My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Purchased a Treadmill Today!

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Purchased a Treadmill Today!

I am officially 5 months and a few days post-op. I still have some physical restrictions, but I am anxious and motivated to get moving. Since I am still limited to exercising based on my injuries and pain, I purchased a treadmill so I can at least began walking every day in an effort to get back into physical shape, as well as, get the pounds coming off again.

Today my weight was 170.4. I have been sitting here and bouncing up a pound or two now for last couple of weeks. I WANT THAT LAST .05 OUNCES TO GO SO I CAN SAY . . . I am finally in the 160's.

It is now 34 days until we fly to Hawaii for 12 days and I hope to drop at least 10 pounds. That means I need to keep my goal at 2 pounds a week for the next 5 weeks.

Wish me luck.

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UnknownFebruary 7, 2014 at 10:32 AM
Woo hoo!!!! Way to go Robyn - just checking in on you - you are doing SO well! Hawaii-------------- ahhhhhhh - the closest I hope to get this year is to get down to visit my parents in Lakeland, Florida for a week or ten days. They have been spending the winter months down there since they retired 28yrs ago. I'm hoping to go in late Feb or early March. In any case - it will be positively warmer than it is here. -9 degrees celsius with a windchill of -25degrees. Brrr - I need to get back on my treadmill - hope you are enjoying yours. Have a wonderful holiday!
Mary
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Robyn McLaughlinFebruary 14, 2014 at 1:27 PM
Thanks Mary! Yes, I am getting anxious about going now. It is only 19 days until I will be in Hawaii and all I can think about is WARM weather! It has been a long and cold winter this year and I am ready for some 70 degree weather.

I am loving the treadmill and it is getting a workout.

I hope it warms up soon for you.
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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.

Thursday, January 30, 2014

Purchased a Treadmill Today!

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