Cat's RNY Dec2

good luck!!! I'm scheduled for Wednesday

Good luck I'm December 2nd

My RNY is scheduled for December 2nd I'm nervous and excited

Good luck I'm December 2nd

Post Op

Again I've documented some of my experiences in other threads so I'll keep this section really short.

I did not have any complications post op. I was taken out of the Recovery Room and into my own hospital room fairly quickly, and I was walk, walk, walking and sip, sip, sipping as soon as I did. I only spent one night in the hospital before going home. When the surgeon came to visit me the day after my surgery he said it looked like I hadn't even had surgery. That was a plus to me.

I haven't had too much trouble eating since the surgery. I stayed fairly true to my surgeon's/nutritionist's recommendations which seem to be almost completely different then most people on here. If I did stray off the recommendations it was only by a day or so. In other words, I started trying meats, chicken, salads two days before my "green sheet" recommended.

As far as food I stay away from, bread for sure which is a good thing. I won't even have a sandwich. chicken sometimes gives me a problem, but that may be more of an issue with me not chewing well I think. A few weeks ago I baked some chicken wings at home; barely a handful. But I had two of them and vomited them out shortly thereafter. The next day I tried again, and vomited again.

I'm not sure I've experienced dumping although I did have something that might have been dumping Halloween weekend. I went back to Texas to visit with a friend and her daughter. We went to San Antonio to hang out for the weekend. We went to one mall and stopped at a yogurt shop to get some yogurt. I had a small bowl with very little yogurt and added a cherry, a strawberry, and some pineapple. About 20 minutes later, I could feel my heart rate go up, and I had to make a run to the bathroom. There I calmed down and seemed fine after that.

Another issue I had was at Chipotle. I personally had never been there before, but in Texas we have Freebirds and in Austin, Cabo Bob's which basically serve the same thing (and where I've gone previously when I lived won there) so I decided to try it. I ordered a steak salad. I only had maybe 4 or 5 bites before I felt that tightness in my chest. Not too long after that I vomited it all back up. So unhappy about that, but I'm not trying that again.

Oh, yeah, and the pork chop. I found a recipe to make pork chops in a slow cooker. I made it one afternoon, and the pork chops came out fantastic...meat just coming off and shredded like a pot roast in a slow cooker. Again, just a few bites, and it came back out.

I still have not tried a steak mainly because I'm worried that I'll vomit it out again. Ground meat is pretty much the only "red meat" that I've tried. At home I basically cook everything now. I live alone so I have plenty of leftovers that last a really long time. I have a vacuum sealer so that helps keep my food when I use it and put the excess food in the freezer for later.

When I was in Texas for Halloween we went out to eat for every meal which was a bit of a challenge. I ended up either just having a Soup or salad everywhere we went. I'll admit to hating being limited to that at every restaurant, but I didn't want to risk getting sick in front of company. I think somebody on here recommended taking some kind of plastic bag everywhere you went. That's a bit extreme, but I'd rather avoid vomiting all together.

At the moment, I don't seem to have daily Protein or calorie guidelines from my nutritionist. The only recommendation that I have is that I eat 3 solid Protein meals per day which also means no Protein shakes. At my next appointment I will ask about the protein and calorie intake.

The Path to Surgery

I still resisted the idea of doing WLS but finally late last year I got up to 440 pounds due to a new blood pressure medication that caused me to retain Water. The first weekend in December, 2014, I went back home to Texas to attend a cousin's wedding. I went to the wedding wearing the same slacks and shirt I had bought when I lost my job for interviews and such. But guess what? They didn't fit at all, and I was so uncomfortable all afternoon and night long wearing a shirt that was way too tight, and slacks that were just ill fitting as well.

So finally, I went to a Bariatric Surgery Seminar right before Christmas last year and met with the surgeon in February of this year. My insurance required six months of supervised weight loss and wanted me to lose at least 22 pounds. My surgeon wanted me to lose 30-50 pounds before surgery. He put me on a "Lean Cuisine" diet. Basically all I was to eat was a light Breakfast and then Lean Cuisine meals for lunch and dinner. Obviously that is probably still not the healthiest diet, but along with a change in my blood pressure medicine I lost 30 pounds in 6 short weeks. Basically all that Water I had retained previously melted off...or out.

Then the stalls happened. I was having a really hard time losing much more weight month to month. I mean, I would lose 1-2 pounds a month between the first of April and the 1st of June, but nothing like those first 30 pounds.

In May I did the unthinkable and googled bariatric surgery complications. I got so scared and begin to doubt wanting this surgery so badly that I almost quit!! Thankfully I did stay the course and decided to have the surgery.

Finally the weight started melting off again. By my last visit with the surgeon pre-op in July I had lost a little over 40 pounds since early February. With a few weeks before my surgery they recommended I still continue to lose weight, but I thought I might have a bit of a tough time with that because I was going home to Texas at the end of July for my food funerals. You know, tacos, BBQ, fantastic mexican food and mom's home cooking. I would still try to eat one Lean Cuisine type meal once a day while down there, but dinner was definitely self indulgent.

As it turned out I neither lost nor gained weight while I was in Texas.

My surgery date was August 10th, and three days before, I went on a clear liquid diet. I really wished I had known before with that diet I was going to lose another 13 pounds!! The morning of my surgery I was 369 pounds.

Hello, my name is Ed aka Danger Mouse. I'm originally from Austin, TX but currently live in Upstate NY outside Albany. My surgeon is Dr. Baranov in Saratoga Springs, and I had my RNY Gastric Bypass surgery on August 10th, 2015. This is my story.


IN THE BEGINNING

I posted the meat of this in another thread a week or so ago, but I figured it's a good way to start out a thread on my story and use it as sort of a living diary I guess post op...as long as I can keep it up. So I start at the beginning...

When I see pictures of myself when I was younger (before 9 years of age), I was very skinny.

Before that time my parents would send me to after school daycare. There they would feed us a small snack and then send us outside into the playground until our parents came to pick us up. When I was 9, I started walking the mile home from school. Even with that exercise, being home alone for a couple of hours before the parents got home opened up the entire refrigerator for me, leftovers and all.

I still remember when I turned 13 years old, I had to take a physical to play football. On the paper I turned into the coach I was 5'10" tall and weighed 215 pounds. I never grew another inch as I still stand 5'10".

Strangely enough I was a pretty decent long distance runner. I loved it! I remember clocking in a 6.5 minute mile which seemed pretty impressive for my size and age at the time.

When I got to college, we had to take a couple of PE credits, and I elected to do weightlifting. Our pass/fail grade was based on how much weight we could bench press and leg press divided by our actual weight. That was quite an incentive to hit the weights hard and lose some weight. I started my first freshman semester at 265 pounds and got down to 238 pounds a year later.

I would do the weightlifting class Monday and Wednesday afternoon then head home and run 3 miles.

Then my sophomore year, it all fell apart. I became a delivery driver for Papa John's. Oh, yeah! Free food!! It was all over after that. I never ran again and very rarely lifted any more weights.

Unfortunately I don't have any weight statistics from when I was 19 until I was 31. I never went to the doctor or made any effort to weigh myself. My guess is that I got upwards of 350+ pounds before 2003 when I started exhibiting symptoms of diabetes. I didn't recognize those for what they were though, and I really loved the weight loss that came with being a hardcore diabetic. I remember running into a woman at the time who I had known before the diabetic weight loss, and she mentioned that I looked really good. I felt like I looked good, but oh man, was I feeling crappy in other areas: constantly thirsty, dry mouth, constantly urinating, etc., etc. However, since I had no idea I was diabetic, I was continually downing sodas and just about everything else with tons and tons of sugar.

When I finally saw a doctor in 2006 I was 300 pounds with blood sugars in the 300's. He immediately put me on insulin, and I gradually got up to 390 pounds in a year. I've documented what happened next in other threads, but I stayed at around 390-400 until late 2010. I was put on Victoza and lost about 60 pounds over the course of a year. Then I put it all back on in 2012 and then some.

It was in October 2012 when I went to see my cardiologist at the time that I realized it was probably time to do something. His scale didn't go over 400. They couldn't document my weight at the time, and when the nurse left me in the examination room, I lost it and broke down. That's when my cardiologist recommended WLS. It was something I thought about afterwards, but I really am so commitment-phobic, I just wasn't sure I wanted to put that kind of commitment in myself.

In July of 2013 I lost my job of 15 years due to a reduction in force. That certainly didn't help matters, and I became very depressed. It took me a few months, but I ended up taking a job 1800 miles away from where I lived in Austin, TX to where I now live in Upstate NY north of Albany. That was in February of 2014.

I don't live in Houston any more,, but if your doc is Garth Davis I'm totally jealous!

I found it is so much of a mind set. I did pretty well on my liquid pre op diet but I did cheat. Once I saw it wasn't going to kill me I handled it pretty well. I never did think I was starving. Now post op and eating cream of wheat, dressing, yogurt, mashed taters. I'm glad thanksgiving is over. Now I can concentrate on low carbs and high Protein and do what I'm supposed to do.

December 1st, 2015 is my surgery date. Currently on the pre op diet and already gagging at the Protein Shakes. They're quite sweet and all I can taste is powder but I'm chugging them down.

I'm 12/2 as well, moved up from 1/21. Not gonna lie, I'm kinda freaking out right now - it's less than 3 wks away and I just found out two days ago! I thought I had all this time to mentally prepare, and now it's right in front of me and I feel panicky and haven't slept since I found out. Trying to take deep breaths and just pray that the day comes and goes without a hitch.

My surgery date is December 2, 2015! I have to be on a 2 week high Protein, low carb diet for 2 weeks which begins on next week Tuesday...I'm excited!

My Surgery Is December 8,2015
I'm Excited And Nervous
Start my Clear liquid diet 2 Days Before My Surgery

My time has finally arrived! I am en route to the hospital to have RNY gastric bypass. I am surprisingly calm. I have my wonderful husband and son by my side. Once I get checked in I will post an update. Have a great morning.

Hi! I also had RNY on Nov. 9! I gained 8lbs in the hospital so I was livid! I've lost about 10lbs and was very discourage too. To many people post about losing 20+ the first few weeks. My dr is very happy at where I was at the 2 weeks. He said focus on healing! As the swelling goes down and your body bounces back from the surgery, I will see more weight loss. He also said NOT to do any exercise except walking until after my 4 week post op appointment. The final thing he reminded me is that the more someone weighs, the faster it will come off at first. So if someone else started at 350 and I was at 250, then their first 2 weeks would show a bigger weight loss! Keep your head up! We can do this!

Hi! I'm in San Antonio and I just had RNY on Nov. 9th!!! Good Luck! You will do great!

I'm almost to my 6 month mark and I'm feeling great! I'm 86 pounds down and have about another 75 more to go!

I'm scheduled for Dec 2 RNY
I'm December 2 RNY

Hi I live in Houston and I'm scheduled to have RNY on December 2nd I'm excited and nervous looking for someone to share my journey with

I just got my date yesterday and it is DECEMBER 1st...Merry Christmas to me! I'm very excited and very apprehensive, like almost everyone else. But woohooo!

I am Dec 10!!