My Weightloss Journey through Roux en Y Gastric Bypass (RNY) : Home From Hawaii

Sunday, March 23, 2014

Home From Hawaii

Well, I am back home from Hawaii and happy to be so. Most people think of Hawaii as a land of paradise, maybe it is at a local hotel resort where you do not go out onto the island and see the real Hawaii.

Anyhow, after getting sick while there, I am still getting over this awful cold I caught now. I thought for sure I would have gained a lot of weight while there since we ate out at almost every meal for 12 days. Luckily when I arrived home I had actually dropped 1.4 pounds. What a surprise.

Now, I just need to get back into my daily routine and keep working on my weight loss. I still have 49.4 pounds to go to reach my goal. It is getting so close I can almost touch it. I cannot slow down now!

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UnknownMarch 28, 2014 at 7:56 AM
That’s the spirit, Robyn. Weight loss is really a long and hard journey, but the end result will always be worth it. Just always remember to keep faith and do it for all the right reasons. Cheers to a healthier life. So, how was Hawaii anyway? :)
Carol Baker
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Robyn McLaughlinApril 10, 2014 at 1:47 PM
Thank you for your kind and encouraging words. Hawaii was nice, but I if I go again, I would like to explore a different island with less population and more foliage.
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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, March 23, 2014

Home From Hawaii

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