My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Finally weighed in at 169 pounds

Friday, February 7, 2014

Finally weighed in at 169 pounds

I have finally weighed in at 169.6 pounds today. I am very happy with the weight loss. I did not expect to have lost anything this week. I have been walking at least 20 minutes a day on my treadmill and after the first couple of days, I put on 2 pounds. I assumed it was due to building back some muscle and I did not expect to lose back down for a couple more weeks.

If feels good psychologically to weigh 169.6 even though my weight loss for the week was only .6 ounces. It does something to you mentally when you break each 10 pound marker. I look much better in my clothes now, but I am a long way from wearing any kind of bathing suit. I tried one on last week in preparations of going Hawaii next month, but when I saw how awful I looked in it, I made the decision to buy some capri type spandex work out pants and a spandex tank top to wear at the beach and in the water instead. This way I can still be out in the water in my daughter and not scare off all the people on the beach. On the bright side, by covering up, I will not have to worry about getting a spray tan to cover up how white I have gotten over the years.

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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.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Finally weighed in at 169 pounds

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