My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Hiding in plain sight.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Hiding in plain sight.

The countdown begins. There is only 24 days until I have RNY surgery. I have had numerous questions on forums why I am choosing RNY over VGS since I only need to lose around 100 pounds. The number one reason . . . type 2 diabetes. RNY Gastric Bypass surgery gives me a 95% chance of my diabetes disappearing. Check out these two articles about discoveries . . . http://forecast.diabetes.org/magazine/research-shorts/cutting-out-middleman-another-benefit-gastric-bypass and http://azstarnet.com/news/science/health-med-fit/gastric-bypass-can-control-even-reverse-diabetes/article_615a258e-5beb-5630-8839-abc780aef252.html

I will admit, I was happy to come home from helping my parents after my father’s surgery this summer rather than going to visit my family and friends as I did not want them to see me this heavy. As it is, I already avoid the camera and post no pictures of myself so they cannot see how large I have become.

The thought of not having to hide from the camera any longer or avoid going to family functions or holidays so people cannot see how fat I am is a very comforting thought.

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My Story

Growing up I was always thin and never had to worry about weight issues. I was lucky and thankful. My mother had always had weight issues. I recall being teased in school about having a fat mom. Back in the 1970's it was rare for people to be obese.

Kid's would yell out to me that I was going to be a whale just like my mom when I grew up. It wasn't really nice of them, but they didn't understand. I watched my mother suffer in silence and do the roller coaster with her weight from one diet to another. My mother developed diabetes in her late 30's and her weight loss efforts were all unsuccessful. She is still overweight today.

For me, I was quite the opposite. I had taken after my father at least for most of my life. I was never larger than a size 7, I had five children and was thin again in weeks. I was the woman other women hated. Ironic as it sounds, I was teased in childhood I would be fat when I grew up, and then I was despised by other women because I wasn't fat after I had children.

Then at age 42 I became pregnant with my sixth child. My pregnancy was great without complications other than I had developed gestational diabetes. I weighed 193lbs just prior to delivery and after a c-section I was down to 170 lbs. I didn't have too much to lose to get back down to size.

That is when the weigh gain began. I was tired all the time. I had no energy. I just kept gaining weight. Within a year of my daughters birth I now weighed my per-delivery weight.

What was going on? Not one doctor thought to check that my gestational diabetes had developed in type 2 diabetes after delivery.

I did the norm, I tried all the diets, not one worked. Then my doctor upon my request tested my sugar and was shocked to see it was 362, and confirmed what I was thinking all along. I was now diabetic and could not lose the weight and I was still gaining.

I started Metformin, but still no weight loss even after 9 months of taking it.

Since, it is too difficult to get any type of weight loss surgery in the United States, I have taken control of my life and I am going with the surgery in Mexico.

I have decided to use Roux en Y Gastric Bypass Surgery. This surgery also known as RNY has a 95% chance that I will no longer have diabetes and the weight loss is the bonus to me.

Pounds to Lose.

Friday, July 26, 2013

Hiding in plain sight.

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