Stephanie B.
Four Year Anniversary!!
Jan 31, 2011
WOW!! I can hardly believe that four years have gone by already. But four years ago today I experienced a life changing event....I had my gastric bypass surgery....and today, I am more than half my body weight....from 327 to 161.4 as of about 8 pm tonight. This journey has been just that a journey...full of ups and downs and some tough lessons....but through it all..I wouldnt trade it for nothing. I thank God for the blessing and for bringing this far with out complications and for keeping me. And I am going to do better and honor Him by doing what I said I would do if He allowed me to have this surgery and stick to the rules and do what I know I need to do each day instead of what I want to do just because "everyone else or normal ppl do it". I know I am not a normal person as far as my eating habits and behaviors or else I would not have ended up at 327 pounds and needed RNY.....oh well....Its all good. I wish I could say I have been the model patient that Isaid I would be before I had the surgery...but I was only that for about 9 months and then I have struggled to do the right thing. So many ppl think that having weight loss surgery is the easy way out and they just dont know.....this has got to be one of the hardest things I have ever had to do....because the surgery is the easy part....its what happens once you get home from the hospital when the work begins...or not even then...I would say the 18 months or so were a breeze for me....then the weight regain began....because I had started to think I could eat any thing I wanted and started to graze all day and eat between meals...not eat protein first and eating simple carbs...you know all the things we said we wouldn't do and were told we shouldn't do before we had the surgery.....I was breaking all the rules...the onely ones I followed from day one and still follow is no drinking with meals and an hour after meals and I don't drink alcohol....I never was a big drinker before I had the surgery anyway so that was not a challenge. I got down as low as 149 for about 2 minutes and then stablized at 155 for a few months...and then I woke up one day and was up to 190 lbs!! Imagine my horror and embarrasment! It was a struggle to they weight back off and it is a struggle now to maintain now...but I do know what Phillipans 4:13 tells us..I can do all things thru Christ who strenghtens me.....And if I do what I am supposed to do..He will be with me every step of the way. He did not make it possible for me to have this surgery and give me access to a free gym at work, and an affordable place to work out after work and so many other resources for me not to succeed.....so as long as I stay the course....I can't help but win. I am looking forward to this next year and staying the course and walking closer with God so that I can be stronger in other areas in my life.
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About Me
Chattanooga, TN
Location
26.4
BMI
Surgery
01/31/2007
Surgery Date
Jan 23, 2007
Member Since
Before & After
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December 2006
327lbs
10 Year Anniversary
158lbs
