My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : As the Hair Falls Out . . .

Saturday, November 2, 2013

As the Hair Falls Out . . .

First of all I am excited this morning as my weigh in showed I am now down to 187.4. Wooo Hooo!

As, I have been anticipating my hair to begin to fall out about now since I have read it starts somewhere between 2 and 3 months and finally stops about 7 to 9 months, I have been watching for loose falling hairs. I have occasionally noticed one here and one there, but yesterday I did some pull through my hair with my fingers and had more than just a few, my hair has begun the process of falling out. It isn't falling out in clumps in case you are curious, it is just one here and one there, but it is all over. It is more of a thinning. It does not bother me at this time as I have always had extremely thick hair. I have decided to let my hair grow out during this time frame and when it has completed the process I will see how my hair looks once it is done and begins to grow back in.

Sometimes are hair can do funny things after stuff like this so I will wait and see if my blonde grows in a bit darker or if I have my grey hair growing in at that time. Only after that will I decide what I need to do with my hair to manage it looking appropriately. My conclusion is . . . Let's wait and see.

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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, November 2, 2013

As the Hair Falls Out . . .

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