Half Way To Goal!

Jan 21, 2009

It has been 119 days and I am already half way to my goal weight of 130 lbs.  It has not been all peaches and cream either. There have been a few bumps in the road along the way.  This surgery is no walk in the park that is for sure! I have had to go to the ER a couple times for dehydration which I guess is pretty common after reading others blogs. I have a sore on my upper left shoulder that I received after scrapping it up against a rough wall and it turned into a blister (like a floor burn) and got infected and I had to go to a Wound Care Specialist and the doctor said it would not heal due to a lack of nutrition. It has been 6 weeks and the wound is the size of a half-dollar and just fell off today and I can still see some green around the area. I have a nice red scar developing too. My hair is falling out by the hand fulls.  When I went to my nutritionist appointment on Monday, I was telling her about all the health issues I am experiencing and she asked me if all my vitamins were chewables and I told her no, that I switched back to regular, big horse pill vitamins a couple weeks after surgery, thinking I wasn't getting enough nutrients from the chewables.  AH-HA! That was my problem! All those big horse pills I have been swallowing are not giving me the nutrients I need since my system can no longer digest them and break them down.  The chewables absorb through the walls of your mouth and into your blood stream directly. So between feeling run down, fatigued and having no appitite, my body was shutting down from a a lack of nutrients. I guess I was not as educated on gastric-bypass as I thought I was. Just trying to keep my body hydrated and fed properly and making sure I get all the vitamins I need (some twice a day) and exercise is a full time job!  I am enjoying the 4 pant-sizes I have lost. I am losing the weight everywhere evenly however, I am struggling with my mid-section (lower abs).  I guess I will have to double up on my ab workout! Over all I am very, very happy with my decision to have the bypass and would highly recommend it to anyone who struggles to lose weight.

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Everett, WA
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28.0
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RNY
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09/24/2008
Surgery Date
Jul 21, 2008
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