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Been crazy busy with work.
Highest: 350+
Program Start: 328
Surgery Weight: 299
Last Week: 163
This Week: 161
Started a 30 day yoga boot camp. I really like it, except for when the Internet slows and I'm stuck in one position. The positive is, I am stronger than I thought!
I had my surgery at 42 (14 days shy of 43) and it in no way kept me from meeting my goals.
I would highly recommend with your history of depression and your food issues that you establish a relationship with an eating disorder counselor now. That relationship in place will be a great tool for you after surgery when your coping device of eating is removed. You will read over and over that WLS is only a tool and it does not fix our heads. There are no truer words.
I attribute doing this and working on my relationship with food has been fundamental in not only losing weight but also maintaining thus far. It's a daily struggle that does not get easier the further out that you get.
Your metabolism isn't slow -- you've already lost quite a bit of weight -- and you will do wonderfully with the right mindset.
BTW, "food funerals" are very common -- I think a lot of us have done this.
Good luck!
Edited to add: I noticed that you say that you have "severe GERD" --- and I am wondering why you are having the VSG in this situation. GERD is usually a contraindication for the VSG?
"What you eat in private, you wear in public." --- Kat
Welcome Kansas Princess, Don't think I have seen you post on here before...unless I missed it... anyway glad you are here. great job in 6 months.
Ha! Totally get the part about your sister...I was always the official 'fat' sister in the family.... not any more!
Cynthia 5'11" RNY 7/23/2014
Goal reached 17 months. 220lb Weight Loss
Plastic Surgery Dr. Joseph Michaels - LBL and Hernia Repair 2/29/16, Arm Lift, BL, 5/2/16, Leg Lift 7/25/16
#lifeisanadventure #fightthegoodfight #noregrets
it is always a balancing act. Use Miralax, and actually just bought some fiber gummies to try....
Cynthia 5'11" RNY 7/23/2014
Goal reached 17 months. 220lb Weight Loss
Plastic Surgery Dr. Joseph Michaels - LBL and Hernia Repair 2/29/16, Arm Lift, BL, 5/2/16, Leg Lift 7/25/16
#lifeisanadventure #fightthegoodfight #noregrets
on 4/9/16 5:23 pm
I wrote a bunch about myself in the "About Me" section of my profile. I jumped through my final hoop yesterday with my endoscopy and have VSG scheduled for 4/26/16. My highest weight was 326; my weight at my first bariatric appointment was 307; my weight this past weekend was 284. I'm drinking at least one protein shake most days and have returned to riding my exercise bike (recumbent). I have arthritis, fibromyalgia, severe GERD, hypertension, high cholesterol, as well as a number of co-morbid conditions.
Being 44 and on disability for depression, I'm scared that my metabolism has been slowed down so much by my age and medications that I will lose far less weight than I could otherwise. How about other 40-somethings? Has age played a role in your weight loss? Are there any other women in this age group who have been taking meds and continued on them during their weight-loss process? It feels like the (IM)perfect storm.
I'm both excited and terrified about the journey I'm embarking on. I start my all-liquid diet on Tuesday and am trying to fit in some of my favorite foods before then. Did anyone else go on this "binge" (for lack of a better word) to fit in the foods they may not eat again?
I was introduced to this site Thursday when I had my endoscopy and one of my nurses had WLS, losing 170 lbs with her highest weight being in the mid 300s. I'm hoping to find some support here and hopefully offer some, too!
Did you find that you needed some fiber tablets? All critter all week is my idea of heaven.
RNY 2011/07/26 HW 338; SW 301; LW 199; Starting over weight 255; CW 212; GOAL #1 lose regain back to 199 lbs!
Some will do it, but many do not believe in taking out a perfectly healthy organ. Feel free to ask.
Laura in Texas
53 years old; 5'7" tall; HW: 339 (BMI=53); GW: 140 CW: 170 (BMI=27)
RNY: 09-17-08 Dr. Garth Davis
brachioplasty: 12-18-09 Dr. Wainwright; lbl/bl: 06-28-11 Dr. LoMonaco
"May your choices reflect your hopes and not your fears."
The subsequent surgery doesn't bother me as much as my need to be as efficient as possible. If he's already "digging around" in there, why not just pull out the things that might cause problems in the future. I'm just trying to save him time
HW 330
Surgery 7/21/16
HW 337
LW 218.3
TW 219.6
next goal: 199; though I'd love to have lost 120# by my one year anniversary in 20 days!
im up this week but have basically been the same the past 3 weeks, which I call a stall. I'm gonna keep at it but focus on new habits for my trouble time of day.
5'6.5" High weight:337 Lowest weight:193/31 BMI: Goal: 195-205/31-32 BMI
I'll be having mine out when I get to my surgery (in July, hopefully). But that's because when I had a CT Scan last year when I had an abdominal hernia, they also happened to see a stone in there. And if you already definitely have a not so great gall bladder, at least my surgeon said he would definitely remove it at the same time since it would likely get worse after WLS.
