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Wow 20 years post op!  So it has been awhile that I have been on obesity help. I am in awe how well have done. I would do it all over again in a heartbeat. I have had my ups and downs, but those are 99% all my fault because I forget I not super woman. When Im feeling great I tend to forget to take care of myself so I stay feeling great. I am prone to ulcers that like to bleed. Recently I ended up in the the hospital for 4 days do to a bleeding ulcer that I didn't know was happening. But again had I been taking my Prilosec or Protonix like I should I would have never been in that situation. So now on to good stuff, I am almost 50 yrs old, I was 29 when I had open RYN. I am so active now and doing things that I never thought I would be doing. Im very active in trail riding with my horses and doing ground exercises with them. From day one of surgery I never wanted to have the dreaded bat wings, so every morning for about 5-10 minutes with my little dumb bells I do my arm exercises. Gosh I think the day of surgery I was 325 pounds, now I am a 110 normally, lost a few pounds from this last ulcer but I will gain it back. But just had to give a update.

It sure been a while seance I have posted an update. It has been almost 16 years seance sense I had my open RNY. When I started my quest for weight loss surgery I was 305 pounds, I got to my goal weight of 135 in 10 months and my weight has settled between 115-120 pounds. I can't complain one bit. I haven't weighted myself in over 6 months only because I took my scales out the barn and the horses kinda stepped on them ???? And I have been to lazy to buy new ones. Now a days when I do weigh myself it is to make sure I am not too underweight. I can always tell where my weight is by the way my clothes fit. After these years that have past I still have fear that my pouch will get stretched or something will happen and I will gain my weight back. On a final note , Today I am blessed to have been able to keep my weight off.

Where is the time going? Seems like yesterday I had surgery. Seems like Yesterday Obesity help only had 500 members. Ok 14 years later things are going pretty good. Weigh in this morning was 123 pounds. My Blood labs are still off but again I must stress that if I did what I am s'pose to do, I wouldn't have these issues. My Iron has been bottomed out, I now get Iron infusions and B12 shots. Smartest move I ever did was get that b12 shot. I'm low on my Folic acid. My vitamin D is low but hey I'm in a brick building all day , I have UC , doctors says it is chrohns but I'm leaning more to UC. That is such a pain in my ass literally , so I. Not going there on that subject. ok so what would be interesting for someone wondering what a Long term post op RNY eats.  So let's see, I will give an example of what a normal food diary looks like for me in a day.

breakfast-  coffee and more coffee

about 30 minutes after my coffee I try to eat a hard boiled egg or a string cheese

Snack- Greek yogurt 6oz.

Lunch- maybe a peanut butter and jelly sandwich minus the crust

snack - orange or a handful of grapes

dinner - whatever I cook . Example 2 oz beef or chicken, 1/2 cup veggies and maybe a few bites of starchy foods.

snack before bedtime. 

Just a update. My blood work is still all messed up. I have been seeing a whole bunch of different doctors and I had CT scan done a few days ago, I to find out the results of that in a few days. On June 16th I go in to start having Iron Infussions, Im a tad bit nervous but OH SO HAPPY that soon I will have more energy( I hope) Then on June 25th I have to endoscope and colonscope. The doctors are trying to figure why my body is not Holding the Iron that we put into it. Tomorrow I go to see yet another Doctor for my Hernia that likes to hide from the doctors. I hope they can find and fix this hernia. It dosnt hurt but when it does pop out it takes my breath away.

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be able to get to goal and and maintain my weight loss. I do believe my pre op research help me a lot in achieving my goals. I had a lot of bumps in the roads, but never lost focus of why I had this surgery and I have never taken this surgery for granted. I never wanted to be one of those people who after 6 months went back to bad habits and gained their weight back, Gaining weight back from mechanical issues is so understandable, but to gain weight back because of unhealthy choices and over eating is sad. Maybe because I had surgery back in the day when they had to cut you open with 12 inch+ incision and had to spend at least 4+ days in the hospital with pain that was so mind blowing and makes child birth look like a walk in the park! maybe that was enough incentitive to keep me on the right path. The one thing thing I do know is I love being skinny and semi-healthy, I say semi healthy because these past 6 months I have slacked on taken my supplements and I'm paying the big price. I actually missed used my tool. I went back to school this past year and after the 1st semester of only taking 3 classes, I thought wow I can do this and I took 6 classes the next semester well needless to say that has kicked my butt!!!! I didn't have time to do much of anything except sleep go to school and study and that is what I did. During the this time being I had no time I stopped eating because it was time consuming. I didn't do it on purpose I just didn't have time, for the most part I was eating but maybe only 3 bites of my dinner, now keep in mind I hate the feeling of being hungry so I had made it a point from day one to keep my pouch small and to never stretch it out, so this played out well for me, but before I overloaded my time I would eat 5-6 times a day small meals and take my supplements , about a week ago I was feeling so bad I decided to get my blood work, WOW, is all my can say and my doctor was in shock and threaten to hospitalize me, of course I talked him out of that after I explained what lead to this. I had Totally bottomed out on all my major mineral and vitamin counts. So Doctor has me on some shots and some major pills/liquid minerals ( which to me is a small meals in themselves) but he said he is giving me 3 weeks to start heading in a positive direction in the blood counts , he told me because of this pickle I got myself into , it can take up to 2 weeks to just start feeling human again and up to 2 months for my body to start replenishing the deleted stores and up a year for my blood count and body storage to be normal again. Yes lesson learned , I will never stop taking my supplements. I will never overload my time where I don't have time to keep myself healthy. Today is the first day in over 10 days that I can even function( getting out of bed without the fear of missing a class) I'm still very fatigued and typing this has me ready to go back to bed but this an improvement compared to last week where I had to have the whole family and 3 alarm clocks set at different times set to get me out of bed. So just going by how I feel I know I'm headed in a positive direction , I learn very fast , I will never do this again to myself just like I learned 12 years ago I will never over eat again and get fat again. LESSON FROM THIS FOLLOW ALL THE RULES AND TOOLS IM GIVING TO LEAD HEALTHY SKINNY LIFE.

Wow Is it really 12 1/2 years later !!!! Im doing good. I got off track for a little bit and Im paying for it big time. My Stomach and Intestines are so twisted right now from eating all the wrong foods. Lesson learned i wont be doing that again and Im sure my Family that sits in the same room with me will agree " Its not normal to stink that that bad :) I have gained 7 pounds but I have always been the type to gain 5 pounds lose 5 pounds. But this week i will be working on getting in my comfort zone again. Im bloated with water too and that is killing me too. BUT besides that , I LOVE the new me and I would totally have this surgery over and over again. I can totally see how some people can slip back into their old eating habits because that is what i did, BUT im a slave to the scales so once i hit that 7 pound weight gain, im back to the basics that got me skinny in the first place. So Today I weighted in at 135. My Comfort weigh i like to be at is 128. So i hope to be back at the weight by next Monday. Im going to follow the High Protein diet. For anyone who reads this and just had surgery, Congrats to you and follow the rules and you will be a new healthy person in no time :)

 Wow Time sure is going by way to fast!!!  Well Today I went to the Doctors for a Check up and I wieghted in at 120, woo hoo for me. I feel great, I look great.  For those who do read this all i can say is follow the rules !!! I see so many peers that surgery the same time as me or had it after me and they get complacment going on. The simple rules eat healthy, chose healthy foods , dont drink right before your meal and dont drink right after your meals, DO NOT drink with your meals. Dont drink your calories. Listen to your body it will tell you what you need to be doing. Dont skimp on your suppliments.

When i had this surgery, i was so afraid my stomach would stretch back out again, so i have been very carfull to never over eat and to this day i still messure my food. I try to stay away from slider foods. Im not a saint because i adore chocolate and i eat chocolate with zero problems. It is the one thing that i can have that has sugar in it and I dont dump on, now other surgery foods can make me drop in a blink of an eye. Im the biggest fan of Pizza, I eat pretty much what ever i want, I do eat not so healthy food every now and then, like tonight is pizza night :) but normal dinners are always on the line of protien and veggies of some sort. I can eat about 3 oz of meat and about 1/2 cup of veggies for dinner. I almost never eat breakfast because i gotta have that coffee in the AM.  Lunch is a sandwhich of some sort . I eat when im hungry and sometimes i have to remind myself to eat.
I have been blessed.

Things have been great. Today 9 1/2 years later, I still weigh 123. My weight will go up and down by 5 pounds on any given day. But its the jeans that count as long as they fit it is all good.About every 3 months my hair still sheds, something i will live with. I eat like a normal person but what is normal? I cant have reg table sugar  but if i wanted eat a candy bar i can go figure . But i do try to stay away from sugar more than i do anything else.

Some days I can eat a fair amount of food and then other days i have to remind myself to eat. So today wasnt a great day, But just for the heck of it and for reference for myself i will put it down here. I eat 5-6 times a day, or at least i try to. I do take my vitamins and my B12 everyday and i will have a protien shake when i feel like i need extra protien in my diet. Im planning on go High Protien low carb for about a week or 2

Breakfast- I hate mornings So it was 3 cups of coffee
Snack- pack of peanutbutter crackers
Lunch or late afternoon- i had a hard boiled egg and a couple bites of salad greens
Dinner- i had a subway sub 6 inch
snack peanut butter crackers

Im doing better, Im still so tired, i know it is because i have lost so much weight, im down to 120 and I need to put a few pounds on and get hot and heavy on my supplements. It is nice that my doctor didnt make my pouch smaller it gives me the advantage of getting in extra calories or at least i hope.Well thats my update for now

9-18-10
Yeah well on the 14th i had my repair surgery, I had it lap, Holy Cow , yup it is still painful as the the the first WLS i had 9 years ago. Im alittle scared because Im losing weight very fast , I didnt need to lose weight just needed to be fix, I had a  leak/ hole so it had to be fix'd. Im doing the clear broth, jello  so that my new transected pouch can heal nice and tight, but this sucks, LOL. I need to get some calories in because my hair is already falling out YIKES. But im recovering alot faster this time around must be cause This surgery was lap only 7 holes instead of the 10 inch scar i got the last time. Im gonna start on some chewable Vitamins this evening from Bariatric advantage, My doc dosnt want me to take any kind of pill again wether it be vitamins or pain pills , he said chewables or liquid. So with new surgery  i guess i can try these vitamins i hear great reviews about, i dont like the price of them but oh well. Well i took some pain meds so i can lay down a relax abit just want to give an update.