My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Drinking Enough Fluids

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Drinking Enough Fluids

I know how important it is to drink a lot of water, but I have always had trouble drinking a lot. When I did, I was never ate as I had no appetite. I haven't noticed any issues yet, but I am still only drinking about the same amount of fluids as I did before the surgery. I find it most difficult to remember the 30 minute rule of not drinking 30 minutes before or after I eat. This is especially hard as sometimes I am hungry almost every hour, so I cannot find the time to do my sipping.

I have noticed that I feel able to eat a bit of food, so I wonder if my pouch is a little larger than some. I think I can eat at least 2 or 3 ounces at a time without any issue or uncomfortable feeling. I stop myself from eating more for fear of not losing weight.

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llouOctober 20, 2013 at 12:10 AM
I eat 2 ounces of protein and then some vegetables so I think you are getting the same amount in. I find the water thing a bit hard. I'm constantly reminding myself to drink!
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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.

Saturday, October 19, 2013

Drinking Enough Fluids

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