dawnmaher

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This month has gone so fast!  I am feeling really great and have lost 22 lbs so far.  I have been on a weight loss stall for over a week now which seems strange as I am eating so little and excercising and working.  But, i guess it takes time.  

My best news is that I am no longer diabetic, have no more high blood pressure, no more high colesterol and do not have to use my sleep apnea machine anymore!   That was my biggest goal and I have achieved it at only 1 month post op.  It seems like a miracle.

I changed my avatar because I had my hair cut, love it! and my weight loss is showing in my face too.  

I am very glad I had this RNY.  I would do it all again, and again, and again.

Well, I came thru the surgery with flying colors.  Spent 2 days in the hospital and before I came home I was able to give up 4 of my 7 medications!  You can imagine how great that felt!

Since then my sugars are well under control, in the normal range both fasting and non fasting with only 1 oral medication twice per day.  I expect that its only a matter of time before I am no longer a diabetic!  wooo hooo
That and my other co-morbidities are the primary reason I decided on surgery.  

I had a few really tough days with head hunger, never realized that food commercials occur every 2 minutes on tv!  I made it thru the worst and am now feeling pretty much on an even keel.  Protein drinks however are disqusting to me and make me gag.  I have resorted to some soft mushed up protein rich foods to help get some in my system.  So far no problems, no dumping and no pain.  

I have been walking at a good clip every day and just purchased a treadmill which sits now in my living room.  No excuses this time!

Already I feel better than before surgery.  My skin looks amazing, clear and rosy, i already sleep alot less than before, i am losing weight and have more energy than I thought possible at this stage.  

I don't know if I would have done so well without this forum and all of you my WLS friends.  Your support and information has carried me this far.  
I only hope to be as supportive of others in the future as you have been to me.  I don't know how people do this without this type of support system.  I never ,ever feel alone.  

Soon I will post pics of me on surgery day and 1 month out.  We shall see what the camera reveals.  Love to you all, my new friends.
Dawn

Tomorrow is the big day and I am very excited.  Not too awful nervous yet.  Hope it stays that way.  
Like most of you I have been "overweight" since about age 12 when I started developing.  Too much attention was focused on my new emerging body from well meaning family members and some not so well meaning dirty old men that I think my fat started accumulating as a way to compensate and keep those personal messages away.  I had no idea how to handle that attention so I ate.  
When I look back upon pics of myself after giving birth to my children and I was only 150 lbs, I cannot believe I thought I was really fat!  If only I can look that good again after WLS!  Funny what the mind can do to the body and how we can so skew our own reality.  
Now at 238lbs i am not even at my highest weight of 256 but my health is getting so much worse.  Type 11 Diabetes, high blood pressure, high colesterol, sleep apnea are my demons.  What next~!  At the age of now 51, I am feeling way to old and want my health and my youth back.  
Everyone in my life has been very supportive of this surgery.  And I was so afraid they wouldn't be.  
This forum has been the best.  So much support and so many new friends taking the same journey.  It is amazing and life changing.
I can only imagine what the future might bring and it looks pretty good from where I sit.  
Tomorrow is the big day!