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  • Name: Roxanne C.
  • Username: shrinking_rn
  • Location: USA
  • Member Since: 1/15/2009
  • BMI: 24.0
  • Post Op
  • Surgery Type: RNY (08/17/09)
  • Surgeon: Armando Joya
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Goals

Shave legs easily

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be able to look at myself in a mirror and like what I see.

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Feel Attractive again

58 People
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Turn heads when I walk into a room

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lose 100 pounds

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Century Club Member!!!
on March 23, 2010 12:46 pm
Over the past couple of weeks my weight loss total hit 100 pounds!  YES!!!!  It was right around the 7 month mark, too.  The loss is coming along slower as I have less to lose.  I stepped on the scale yesterday morning - 168.7!!!  I couldn't believe my eyes.  I haven't weighed this little since my daughter was about 1 or 2 years old.  I am so exhilirated and so inspired, confident... I can't even put into words how it felt to see that number on the scale and think --- "Holy shit (pardon the language, but we're all adults) I'm almost at goal."  I was so stunned that I had to get out a calculator to figure out how much I had to lose before I hit my goal. LOL!  It just keeps coming right along, this morning it was 168.1.

Best decision I've ever made.  And for those of you reading this that are thinking about Mexico for your surgery, or have turned the idea off completely, let me assure you, going to Mexico and having my surgery done by Dr Joya was the BEST thing I have ever done for myself healthwise.  I was fortunate enough to find him, and he changed my life.

I've almost got my old life back, and I have him to thank for it!
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Slacker...
on February 23, 2010 10:47 pm
Since my last post I've only lost an additional 17 pounds, and I feel like I've been slacking and maybe eating things I'm not supposed to.  BUT I've lost over 90 pounds total!  Yay me!!!  It's been kind of difficult, I'm back in school full time but I'm still managing to eat right, so I'm only assuming that the weight is coming off slower because there is less fat to lose.  I'm down to 180 and everyone says that I look great, but I've still got 25 to 30 pounds to go before I reach goal.  I was thinking about that the other night and stunned myself when I realized that I'm almost there.  ONLY 30 POUNDS LEFT??!!?!?!  I can't wait!
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What a journey...
on December 28, 2009 7:19 pm
It's been a wild ride, that's for sure.  Since I had my RNY done barely over 4 months ago, I am down over 75 pounds.  I feel better, which is the most important thing to me.  I look better, I've gone from a size 22 or 24 pants down to a 14 that is a 'comfortable snug' fit...  And I've still got several sizes to go, apparently.  I'm now down to 194 pounds, I'm just happy to be below 200 again!!!  Wooo-hoooo!  I've still got maybe 30, 40 pounds that I would like to shed to be a healthy, thin size again.

I'm so glad that I finally had the opportunity to have this surgery done.  Dr Joya has definately changed my life for the better and I couldn't be more grateful.  The beginning was so difficult, having to relearn to eat everything, and I mean EVERYTHING.  But it has been so worth it, I can finally be the mother to my daughter that I have always wanted to be!

What a wonderful Christmas present, and a great way to start the New Year.  Happy Holidays to all of you!!!!
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Tough
on September 8, 2009 3:57 pm
It's hard not to get discouraged with these plateaus, especially when you lose steadily and then - BAM - nothing.  I have decided that if it continues through this week, I'll start the 5 day pouch test.  Everyone seems to have good results with it.  I don't necessarily want to do the plateau-buster diet, I'd rather try the 5DPT first and see if that can kick off my weight loss again.


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Darn plateaus!
on September 5, 2009 11:50 am
Surgery was August 17th and I've lost 30 pounds.  It was steadily coming off until last Monday.  Then nothing.  My plummeting scale came to a screeching halt.  I was a bit discouraged, thought maybe I introduced soft foods too soon, maybe I was eating too much of a bad thing... I came to the message boards and found that other people had the same issue I did.  My only question was - I'm not eating much at all, I'm fairly active - there's definately a defecit when it comes to calories being taken in versus what is being expended, so where's it all going?  Or coming from?  I realized I'm probably NOT drinking enough water, so that will change immediately.  I am getting enough protein, so that's not a worry of mine.  Hopefully that will make a difference, if not, then I'll start on the 'plateau buster' diet for 10 days and see how that goes.

This is one of the things I was afraid of, deep inside, was having this surgery and it not working.  Then of course, how can it not work when your new pouch is so much smaller, and there's always the threat of dumping syndrome looming in the background?!

Wish me luck. 
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My Story

First of all, you'll probably never see a full body shot of me immediately pre-op, other than the one my surgeon took, which I will post as soon as it's emailed to me.  I would avoid cameras because of my weight.  The ones in my album are from August of 07 and my surgery was done in August of 09.  I hated having my picture taken!  Hopefully that will change very soon!!!


My story about my struggle with my weight is pretty much like anyone else's.  Nothing special here.  I joined obesityhelp.com while researching a surgeon here in San Antonio.  The insurance is terrible at my place of employment, there was no way that surgery was to be covered.  I had resorted to saving my money to have it done, but let's face it, $18,000 is a lot of money, and that was barring any complications.  I was halfway there when I went to buy some new clothes because again, I was growing outwards...  Noone's fault but my own.  I could barely wiggle myself into a 2X top.  If I hadn't had my 12 year old daughter with me, I probably would have burst into tears in the dressing room.  "This is it," I thought to myself.  I was tired of being the biggest one at my work.  I was tired at the way that people looked at me.  I wasn't born big.  I was never a big kid when I was growing up.  Sure, when I was 6 or 7 or 8 years old I'd wear the "Husky" brand jeans from Sears, but I grew out of them quickly.  At one point in high school, I was even anorexic.  At 5'10, I ate barely enough to keep a bird alive and would go through the day not being able to remember if I had eaten.  Makes me chuckle now.  When I got pregnant with my daughter, I weighed 125.  One hundred twenty five.  I was a size five.

Fast forward 12 years later, and I find myself struggling for breath while having a conversation and trying to clean house at the same time.  I can't walk up the small sloped hill from my parking lot into the building at work with any coworkers, I'm too emabarrased for them to see me sweating or not able to talk because I can't catch my breath.  I can't bend over to tie my shoes without feeling like my veins in my head are going to pop.  Forget me whining about the various aches and pains in my joints and the sleep apnea, hypertension, blah blah blah.

I'm killing myself slowly, and the worst part is, my child is watching it.  She's learning that this lifestyle is "the norm" - and I'm not okay with that.

So I left the dressing room, came home, and got online.  I applied for financing to cover the rest of the surgery when I came across a link for Dr. Armando Joya in Puerto Vallarta.  Now, let me tell you, as a nurse living less than 3 hours from the border, I can't even begin to tell you about some of the horror stories we have heard and seen of patients that were cared for south of the border.  But I went through pages and pages and pages of reviews for Dr Joya.  Literally almost all of them were positive.   I emailed some of his recent former patients.  A few complaints about the staff at the hospital, but hey, who DOESN'T complain about us nurses??????  Almost every single review I read and every former patient had nothing but praise for him and his skill.  It made me feel better that he did part of his residency and even a fellowship here in the states.

Not quite sure I was going to be approved for financing, I thought it wouldn't be so bad to have to wait to save the rest of the money for surgery with Dr Joya.  The rep from surgeryloans.com called me back the next day with an approval.  I called Dr Joya's office and spoke to Gerald that day and was happy to find that there was not long of a wait to have the surgery done.

The ball is in my court now.  I have these papers in my hand, all I need to do is sign them and fax them back to surgeryloans.com, call Gerald back and schedule a date for my surgery.

I'm on my way to reclaiming my life back.  Not for me.  For me AND my daughter.