HAPPY 5TH SURGIVERSARY STEPHANIE O!

  HAPPY 5th SURGIVERSARY STEPH!!  Wishing you love and support in your ongoing WLS journey. We all have to remember that this is a life long commitment. Thanks for all the support you have given to me and others.

Susan

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HERE'S THE LINK TO STEPH'S SUPPORT PAGE!

Thanks Sue.  I actually forgot until I saw a congratulations come through my email and I figured someone had to have posted to the board as I'm almost never here anymore and don't really post.  I guess after awhile, at least for me, I don't think about it anymore.  It is what it is.  Somedays are good and some days are not. 

I feel pretty normal when it comes to eating and unfortunately have gotten back to alot of the bad habits I had before surgery.  Gained about 70 pounds of the over 250 I lost.  But I'm dieting again.  Yes, I said the evil word.  After all this time, I can eat almost anything and like a regular person I have to watch what I eat and exercise.  The days of losing weight because I woke up in the morning are long gone.  I'm really back to where I was before surgery.  Eat like a little piggy, gain weight.  Eat sensibly, reduce calories, exercise and lose weight or maintain.

I think one day I'll actually get the hang of this.  At least I hope I will.

Thanks again for thinking of me.

Steph

Stephanie,
Congrats to you on your milestone. I think everyday is a milestone if we can make it thru it. Your not alone on the weight gain, most of us go thru it. It's not easy having surgery.....I am so with you....

I too will be starting my new routine to get my extra pounds off....I have let 40 pounds creep back in the past couple years....We can do it......I have confidence in you. Miss you and Mikey.

Thanks Darlene...you have always been the best at shaking those pom poms.  You are a born cheerleader. 

I've lost some of the 70 already.  It's slow, it's tedious, it's frustrating.  Everything it was before surgery.  I read the excitment and committment in the newbies and I remember that time well.  I feel like an ancient mom. I want to impart the wisdom I've learned over the years.  But as with our kids, they won't listen. 

Surgery is a wonderful tool.  I'll never regret having it.  I just wish I had done the "head" work instead of just assuming that I'll never put on weight again.  The saying 100, 200 pounds gone forever is not quite true.  Yes, it can be gone forever.  But we have to work at it.  We have to understand that after a couple of years, the "miracle" of RNY surgery is over.  Then we are basically back to square one.  Diet and exercise must become a way of life with RNYer's.

I have been looked at and actually could qualify for a revision as the exit from my stomach has expanded to such a degree that it's very difficult for me to keep food in there for any length of time.  But having just gone through surgery in March for another issue, I'm not anxious to go under again.  I'm going to do my best to work this out myself.  Afterall, I will have to do that for the rest of my life.

So onward my favorite cheerleader.  As we said to eachother a long time ago.  We can do it.  I believe we can.

Steph

P.S.  I will be sure to say hi to Mikey for you.

Hi Steph,

Happy 5th Surgiversery!

Although you have struggles , know that you are still a role model here on the boards.


Kim

Thanks Kim.  It is a struggle.  A daily one.  But with perseverance will come success.  My new mantra.  LOL

Steph