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 I had to have 70 cm of my small intestine removed. As a result, the dr had to basically redo my RNY.

I had a hysterectomy in December 2011, and ever since I had bowel and bladder problems. I had severe endometriosis and it is most likely the culprit behind it all.

I am struggling as the pain is incredibly worse than any other surgery. 

Well another year has gone by and I am still loving the new me.  Continuing to maintain at 112 - 116.  I wish I could gain weight but I just don't.  I am fearful one day I might regret making that comment, but for now, I really need about 10 more lbs on me for health purposes.  I get infections alot with all of my conditions.  This year I went on IVIG infusions after being diagnosed last year with Specified antibody deficiency.  Seems to be helping quite a bit.  My sjogrens has been somewhat contained and has not gotten too out of control.  I am now full blown osteoporosis..not sure if the weight loss had anything to do with that, but my rheumy gets on to me all the time telling me to gain weight.  Some day maybe I will listen to her.

I started a new job in April of this year, my 3rd job since I had my weight loss.  I am now Executive director for a law firm.  I am absolutely loving what I do. 

My twin sister finally had her surgery on March 29, along with my mother in law.  My twin is down to 151, so she is making her journey in order for us to be identical again..It's fun and I am so happy and excited for her.  My mother in law is also doing wonderful with her surgery and weight loss.  It's so nice to know two women who I care very deeply for are finally getting their bodies healthy and they are in control more.  They both had surgery with Dr Barker.

That's all for now!  Any questions, feel free to ask!

I hardly get on here at all now, maybe once or twice a month, if not every other month.  Mostly just to post my support group meeting details.  But Teresa does alot of the emails out for me.  Just super busy.

Still keeping weight off.  Weight has been stable between 112 - 116, mostly in the lower range.  Happy still with the results.  Just had bloodwork done and feeling great.  I can't believe it has been almost 3 years already.  Such a life saver.

I am excited to report that my sister is doing her 3 month weigh in and nutritionist work and should be set to have surgery sometime late February or early March.  So excited for her and saved some of my downard sized clothes for her, so it  will be nice to get those out of the closet.  She will have to have a really big garage sale because she inherited alot of my old clothes and has 2 big closets full of clothes now.  Yahoo!

Well it's late and I need to scoot on to bed.

Big Hugs for those reading my posts still.  Keep up the great work and never let anyone or anything keep you from your goals...make good food choices and you too will get to goal...I promise.  Be strict especially the first year and then you can loosen up within moderation.  I still don't do a lot of things like bread, baked potatoes, etc.  I can't eat anything after a bite of bread and to be honest, I prefer a lot more than a small piece of bread.  I am so hooked on green beans, pickles and limes right now.  My other comfort foods are soups, mashed potatoes, macaroni and chees, sphaghetti and meat sauce ( i can eat a whole serving from olive garden if I don't have bread first) and if I have had coffee early in the morning.    I definitely eat my fair share and then some of food.  I have good days where I can still really put it away and then other days where I just can't hardly eat.  How I am feeling has a lot to do with it.  If I have alot of drainage, I can hardly eat.  I don't really care though.  I eat now for nutrition and I do get hungry, alot.  I snack often but in small portions. Unfortunately, I did get hooked back on cokes.  I am very lucky that I don't dump.  I rarely eat sweets, but I do when I want to, but just limit the portion because I don't like the weird dizzyness feeling I sometimes get from the sugar high and then lowering.

That's all for now!
Lindy

I wanted to thank everyone for coming this past Saturday. We had a great turn out and two new people, Lynn and Thelma. 

I believe at the next meeting, I am going to have a show and tell and ask everyone to bring something that has helped them in their post journey in Weight loss, such as recipes, vitamins, lotions, clothing ideas, etc.

Thanks,
Lindy

It's almost been 2 years since my WLS.  I am excited to report that I have maintained a consistent weight of 107 now since June time period.  For a while, I was actually very concerned about my weight being below 110, which is considered normal for my height.  However, I basically teter between 105-110 and that is it.  But the majority of the time, I remain constant at 107.  I feel good at this weight, I am no longer feeling self conscious about loosing too much weight and feel that I look and feel the way I did growing up all the way through my early college years.

I am also excited that my twin sister is taking her first step tomorrow towards possibly going down this journey to have the WLS.  It will be neat if she gets it before or around the same time I did and can possibly use all of my data to help her track her progress and success based on the fac that we are identical and have similar features.

Tomorrow I go for my first appointment with a breast surgeon due to a problem with my mammogram showing calcifications.  I spoke with the radiologist and she said that she has seen it whereby a WLS patient has ended up with calcifications due to the extreme weight loss.  Due to where they are, it has to actually be a surgical cut out versus a needle biopsy.  85% of calcifications are benign, and since the other 15% is such a high number, that is why I have to have the surgery to rule it out.  I am keeping positive and not letting it get to me so far.  We will see how tomorrow goes.

I don't post much on OH anymore, mainly due to the fact that I took a new job in February that has require a tremendous amount of work on my part in setting up and implementing process improvement. I have worked 80-90 hours weeks at a time and I am just too exhausted to get online and update or chat anymore.

I do still participate and lead the WLS Support group in Terrell Texas and we have been able to successfully meet all year long bi-monthly, except 2-3 meetings, which we had to cancel due to low participation.

I continue to be a leader and I hope to continue to keep this group going, because I know how critical and how supportive and positively motivating it was for me in my journey.  I just wish that more people in the area would jump in and offer up to lead and help manage the group, so we can add new members to ensure that it never dies.  I don't really need as much support now, but I do still find that the friendship that I find in the group and the social aspect of it helps me feel good about the long journey that I have been on.  I hope that I am giving back as much as I have received out of it.

Well best of luck to those still reading and I hope you have great success.

Hugs,
Lindy

I measured today for the first time in a real long time.  Wow what a wake up call.

 

Breast 32

Waist 25

Hips 32

Buttocks 35

Thigh 18

 

I couldn't believe that my waist was under a 27.  I know growing up it was always around a 24-26, and I know my mom said that I just l look like I did in high school, but this really made me realize it is true.

I still know i need to gain weight. I am hoping to at least get to normal again, that would be a start.  I worry about eating and gaining too fast and getting into old bad habits that I won't be able to control when I need control again.

It hurts to hear people say they don't want to loose to be skin and bones...well do they think that I purposely did this? Hello no, I don't like it anymore myself.  I want to be healthy and normal, what mjore can a person wish for.  People don't understand that all I did was follow the rules exactly like the doctor said to.  It wasn't until the last month that the nut said I had to kind of start eating more of the good carbs and eating more meals etc and to eat more meals a day to gain.

I do extremely well at hibachi grill, I can put away a lot of food. I don't know if it is because it is served in courses or what, but I just seem to do so well.   It helps that I really really like the food too.  I also do well with the Chili's guiltess chicken platter. I can eat a little over half, barely leaving much meat.  I eat the rice the corn and get black beans.  I have almost gotten to where I can eat a complete plate of spaghetti with marinara from olive garden, that is after a saland and half of a bread stick.  I just have to rest a while then start eating again.

Well that is all for now....Keep up the good work, following the rules and being diligent about getting to support meetings is the key. Give back to others and pay it forward, this will be your best reward and it will help you to set an example not only for the person you support, but it will force you to be accountable to do the right thing in order to not fail in their eyes.  Be competitive within yourself and give yourself self talk to be true to yourself.   Too much work to have this surgery to not reach your goals. 

Hugs,

Lindy

It has been a very long time since I have been out on the boards. I am just so busy with work, it is incredibly hard for me to get online.  I guess that I am settling down and realizing that 105 just might be the weight were I remain.  I go up to 108 over the weekend, but by Wednesday's I am back down to 105.  I am still fitting size 0/1's and some 2's, if I am lucky.  Clothes shopping is absolutely no fun anymore because I don't like to wear juniors or kids clothes.  I want professional business clothes in my size.  I have a lot of clothes that I just need to get altered.  I just fear as soon as I do I will  gain weight and then have to let them out, etc.  Don't get me wrong, at this point, I do want to gain weight.  I need to gain about 10-15 lbs to look healthier.  

I have to eat very often.  I went to the dr office and they did a REM study and my metabolism is extremely high.  I have to eat 1725 calories a day just to maintain 103 (that was almost a month ago).   I eat often and small meals.  The dietician wants me to get more protein in.  I try, I really do.  With work it is hard to journal.  I was never very good at that anyway.  

I can pretty much eat whatever I want in moderation.  I do not do well with sweets though.  They make me extremely exhausted and just an overall sluggish feeling.  So I try to not ever allow these.  I feel best when I just resist and don't have them, but periodically I give into my desires.  Then I say never again.  Oh well, I guess we all know how that goes.

We are going on a Hawaiin cruise in late Aug early Sept.  I am hoping to build up some endurance to be able to do lots of fun excursion.  I am very week in my upper arms now, so I have got to get to the gym and get with it.  I swim in the pool but I just don't feel that giving me the strength or energy I will need.

Well, I hope everyone is doing weel.  I am still feeling extremely happy about my choice to have this surgery and if I had it to do over again, I would definitely do it.

Hugs,
Lindy 

I guess I am where I am going to be.  I am okay with it and like the size I have become.  I am wearing size 2 and 4's in misses and size 3/5 in juniors.  I don't like many juniors because of the small zipper.  

My labs have been awesome, I feel great and am so thankful for this surgery.  

Praying for my twin to have it sometime soon too, so she can feel as wonderful as I do.

Hugs,
Lindy

Sensitive post on TMB - Beware of Trolls, not all are just trying to put up discord, make statements, bring up interesting conversations, controversy, get topics back to real weight loss issues, but instead, they lurk there trying to delv into personal life, make unwarranted, un-neccessary convserations about you on the internet like a High school teenager, then others try to go out and defend them and act as though you were the perpetrator that began the crisis.

All I can say is posting fuming emails on the message boards or internet is similar to "Road Rage".  People easily make statements, comments and do not care what they say or do, because they can hide behind a the wheel of the keyboard and mouse and lash out uncivilized in a way that they feel there will be no backlash, no cops involved and that they can get by with it.  The problem is that everyone who posts on the boards, regardless of where they live, what stage of weight loss they are in or not is a real valid human being.  No one should present bodily harm, via threatening messages or defamation of character on the internet without realizing that it has true negative impact on peoples lives.

Just yesterday I watched a Dr Phil show where a teenager, who was 14, killed herself, because a neighborhood (friend or ex-friend's) mother perpetrated in creating a fictisous myspace page as a 20 year old male to find out if the girl was slandering her daughter. Her employee, daughter and herself were involved in pretending to be this guy. Then they basically said they no longer wanted to be friends with the person, started lashing out at her on the internet, etc...It hurt the little girl so much, she hung herself.  Now, I know I don't know all of the police details, but what I know is there is enough internet bullying.  I read it, see it in posts to my 14 year old niece, I see how she puts on her space that she is depressed and sad.  People, like I said, feelings and emotions are real.   All I ask is don't do on the internet, what you would not do, sitting in the same room with a person.  Be your true self, no matter where you are on the boards, in person, in a car, etc.  Be kind, caring, understanding, that not everyone has a good day, drives properly in their lanes, knows proper internet etiquitte, etc.

Just be a good person, because what comes around goes around.
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/TX/a,messageboard/action,replies/board_id,4845/cat_id,4445/topic_id,3493990/
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/TX/board_id,4845/cat_id,4445/topic_id,3493014/a,messageboard/action,replies/#27339408
http://www.obesityhelp.com/forums/TX/board_id,4845/cat_id,4445/topic_id,3489333/a,messageboard/action,replies/#27292426

Basically, I will be at Dr goal by my 11 month anniversary which is Christmas Eve.

Wow, what a wonderful year and a magnificent transformation my life has been this last 11 months.

I am super happy, my marriage is extremely awesome and all of my plans for having a child in my home are lining up..

I wish everyone continued success in 2008.  I have been super busy the last two weeks with work. I hope to get to everyones personal email messages soon.

Hugs and Happy Holidays!
Lindy