nfarris79
on 8/28/11 7:05 am - Germantown, MD

RNY on 04/13/11

My surgeon gave me this phrase and I was curious what it means to you all. Basically, I see it as this continual process of learning how to eat, what to eat, accepting that my pouch may not always agree with my decisions, accepting that I have different needs from non-ops, accepting that I need to re-learn my body signals...... Whaddaya think?

First ultra: Stone Mill 50 miler 11/15/14 13:44:38, First Full Marathon: Marine Corps 10/27/13 4:57:11, Half Marathon PR 2:04:43 at Shamrock VA Beach Half-Marathon, 12/2/12 First Half-Marathon 2:32:47, 5K PR Run Under the Lights 5K 27:23 on 11/23/13, 10K PR 52:53 Pike's Peek 10K 4/21/13, (1st timed run) Accumen 8K 51:09 10/14/12.

Cicerogirl, The PhD
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on 8/28/11 7:11 am - OH

RNY on 08/27/07

Since I have been able to eat literally almost anything since I first had surgery (only 5 things ever made me sick and even a couple of those I can now eat with no problem), and since my diet now is not that much different from what i did on hundreds of pre-op attempts to lose weight by eating a healthy, well-bnalanced diet (other than being higher in protein), the only thing I really needed to "learn" about my pouch was what full felt like and what levels of sugar and fat I can tolerate.

Lora

14 years out; 190 pounds lost, 165 pound loss maintained

You don't drown by falling in the water. You drown by staying there.

Cherylkas
on 8/28/11 7:39 am - PA

I think for me it means I need to relearn how to take care fo the body I now have. What foods and fluids it will accept and wont. It also means that I have to rethink my lifestyle. That I have to find other outlets for my emotions as I can no longer eat then away as my pouch will not let that happen.

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Start weight 282, Surgery weight 265, Current weight 131, Goal weight 140

A woman is like a tea bag - you can't tell how strong she is until you put her in hot water. Eleanor Roosevelt

Price S.
on 8/28/11 8:45 am - Mills River, NC

RNY on 09/09/10

my pouch has been very easy to live with. I do eat almost everything I WANT to eat (still don't eat processed carbs). The how much is still part of my learning process. I still weigh and measure most everyhing.

66 yrs young, 4'11" hw 220, goal 120 met at 12 months, cw 129 learning Maintainance

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H.A.L.A B.
on 8/29/11 6:48 am, edited 8/29/11 7:03 am

RNY on 05/14/08

I agree with him. Some people have it easier than others. I am over 3 years post op and still have to learn about my pouch and my insides. One day - something is good... then the next not so much...
It may depend on the food I ate earlier doring the day, or how stressed I am - was, if I have new ulcer forming (possibility), who made the food, how fre**** may be, what is the season (allergies), and so on... still learning...

Hala. RNY 5/14/2008; Happy At Goal =HAG

"I can eat or do anything I want to - as long as I am willing to deal with the consequences"

"Failure is not falling down, It is not getting up once you fell... So pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and start all over again...."

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