Vivian Prouty

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Im so sorry it's bee such a long time since I've been on here.    I promise I'm planning on returning.   My life has been turned upside down this past year.   I lost my husband to a massive heart attack on Oct. 30th.   We were married almost 40 years & 2 weeks after that my middle son went to prison.    I've had a regain of about 20-25 lbs & let's just say life hasn't been easy for me.   I'm adjusting slowly though.   But God made me a very strong person & I will return a stronger & better me.  Please keep me in your prayers.   Thank you

Well....I did it again.   I guess life has gotten in the way of me adding a blog here.    2014 wasn't a good year for my family at all.    Lots of unpleasant things happened and I tried with all my might but did some stress eating.    I'm going to try to do much better this year.   Life sometimes gets in the way and disturbs your plans.   I am now over 9 yrs. post op.    I've still retained at least 100 lbs of my weight loss but I need to work hard this year to get this regain off.   I know it will be hard....it always is the older you become and I am now 61.    Please keep me in your thoughts and prayers that I can do this.    Have a blessed day !!!

Hello Everyone,

Can't believe that I haven't posted anything this year.    Gee that is really bad.    I've had a pretty busy year so far....not all wonderful busy either but I'd rather not get into that.   I am now 8 1/2 yrs. post op RNY with no major ( by major I mean 40 - 50 lb. ) regain.    Life is good for the most part.    I need to get my diet and exercise program in check.   I've had a small regain ( less than 5 lbs ) this year due to added stress but I'm on top of it.    Hope everyone is having a great life since your WLS and doing well.    My advice to anyone new to WLS is exercise everyday if possible......keep your portion sizes in check.....and watch your carbs and what you eat.    Remember you not only had the WLS to loose weight but to get healthy.   You won't get healthy eating junk and unhealthy foods.    Good luck to you and have a great day.

I am changing February's meeting till the 9th due to Super Bowl Sunday.    Don't want anyone to miss the game if they wish to see it and to miss our meeting.    So hope to see everyone on the 9th.    Thank you.   Vivian

Hello Everyone,

Merry Christmas and hope you all have a Happy New Year.    Can't believe it's been over 8 yrs since my WLS and over 9 yrs since I started this life changing journey.    Time has gone by so very quickly.   I am looking so forward to this upcoming year.    Last year was the worse year of my life.   Lots of negative things happened in my family all year long...but thank God the source of all the yearly stress are hopefully a thing of the past now.     Let me give you who are beginning your journey and are scared of the Christmas holiday's some advice.    On Christmas Eve and on Christmas day...if you are facing a meal that is scaring you.....eat a very small meal before you go to eat that meal you are concerned about.    Take a WL friendly dish with you to share with others.    Remember if you eat on a regular size plate ( and I'm sure you probably will )....don't fill that plate.    Visualize a small plate and only take a teaspoon of the foods and it's OK if you don't clean your plate.   If you haven't told family that you had WLS....then tell them your not  all that hungry.     There are always ways around not eating so much.   PLEASE do NOT overeat.   It just is NOT worth it.   If you are really wanting dessert.....take a bite of someone's.    Most people will let you do that particularly family members will share or i would hope that they would.    Most of all...if at all possible go for a walk after dinner...it will make you feel much better and help your meal to digest.   Hope these tips help you make it through your stressful meal.   Oh and if Christmas dinner is at your house and you have lots of things that will tempt you.....pack up the tempting things into to go boxes and send them home with your guests and do NOT take no for a answer.    That way the tempting foods are gone and are no longer a issue that you will have to deal with till it is all gone.    Have a very Merry Christmas and do the very same for New Years,   Also if you go to a party where alcohol is served...get water and have them dress it up with fruit on the side of the glass...no one will know it is just water and you will not be adding any added calories and you will be getting in all your fluids.   Merry Christmas.

I can't believe how very quickly this year has passed by.    Geez....I am glad this week is almost over.   It started out really bad.   One of our fur babies came down sick last saturday afternoon and I was going to take her to the vet on monday AM.   I got up monday AM and she died in my arms.   I am still just totally heart sick over losing her.    I truly didn't think it was that serious or she would have gone to a emergency hospital over the weekend.    What made it even worse was we left on a trip monday AM.    We took her body to the vet for cremeation and then came back home got our suitcases and hit the road.    Needless to say....it was NOT a good trip at all.   Eating wise it was good for me and I came home with a loss ( lb. wise ) but all I could think about is my furbaby and the "what if's".    We came back a day early.   It's good to be back home but still it's strange not seeing her.    Our other furbabies seem to be OK.    If you have had WLS for sometime....I will tell you that you CAN still loose weight.    In 1 week I will be 8 yrs post op RNY and in the last week I have lost 7 lbs.   I know that isn't very much compared to the weight loss that you have in the beginning but trust me....I've worked harder to get his 7 lbs. off than I did 8 yrs ago to loose my weight.     Please if you are newly post op....don't use the term "forever" when you talk about your WL.....FOREVER is a very long time and you truly don't know what events will happen in your future that can make you gain some weight.    I never planned to gain back any...but I've had lots of extremely hard things to deal with in my life since my WLS.....and I did have a weight re-gain.   Thank GOD I got control of it before I gained all that much....but still I've been working on getting it off for years now and have lost and re-gained the same weight.   I am a work in progress and hopefully one day I will get back down to my "happy weight",    Hope this has encouraged someone and not discouraged you.   I am ALL ABOUT encouraging and giving out support to others in this WLS journey.    Have a blessed Day !!!!

Goodness....I can't believe it has been so very long since I've updated my profile.    WOW...strange how life seems to get in the way at times.    I'm doing OK though.....I've not had the best year due to stress brought on by my middle son who is almost 28 who is a recovering drug addict.   We adopted him as a infant from drug addict parents.   I never believed that kids could inheriet things from biological parents if they were not raised by them.....but I do now.   Thank GOD for a program called Teen Challenge who SAVED my son's life.    He is I believe for the most part drug free today.   I know he's had some minor relapses since getting out 18 months ago but he's not reverted back thank God for that.    He has brought a extreme amount of stress to my life and to this day he still majorly stresses me out.    I'm learning to go back and use tough love again....I hate doing that.   It is not in me to be unkind to anyone.    But I have no choice.   I'm tired of being used by him.   He called me yesterday and told me that his girlfriend may be pregnant.   I don't really know how to feel about that right now.   Praying that I will be OK with all this and that if she is...she will have a healthy normal baby.    Thank you for reading that even lives of support group leaders aren't perfect.   LOL

Can't believe that it has been 2 months since I updated my blog.    Let's just say that this year didn't start out well at all and seemed to get worse and worse as the weeks went bye for me.    Thank God that seems to be changing.    The older I get things seem to really be getting to me and getting me down.    My weight is up just a bit but that is normal for me.    SO glad that things are looking up somewhat now for my family.    Life sometimes throws us curve balls and we just have to do the best that we can to hit them and knock them out of the park.   LOL   If your new on this Weight Loss Surgery Journey.....I have a few words of wisdom for you.    Do NOT stray from your eating program and try "forbidden" things.    You will be setting yourself up for a weight gain if you do that.   Also...when you get stressed out...don't give into stress eating....get out of your environment and do a power walk or go work out your frustrations on exercise.    Also If you have just began your journey....You HAVE TO EXERCISE or walk to keep the weight off.    I PROMISE YOU this IS TRUE !!!!   Now....go out and have a amazing day.    

Hope this doesn't inconvience anyone but since sunday is Super Bowl sunday I am pushing the meeting back a week and it will be held the 10th instead of the 3rd.    Hope to see you on the 10th.

Hugs and blessings ~~~ Vivian

Good Morning Everyone,

 I know that this time of the year can be a challenge for us all and trust me it is a BIG CHALLENGE  for me as well.   I have not even began to do my Christmas baking and I think I may put it off as long as I can.    I really dread doing it this year.   Since I've had my WLS ( over 7 yrs. ago ) I have never dreaded this time of year.....but this year I am working very hard on getting off a re-gain and I know what a HUGE challenge it is having sweets around my house.   I am a homemaker and those sweets ( trust me ) know me by my first name and they call me every few seconds......No not minutes BUT seconds.   LOL   I know....I'm pretty funny but I am truly serious about this.    Anyway if you are pretty far out with your WLS and have had a small re-gain ( as I have )....don't think of yourself as a failure because of weight re-gain.   Life sometimes gets in your way and trust me....stress WILL and CAN put weight on you and make you retain it.    That was what my problem is.   I won't go into what all my stresses have been but trust me....they are BIG stresses and they just kept coming at me at a huge speed.    Thank God the stresses have gone down over the last couple of weeks and I did have to get some "help" from my bariatric surgeon's office.     I am 59 yrs. old and a OH Support Group Leader....but I could NOT get the re-gain off even though I was exercising and doing all the right things and eating all the right foods.    Seems that my metabolism had "flatlined" so to speak.   In other words it had slowed down so much that it wasn't affected at all by all my hard work.     So when I went for my 7 yr. checkup and blood work....I asked them for help.    They put me on a low dose diet pill.   I know....DIET PILL ???   When they told me that they were putting me on a diet pill....I was shocked.   I NEVER get hungry since my WLS.....but they said that the pill would boost my metabolism and make me loose.    Well....last month I lost 11 lbs. on their scale ( 14 on mine but I weight in my birthday suit and can't do that there or I would scare them to death ).   LOL  So IF you are in the same boat as I am....you might mention that to your doctor.    I still have some re-gain to go  before I will be where I want to be and I'm praying my body will cooperate with me and the pills.    Hope everyone is having a great holiday season.      Please don't get discouraged with your WLS journey.    It is like life....there are ups and there are downs in this journey....but you have to remember how much better you are than before your surgery and think about where you WOULD BE WITHOUT IT !!!   Have a amazing holiday season and Merry Christmas.   If you are reading this and would like to message me feel  free to do so.   I am on OH off and on all day long.   Have a blessed day !!!