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to be in to a size 12 by my one year anniversary

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be healthy....surgery will help knees, back and glucose levels

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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
Before menopause I never really struggled with my weight. If I needed to lose weight, dieting with Atkins or just cutting back would work and I could usually drop the weight fairly quickly. However, upon entering pari-menopause at about age 45 everything changed. My fat distribution changed (I had back fat for the first time ever). Menopause was long and worse than puberty for me. Finally after seven years the docs got my hormones settled and I was able to lose a good deal of the 70 lbs. I had gained. I dieted and was truly conscientious about exercise and food for the next seven years. Then in 2007 I quit smoking and within 3 years all of the weight I had lost plus some came back. It was a dreadful three plus years. My daughter had Bariatric...
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  • Comment by amelzon on 10/5/11 5:23 pm
    hope all went well with your surgery!! C:
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Two weeks tomorrow
on October 18, 2011 8:07 am
I can't believe how the weight just seems to be falling off.  From my heaviest (ever) two weeks before surgery I have lost 18 lbs.  That is 18 lbs in less than a month which is just amazing to me.  Since surgery it is an 11 lbs. loss.  I see my surgeon in two days and can't wait to see what my "official" loss will be.

So far I feel great.  I do have trouble getting in all of my protien shakes, taking all my vitamins and getting down all of my water each morning before work, but so far so good.  I hope the doc will do some blood work so I can see if I'm getting the right amount of vitamins each day.  Because of my age, I worry about the calcium and B-12. 

I'm very happy that I have had the surgery.
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Can't believe the difference
on October 10, 2011 6:35 am
It is Monday morning, I've been up for several hours and I feel wonderful.  I'm amazed at the difference between Saturday and yesterday and today.  Yesterday was the first day I felt "normal" and today is even better.  Have my follow up visits with my PCP and my Bariatric surgeon made for the next two weeks.  I'm getting in my vitamins and protien (although at this point it is an all day job).  The only little glitch I've run into is having to use a suppository yesterday, but it worked and I felt great afterward.  So, so far so good.....I'm a happy camper.
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Home and sore
on October 8, 2011 7:08 am
Good Morning all....I came home last night and I'm very sore.  I've had many surgeries in my life time and this has been one of the roughtest.  My daughter, who had the surgery 18 months ago, just left and said I seem to be having a more difficult fourth day than she did.....I think it probably has something to do with my age.  Just trying to keep up with all the vitamin, protien and water requirments....it's a lot especially when I just want to sleep most of the time.  But, I have great faith that the rough part will be over soon and I'll be on to a happier better quality life.
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