Heidi L.

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Every day continues to be a struggle just trying to maintain my weight.  It seems the slightest bit of carbohydrates send my weight rocketing.  I have some good news though.  My insurance company has authorized to pay for part of my breast reduction and arm lift.  I will also be having abdominoplasty and torsoplasty done.  In total there will be 3 surgeries.  My first surgery, the abdominoplasty, will be on February 9th if all the medical clearances go through.  The second surgery, torsoplasty and breast reduction, will be done about a month later.  The third stage, arm lift, will be done about a month after the 2nd surgery.  Not bad.  Right now I am feeling a little scared and really not looking forward to being in a lot of pain.  Why do we chose to go through pain?  It seems so counter-intuitive towards our survival.  This new adventure will be a challenge and also a new beginning towards better health.

Who would have thought that four years could have gone by so quicky.  My weight is still a daily battle, but I am not in a state of deep despair and depression like before surgery.  I have some control over my eating habits.  Over the last 3 months I have been able to lose 20 pounds of regained weight.  I still have 21 more pounds to go to get to my lowest weight.  It will happen.  Today is day 1 on bariatric liquid diet restart.  Hopefully I will have the determination to stick it out until the weight comes off.

My long term goals are to be able to have 360 lower body lift, torsoplasty and breast augmentation performed so that I can feel comfortable in my own skin.  I need to have some abdominal hernias repaired as well.  The things we go through to have children.  I'm hoping I can get this done within the next year.  

Last November I had to have emergency exploratory surgery which reveals lots of messintary hernias, build-up of scar tissue and an intestinal blockage in part of the "y" of my RNY.  Who knew that this could happen 3 years after surgery!  Thankfully I was on vacation when it had happened and had an amazing surgeon operate on me, on his day OFF.  Thank you, Lord!

So, the journey for good health and a long life continues.  Good Luck and Abundant Blessings.

Heidi

After a year and a half of taking my RNY for granted I have started gaining weight back.  That has got to be one of the scariest events in a post-op's life.  As suggested by my nutritionist I have gone back onto the pre-op liquid diet to rev up my metabolism and decrease my caloric intake.  I weighed in a week ago and was up to 185 pounds.  After two days on the pre-op liquid diet I weighed in again and have lost 5.5 pounds.  Hopefully this will give me the motivation to keep going.  I really look forward to the day when I am in the normal BMI range and most of my obesity symptoms go away.  One day at a time.

~Heidi