: 2/23/2012
  • BMI: 36.8
  • Surgery date scheduled
  • Surgeon: Dmitry Nepomnayshy
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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
It all started when I turned 12 or 13 (that was about 35 years ago). That's when I discovered Twinkies. Not your average discovery. We never had cakes, chips, or soda in our house growing up. It was then that someone thought it was a good idea to buy Twinkies. My older sister always had a weight issue (she is 4 yrs older) so they had to be hidden from her..so they went into the locked cabinet. Guess who had the key? Yup the responsible middle sister, it was my job after all to make dinner. They wouldn't miss one Twinkie, and I was right. This went on and then other secret eating habits developed. Older sister had a job, she would buy 1 pound bags of m and m's and eat those in one sitting..but she shared. On and on it goes. In high...
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One Week Out
posted on 7/29/12 6:31 pm
Is it really?  Wow a week since I've had my insides rearranged.  It is hard to believe and I still don't quite believe it is true.  I am still feeling great, getting walking in, all my fluids and protien.  This coming week is going to be exciting..I start soft protiens.  I said earlier this week that I feel like someone has pushed a 'restart' button on my life.  I remember decades ago thinking, if only I could start back a square one I wouldn't make the same bad eating decisions.  It never seemed realistic or possible, but here it is, my do-over.  I have learned a lot about myself so far in this journey.

My follow up appointment with my surgeon is on Wed. Technically I don't need someone to drive me but I do have a friend who said she could take me and it will be fun seeing her.  She recently rejoined WW a she too is overweight.  She knew that was what I was doing and how I lost over 40 lbs pre-op.  She doesn't know about the operation.  In an email last week she wrote how I was an inspiration to her and how she hoped that would keep her focused on doing well on WW again.  I haven't decided yet if I am going to tell her on Wednesday..it was my original plan to do so on the way to the appointment.  She is someone I can trust, so that is not a problem.  I don't want my future weight loss to misguide her as being solely attributed to WW and the gym. So I probably will tell her.

Tomorrow's activitity is to go through my clothes, I have a lot of them. I am getting rid of my 281 lb clothes now that I am more than 40 lbs lighter since that start day.  I have enough clothes to get me through the month of August (or at least until I start school on the 20th).  I believe I will need to obtain new clothes..lucky for me I left a lot of smaller sized clothing at my mom's house when I got married 15 yrs ago.  I expected that she got rid of those..she didn't.  I will be picking those up this week and seeing if any of them will work in the short term. Closer to the end of August, I will splurge (not too much) on new bras and a few pairs of pants, if I need them.  I am very lucky to have two friends, one who lost 38 lbs recently and has size 18-20 pants she'd love to give me, and another friend who has lost 17 lbs and is considering WLS to whom I can give my clothes to.  Shopping in your own closet is so much fun...I found a size 14 suit that I kept as a dream..my 12 yr old daughter wore the jacket in a play (she needed to be a conductor)..it was big on her as she is an 8/10..I think back into that suit is a goal..oh yeah...I guess I should set some of those:)


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