My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : The Holiday's are Almost Over!`

Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Holiday's are Almost Over!`

YAY! I CANNOT WAIT FOR THE HOLIDAY'S TO BE OVER!

I don't want them to be over because I am not into the holidays, I love the holiday's. I am just tired of all the extra food around. Since I know my husband doesn't read this, I will admit, he is an eater. He loves food, and it is his motivation. If I ask him to go do something in town he usually would rather just sit home and watch TV unless I say, you want to go out to lunch. Then he is out the door and in the car in a flash. So, of course, he has been pigging down the food like usual over the holiday's and I have been baking cakes, cookies, fudge, food dishes, making eggnog with brandy, and whatever other fattening dish of food there is. Thank goodness I have a small stomach right now or all this food would be hard to say no thank you to.

So far I have noticed not very much of anything upsets my stomach or gives me dumping. According to what I have read, dumping is basically a hot flash with flushing and racing heart beat. Since I am used to that having already went through menopause, I don't even notice it. I have noticed with me, my so called "dumping" doesn't happen from food of any sorts, but rather by over exertion or pain.

Since my side is still not fully healed and I have issues doing my normal daily physical activities, exercising at a normal pace, and anything that requires some strength from the stomach. I am amazed at how much your stomach is used during your daily routine until you begin to do small things, like lift up my dishes to the cupboards and I feel those muscles pull and I almost drop all the dishes.
Anyhow, pulls and pains like this begin to sting and burn and then my "dumping" begins. I start sweating and flushing and my heart races. So, I have associated my dumping with pain rather than food, and it really isn't that bad.

Once New Year's is over and hubby has had his sauerkraut and black eyed peas, he is ready to begin to watch what he eats and exercise. That I will see if he sticks with since after about a week, he usually has an excuse to not do it with me.

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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.

Sunday, December 29, 2013

The Holiday's are Almost Over!`

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