My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : New Year, New Me!

Sunday, January 5, 2014

New Year, New Me!

Out with the fat old Robyn, In with the thin Robyn. That is my motto for 2014. This year will not be another year that I was unsuccessful at dieting and exercising to lose weight, this year, I will lose the rest of the weight and I will be thinner, and happier, and healthier.

I look forward to doing all the things I used to do before I developed diabetes and gained all the weight.

I am looking forward now to going to Hawaii in March and seeing if my shoulders are still achy all the time. Since I have moved here I have had problems, but I assumed it was due to gaining weight, until I left for vacation and the pain went away and only returned when I arrived back home.

This will be a good little test to discover it is truly the gravitational pull and barometric pressure here or if I need to make an appointment with a surgeon and have my shoulders operated on. It isn't easy to exercise when you cannot raise you arms above your head or you wake up at night in pain because you moved and it hurts. If surgery is what it takes to help me also get to the new me, then surgery it is.

This picture was taken on New Years Eve. Weight loss to 12/31/2013 - 45 pounds!

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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, January 5, 2014

New Year, New Me!

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