My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : 58 pounds lost, 59 to go!

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

58 pounds lost, 59 to go!

Today when I weighed myself I was pleasantly surprised: I weighed 174.6, a weight loss of 58 pounds since the day I went to Mexico to have surgery. I did not expect to drop any more weight this week since I usually only lose one to two pounds per week. It is so early in the week to have already lost 2 pounds. I only hope I can maintain this weight today throughout the rest of the week so my Friday weekly weigh in which I keep my weekly totals will still reflect this.

I am more determined this new year to do many more things than I had previously. I have never been one to make resolutions, but this year was the first and I intended to accomplish the goals I have set for this year.

Good luck to all my followers and readers to keep up the good work in accomplishing the goals you have set for yourself in this new year.

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UnknownJanuary 10, 2014 at 8:51 AM
Wow Robyn - just checking in on your blog - you are doing great and look fantastic! You have had a rough go of it - but are doing so well now! I hope you feel as good as you look! Hawaii!!!!! How exciting!!! That's my husbands dream vacation destination. Maybe someday. Take care-
Mary
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Robyn McLaughlinJanuary 11, 2014 at 8:03 AM
Thank you Mary. Hawaii has always been my dream vacation as well. My niece lives there so, having a place to stay with out cost, really makes a Hawaiian vacation doable. :)
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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.

Tuesday, January 7, 2014

58 pounds lost, 59 to go!

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