It's time...afterall it has been a year

I thought I would stop over here again. I visited this forum several months ago when I had a question about losing versus maintaining and had several very good and helpful answers. I have to agree that maintaining is indeed harder than losing. When you are in the losing stage, you are getting all of the motivation of compliments. When you start to maintain I have to say that sometimes I feel like people are just waiting for me to regain it all again. Afterall, isn't that just what fat people do? They lose a lot of weight only to gain it all back plus an added cushion. I guess I'm pretty determined to maintain this new healthy lifestyle. I can actually say that I eat in a healthy manner now and really want to continue down that road. I like that one comment about the fact that things are going well today, but for tomorrow, we will have to wait to see how that plays out. I still keep thinking I'm going to wake up and find that it was all just a dream. This past Saturday I had my 1st year surgiversary, so now I feel that I officially qualify to come on over and hang out over here. I've read some of the posts and already found several helpful things. I just don't get as much out of the RNY board and I used to. There are the new people over there asking that same questions we were asking a year ago. The cycle of WLS continues to move forward. Over a year and a half ago, my wife, thought I was a bit crazy when I first talked to her about my thoughts of having WLS. She said that it was fine for me, but it seemed a bit extreme in her eyes. Well, after a year of this, Christine has decided it was time to have our tandem surgeries. Her RNY surgery is scheduled for June 19th. I'm pretty excited about it as I just never thought she was even interested in looking at it. She was worried about getting qualified since she is more of a lightweight in the grand scheme of things. With minor co-morbids she has a BMI of around 40. She had her paperwork submitted on a Monday and by Friday of that same week she was approved. What a blessing it is to have good insurance.  Anyway, that is enough of a re-introduction. I'm looking forward to reading and throwing my thoughts out here from time to time. Also, I'm obviously interested in making contact with couples who have both had the surgery. If you have any friends that you know of who are in that boat, please, if you could either post the link or PM me, I'd be most grateful. Congrats to all of you for the job you are doing. John

Congratulations on all your success, and good luck to your missus on her upcoming surgery!

Thank you Wanda; I have been fortunate to work toward success. Christine is really looking forward to her surgery but has no intention of becoming an OH junkie like me. I go through streaks where I leave it alone for a few days and then I enjoy tooling around. Also, I saw the birthday cake pic and agree with everyone in their comments. You look like you are having a birthday to celebrate a day in your early 30's. You have a long way to go before you have the grandma look yet. You've done so well...keep up the great work. John

John You're welcome here...Congrats on the success of losing and the continued success of maintaining.. And congrats on your wife's upcoming surgery too. I was considered a light weight. I did end up losing 100 pounds but it was a pleasant shock to me. My beginning bmi was 37 with two co-morbids of diabetes and high blood pressure. my bmi right now is about 20. The good news is plentiful: I have no more diabetes, no more hypertension, AND no more high cholesterol issues...The only major issue I have had is wrapping my head around the mental issues. If your wife is ready for that...She's ready. And she's already been through it once with you.  Good luck!

Missus, Congrats on your newfound health. You sound like almost the perfect match of where you were and Christine is. Her BMI is close to your starting BMI and I don't even think she even sports a 40 anymore. She had high blood pressure and was maybe inching toward diabetes. It runs strongly in the family and her dad died from diabetes at the age of 51. She did find it humorous that I asked her how successful she thought she would be. In her head she feels that she will be perfectly successful. She can be very compliant with things and I tend to think that she will get down to a very comfortable weight. When we met we were both thin people. I had lost 130 pounds on Weigh****chers and kept it off for more than 5 years. She was just coming off a diet that she was most successful at. Then we found too much food together and enjoyed cooking. Now, I'm really looking forward to having that same excitement that I had right after the surgery. I believe that it will be a fun journey together. John

I thought my goal weight was 150 from 214 but the surgeon had other ideas and my body, apparently agreed with him and not me...I'm sitting right now at 124 or so...Up from 122 but still below my surgeon's goal of 125...It's nice, actually.