10-4-10 - 20 WEEKS AND 62 POUNDS GONE FOREVER!!

Oct 04, 2010

Well hello my fellow OH'rs!  Today is 20 weeks since my Gastric Bypass.  I am down 62 pounds, weight is 235 lbs.  I am finally starting to notice the changes in my body and see it in pictures.  I still have so much to go and am a bit distressed at the fact that it is going slooooow for me.  I have heard of people losing 100 lbs. by this time, but I try to not let myself freak out too much over this as everyone is different, every body is different.  I am not 20 years old anymore.  Back then I used to lose 10 pounds in one week if I really pushed it.  Now even with WLS and exercise I am losing about an average of 2 pounds a week.  At first it was faster, but now it seems to be down to about 2 pounds per week.  My big fear is that I will stop losing weight and just plateau, plateau, plateau but my nutritionist says that I will continue to lose weight for the first year.  So far, I do keep losing weight, it's just slow.  It really helps that I am seeing the difference in my body and looking in the mirror is getting a bit easier...

I went to the monthly support group that my doctor has at Palmetto in September and they asked me to say a few words to the people next door who were at the Weight Loss Seminar where the doctor tells them what to expect when they have WLS.  Well I didn't think I was actually ready to go up there since I just had my surgery 4 months ago, but they said I was ready so I went up there and was the first one to talk since I was the "baby" of the group.  It felt good telling everyone about my weight loss but when I was leaving this girl who was NOT heavy at all, she looked like she weighed maybe 170 lbs. at the most, says to me, "you had WLS in May?" and I said "yes" and she said, "and you've lost 54 pounds?" and I said "yes" and she said, "I had WLS in May too and I've lost 124 pounds!" and I said, "WTF????"  well.... I did not really say WTF, but I did say "WHAT???" and she shook her head... and I said, "you've lost 124 pounds since May?  Really?" and she just shook her head and chewed her gum and kept saying "yes" and she had wild crazy eyes.  Well...I just looked at her and said, "you're delusional" and I walked away.  And OMG I was so pissed!!!  I mean, who loses 124 pounds in 4 MONTHS?????  That's just impossible.  I mean... maybe if you're 400 pounds or more you can lose 124 pounds in 4 months, but she was not any more than 170 lbs, if that, she was probably less.  Which means she could not have weighed more than 300 lbs, even that was probably too much.  Now really, 124 pounds in 4 MONTHS????  Why would she say something like that?  How could that be true?

I talked it over with my nutritionist who also thinks she was just making it up.  She told me there will be people who will try and make you feel bad for having the surgery, or will do things to bring you down.  I hadn't experienced any of that yet but I have heard this happens to a lot of WLS patients.  I know of people whose marriage ends, friendships end, siblings fight... so I guess this will be something new to face down the road.  Why anyone would want to come down on someone else's happiness is beyond me.  But I guess there are all sorts of people in the world.  So that was my eye opener of the month.  I look forward to next time when there will be more pounds gone forever.  In the meantime, I would love for any of you reading this to share a story you might have had that was similar to mine or any of your relationships changing.  For those of you that blog and write your experiences, you are an inspiration to me and I enjoy reading them all.  It is because of you that I decided to write down my experiences and I want to thank you all for giving me inspiration every day.  Good luck to all of you on your journeys and don't stop writing!!!

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