December 2008- Going on year six in March 09. Current weight remains about 143. I speed walk 4.2 miles 5 times a week and make an effort to watch to this day----what I put in my mouth. Just like the first time I lost 100 pounds and kept it off, the 2nd time isn't any easier. If anything I gain weight faster now and after cosmetic surgery it PHYSICALLY hurts (near the scar) when I gain (skin stretching etc). I feels so "off" to gain weight. 

I'm interested in meeting other men in my area that are FREE AND SINGLE AND FIT......!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So email me if you think you may be interested! I'm getting old now! I'm not picky! LOL 

Hey, Obesity Help should start a singles connection for members. What a great idea because who else could understand what we go through better than each other?

March 2007- Can't believe it's been over four years since I wrote that memoire but it is. Since then I also underwent a full torturous "body tuck" that took over 6 months to recover from. I still have a tough time with lesions under the skin, sticking to each other (scar tissue) and it can be very painful. I've also been ill with LOW B-12 AND periods of ANEMIA which have left me bedridden for a day or more. Now, there is a possibility of something called "Barrett's Esophagus", a pre-cancerous disease onset by GERD's which I have NEVER had (reflux). All I know is that from the neck down I look great; but from the neck up I (think I) look horrible. Funny how that can be. The move back east has taken a toll on me in every capacity possible. I'd be a lier if I said a small part of me didn't do some of this for the ability to date more comfortably. Here's the ironic part: I haven't been on a real date or dated a real man since I left California over three years ago. What a hoot!!!!!

December 2002: I successfully lost over 115#'s and kept it off for 16 years with traditional weight loss (calorie watching, and hard corp exercise). I was even written about in two books by Prevention magazine. But an injury in the Marine Corp forced me to give up running marathons, 2 day walkathons and centurian bike rides. With the lack of exercise my metabolism has shifted so drastically this year that I went up nearly 50 pounds and from a size 12 to a size 16/18. I know how hard it is to lose weight the HARD way and the thought of starting all over again just repulses me. I never believed people when they would say "I have tried everything to lose weight but nothing worked." I think that is simply not true. I believe, myself included, people DO NOT TRY to lose weight long enough and give up and quit because they don't have it in them to work that hard. I cannot move the way I moved before the injury I endured in the military and I cannot think of counting every piece of food that goes into my mouth like I did when I was serving in Japan. I kept an ongoing food diary for EIGHT YEARS!!! Yuk! I rode a bike to work for three years, and had a different lifestyle. As a commissioned sales person, I work 12-15 hours a day and I don't have time to calculate 2000 calories on paper. So, I have been reading, reading, reading and talking to everyone about this surgery (friends/family that have had it also) and it seems like what I need to resolve this weight situation for life. If surgery wasn't an option I was already ready to change my lifestyle even if meant walking only 1 mile verus 10 (I used to walk 10 miles a day everyday for many years). But this surgery is going to allow me to re-live the things I love without having to stop at 1 mile! I don't have low self esteem, I'm attractive, active and I like who I am. I don't have time to be unfit and fat anymore!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

 

 

About Me
Westtown, NY
Location
24.5
BMI
RNY
Surgery
03/04/2003
Surgery Date
Jan 26, 2003
Member Since

Before & After
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August 2002
237lbs
February 17, 2005
137lbs

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