2 Ys After Gastric Bypass (A true account)

Jan 01, 2010

Hello...all my friends....WOW!!  It's been 23 months since I had RNY bariatric surgery.  How has my life changed?  OMG....it is sooo much different and BETTER...for sure!!  I weighed over 400# to begin with.  I could not breathe, walk over 1 ft, or even consider being a part of anyone else's life when I was that heavy.  We are taking about a woman who had a wheelchair in her kitchen so that she could make her meals and do her dishes. I let my family wheel the wheelchair out 8 months ago.  I continue to "sit" while I do the dishes...but that is due to arthritis that I acquired during my 40+ yrs of stupidity (obesity).

I refuse to "downplay" anything that I had gone through as far as overeating, binge eating or anything else.  I still have obese children that, for some reason, have NOT heard what I am saying....but then again, they are adults and do not have to consider the consequences.  I am 2 yrs past surgery, have lost 200 # and worry constantly that I might pack on the # if I don't watch myself.  I refuse to allow myself to get over 220#.  That may seem horrific to most, buy you must imagine that I came from over 400#....so seeing 200# is skinny tom me!!  I have maintained the weight of under #220 for 2 yrs and if I had all my excess skin removed...I know that I would be in the 100's. 

I no longer use the mobility carts in the grocery store to get around...I walk it...which is oftentimes painful because I suffer from extreme arthritis from years of obesity...but I carry on, never-the-less.  Tonight it was frigid (wind chill at -10) and I shopped for the family.  Unofortunately, due to a dead battery...I went shopping after 5pm.  Walmart was picked clean of most everything I wanted, food-wise, but I will go out again in a week. In the meantime, I have made certain that we have at least a week's worth of food and there is always LOVE in this household....so we will survive despite the underlying circumstances~!!

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