My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Happy Valentine's Day!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day! - Half way to goal.

As of today I am down 64.8 pounds with only 52.8 pounds to go to reach my goal weight.

To my pleasant surprise this morning, I pulled out a pair of smaller jeans I had in the closet and they fit. I can wear a size 14 now. I haven't been able to fit into a 14 again. The only bad news, the zipper was broke on the jeans so I had to toss them. Oh well, on to smaller sizes soon enough.

Another real surprise to me was when I picked up a shirt for the summer yesterday at the local Target store. I debated between getting a large and a medium. I finally tossed the medium into the shopping cart expecting it would be skin tight and I will need to slim down a bit more, but by summer I should be wear it. Well, when I came home and tried it on out of curiosity to see how tight it is and about how much more I will need to lose to fit the shirt properly, I was amazed it actually fit.

Here is a picture my 7 year old took of me with it on. She isn't the best photographer, and of course the tag is still on it.You can still see a pouch where my belly is still large, but after all the swelling I am surprised it is down that small.

On a bright note, my hair has stopped falling out and is beginning to grow back and I am using my treadmill everyday and it is going well.

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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 14, 2014

Happy Valentine's Day! - Half way to goal.

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