12 1/2 years Post-Op

Mar 24, 2014

Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would be able to get to goal and and maintain my weight loss. I do believe my pre op research help me a lot in achieving my goals. I had a lot of bumps in the roads, but never lost focus of why I had this surgery and I have never taken this surgery for granted. I never wanted to be one of those people who after 6 months went back to bad habits and gained their weight back, Gaining weight back from mechanical issues is so understandable, but to gain weight back because of unhealthy choices and over eating is sad. Maybe because I had surgery back in the day when they had to cut you open with 12 inch+ incision and had to spend at least 4+ days in the hospital with pain that was so mind blowing and makes child birth look like a walk in the park! maybe that was enough incentitive to keep me on the right path. The one thing thing I do know is I love being skinny and semi-healthy, I say semi healthy because these past 6 months I have slacked on taken my supplements and I'm paying the big price. I actually missed used my tool. I went back to school this past year and after the 1st semester of only taking 3 classes, I thought wow I can do this and I took 6 classes the next semester well needless to say that has kicked my butt!!!! I didn't have time to do much of anything except sleep go to school and study and that is what I did. During the this time being I had no time I stopped eating because it was time consuming. I didn't do it on purpose I just didn't have time, for the most part I was eating but maybe only 3 bites of my dinner, now keep in mind I hate the feeling of being hungry so I had made it a point from day one to keep my pouch small and to never stretch it out, so this played out well for me, but before I overloaded my time I would eat 5-6 times a day small meals and take my supplements , about a week ago I was feeling so bad I decided to get my blood work, WOW, is all my can say and my doctor was in shock and threaten to hospitalize me, of course I talked him out of that after I explained what lead to this. I had Totally bottomed out on all my major mineral and vitamin counts. So Doctor has me on some shots and some major pills/liquid minerals ( which to me is a small meals in themselves) but he said he is giving me 3 weeks to start heading in a positive direction in the blood counts , he told me because of this pickle I got myself into , it can take up to 2 weeks to just start feeling human again and up to 2 months for my body to start replenishing the deleted stores and up a year for my blood count and body storage to be normal again. Yes lesson learned , I will never stop taking my supplements. I will never overload my time where I don't have time to keep myself healthy. Today is the first day in over 10 days that I can even function( getting out of bed without the fear of missing a class) I'm still very fatigued and typing this has me ready to go back to bed but this an improvement compared to last week where I had to have the whole family and 3 alarm clocks set at different times set to get me out of bed. So just going by how I feel I know I'm headed in a positive direction , I learn very fast , I will never do this again to myself just like I learned 12 years ago I will never over eat again and get fat again. LESSON FROM THIS FOLLOW ALL THE RULES AND TOOLS IM GIVING TO LEAD HEALTHY SKINNY LIFE.

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