Kristy R.
100 Pounds Down
Jun 15, 2009
I just got back from the doctors and I have lost 101.5 pounds, I am so excited. The last 5 pounds seemed to be the slowest and very frustrating, but they are finely gone. Now I have less than 50 pounds before I hit goal.
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Intro
May 13, 2009
Hi,
My name is Kristy and I had gastric bypass surgery about 7 months ago (October 13, 2008). It was the best decision I have ever made. I truly believe that the surgery saved my life, it has brought my diabetes uncontrolled for the first time in my life and I believe I have a healthily future ahead of me.
Before surgery I was an uncontrolled diabetic for the past 22 years, I was slowly eating myself to my grave. I tried dieting, exercising, diet pill, and just about everything you can think of to lose weight. The harder I tried the more weight I gained and the more depressed I got. It wasn't that I was gaining weight, but that I was continually failing at losing weight. I had all but given up on ever losing weight but ever more on living. At that point my mother told me about a lady she knew who had weight loss surgery and how she had lost 100 pounds. I said that sounds great but I truly didn't believe it would work for me. How could it work nothing had work up to this point. But my mother said lets go to the seminar and learn more about the surgical options. We went to the seminar together and I started to believe that surgery might be an option for me.
I ended up going to three seminars and doing a ton of research over the next 18 months before I decided to have surgery. I had two consultations with the surgeon before really starting to make changes in my life. I didn't want to meet with the dietitians at all. I had seen so many dietitians in my life time and nothing they said ever seemed to change my eating habits or my health conditions. I decided that I needed to go even if it didn't change my life, it was the next step in getting to surgery. Something was different about this visit with the dietitian through, I connected with Megan she was about my age and she didn't make me feel guilty or bad about eating habits. She simply listen and suggested changes, she also explained that I should make one change at a time and call her it I needed support. She was great and I still call her if I have questions or need someone to listen.
The part of the process that changed my life the most was meeting Nate the personal trainer at the Bariatric Center, Nate honestly loves exercise and he wants everyone to love exercise. Nate was very encouraging and created an exercise program for me that wasn't painful and I actually wanted to do. After a week of working Nate's program I could feel my body changing. It was at this point that I honestly decided that surgery was the tool that I needed to be successful. I took me two years to truly commit to the surgery and a lot of peoples support. I told everyone I knew that I was going to have surgery and I asked them to help me through it. I asked that they keep me honest to myself by reminding me that this was my decision and that it would change my life but only if I changed my habits. I got a lot of mixed reactions from people but most of them just wanted to help in anyway they could. I continued to work out weekly with Nate before the surgery.
The morning of the surgery I was so nervous, I actually thought to myself I wonder if they would notice if I ran away rate now. I had faith that Dr. Trieu would complete my surgery successfully but I was still nervous I won't be able to hold up my end of the bargain. The surgery went great and I wasn't in much pain at all. On day four I went home from the hospital and was off my pain medication by day five. Believe it or not the surgery is the easy part. It is all the life changes that I am still working on that are hard.
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My name is Kristy and I had gastric bypass surgery about 7 months ago (October 13, 2008). It was the best decision I have ever made. I truly believe that the surgery saved my life, it has brought my diabetes uncontrolled for the first time in my life and I believe I have a healthily future ahead of me.
Before surgery I was an uncontrolled diabetic for the past 22 years, I was slowly eating myself to my grave. I tried dieting, exercising, diet pill, and just about everything you can think of to lose weight. The harder I tried the more weight I gained and the more depressed I got. It wasn't that I was gaining weight, but that I was continually failing at losing weight. I had all but given up on ever losing weight but ever more on living. At that point my mother told me about a lady she knew who had weight loss surgery and how she had lost 100 pounds. I said that sounds great but I truly didn't believe it would work for me. How could it work nothing had work up to this point. But my mother said lets go to the seminar and learn more about the surgical options. We went to the seminar together and I started to believe that surgery might be an option for me.
I ended up going to three seminars and doing a ton of research over the next 18 months before I decided to have surgery. I had two consultations with the surgeon before really starting to make changes in my life. I didn't want to meet with the dietitians at all. I had seen so many dietitians in my life time and nothing they said ever seemed to change my eating habits or my health conditions. I decided that I needed to go even if it didn't change my life, it was the next step in getting to surgery. Something was different about this visit with the dietitian through, I connected with Megan she was about my age and she didn't make me feel guilty or bad about eating habits. She simply listen and suggested changes, she also explained that I should make one change at a time and call her it I needed support. She was great and I still call her if I have questions or need someone to listen.
The part of the process that changed my life the most was meeting Nate the personal trainer at the Bariatric Center, Nate honestly loves exercise and he wants everyone to love exercise. Nate was very encouraging and created an exercise program for me that wasn't painful and I actually wanted to do. After a week of working Nate's program I could feel my body changing. It was at this point that I honestly decided that surgery was the tool that I needed to be successful. I took me two years to truly commit to the surgery and a lot of peoples support. I told everyone I knew that I was going to have surgery and I asked them to help me through it. I asked that they keep me honest to myself by reminding me that this was my decision and that it would change my life but only if I changed my habits. I got a lot of mixed reactions from people but most of them just wanted to help in anyway they could. I continued to work out weekly with Nate before the surgery.
The morning of the surgery I was so nervous, I actually thought to myself I wonder if they would notice if I ran away rate now. I had faith that Dr. Trieu would complete my surgery successfully but I was still nervous I won't be able to hold up my end of the bargain. The surgery went great and I wasn't in much pain at all. On day four I went home from the hospital and was off my pain medication by day five. Believe it or not the surgery is the easy part. It is all the life changes that I am still working on that are hard.
