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Every day that goes by you will feel better and get stronger. I am almost a year post op and I can remember the pain but I can't remember what it felt like. Be grateful for the gift (tool) that you have been given and make the most of it.

On ‎8‎/‎23‎/‎2017 at 0:31 PM, Jessh4579 said:

One year ago today I had my RNY bypass done! One year later and I'm down 125lbs and I have lost a total of 90.5 inches!!!!

I feel amazing, my knees don't ache every time I move and my feet aren't so sore from carrying that much weight around!

I don't get winded walking up a flight of stairs anymore and have found that I love jogging and I love yoga and riding a bike is fun again!!

I still struggle with who I see in the mirror so I take a lot of pictures. I take measurements every month or so and I Celebrate with activities instead of food now.

What a difference a year can make!

Congratulations! My one year will be in October. I can not believe how fast the time has gone. I still do not recognize the person looking back at me in the mirror and still find it hard to take the snide comments (like you need to eat a cheeseburger, you have lost enough weight or my all time favorite, "You don't have AIDS do you?"). Keep up the great work and be proud of what you have accomplished.

My wife and I completed our first official 5K walk on Sunday. We completed it in 56 minutes 38 seconds. I could have run it but my wife thinks she cant run so I walked it with her. It was fun and I am sure that we will do it again in the future.

Before I had my RNY I would drink about 20 diet pops a day. I would drink Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, Coke Zero, Pepsi Max and Cola Zero (Kroger brand pop). I am almost a year post op and have not had one. I have never even thought about having one. I was able to get that monkey off my back and I don't want it getting back on there.

We are all adults on this site. If you want to drink pop, drink pop. If you want to eat an entire 7 layer chocolate cake then by all means do so. Everyone's weight loss journey is there own. You decide your own fate. You have the ability to sabotage yourself and you and you alone have the ability to make to correct decisions.

Just my $.02.

Phil

I hate to say it but I am to the point where I just want everyone to leave me alone. I know what I need to do, I know how I want to look and I know (with my surgeons help) what is best for me. I appreciate that people are concerned, curious or whatever, but the comments get real old real quick. I think what really did me in was when one person said, Its not AIDS is it? I thought we all learned in Kindergarten to keep our hands and feet to our selves and if you don't have something nice to say, don't say anything.

They always have something to say. One of the ones that I hear all the time is "eat a cheeseburger why don't you?" I also get tired of people asking me for "diet" help for them.

Thanks for the replies.

1 hour ago, Navigating the Wilderness said:

1 month after surgery:

Boss: I don't understand why we can't just make things work on this project.

Me: I don't understand why you can't get what I'm saying through your fuckin' head.

Boss: I don't need to put up with this from you, and he walked away.

Me, Loud enough for all to hear: Bye Felicia!

Spent 2 months in the doghouse for that one.

You are my hero.

I have never heard of that before. Interesting.

It happens to the best of us. I was written up at work for an outburst of anger that came out of nowhere. It does get better. It took about 3 moths post op before I was able to be my old self.

It is the first year after surgery. It is easier to lose weight during that period.

My surgeon's office has a support group for WLS patients that meets the 4th Tuesday of the month. See if your surgeon's office has one and if you and your mother can attend the meetings. I wish I would have gone before my WLS but I didn't know about it. My first support group was 5 days post op and I haven't missed one in the almost 9 months since my surgery.

Ignorance and fear make people do and say things that they shouldn't. After my dad found out I had the surgery the first thing he said was, "I didn't think you were that big." Now, just last week, he asked me if I was done losing weight. I told him yes. He then said, "Well, you will just put that weight back on again." My dad is almost 82 and thinks that everything he reads on the internet is true.

Good luck with your mom. We are all here to help and support you the best we can.

I guess that I forgot to post after my surgery. Here I am almost 9 months out, 100 pounds down and I have passed my surgeon's weight loss goal. I am doing great and feeling fantastic. I had no pain meds either in or out of the hospital. The only issue that I had is that I ended up in the ER the day after my birthday because I hadn't had a BM in a week. Turns out it was an enlarged prostrate (who'd of thunk it).

Anyways, I can eat what I want (nothing disagrees with me)(meaning what I am supposed to eat), rejoined the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan State Honor Guard and love the new me.

I had a colonoscopy a couple of years ago (I had IBS) before I turned 50. Everything came back fine. My wife just had one last week and I had forgotten how much of the prep liquid and Water you have to drink (and the amount of time you have to drink it in). Has anyone had a colonoscopy after having RYN? Do they cut down on the amount of prep liquid that you have to drink? I have like 6 or 7 years left before I need to have it done again and I was just curious.

Sorry to hear you have strep. On a positive note strep is better to have than an infection (or worse). I hope you kick the strep very fast.

I did not need an MRI (but I am also a pouch, not a sleeve). Needed upper endoscopy, EKG, chest x-ray, ultrasound, psych eval and some blood work.

I finished the program early. I stopped the day of rest in between.

I initially went to the sleep doctor because many years ago when I worked midnights and my wife and daughter's where visiting family in NY I woke up not being able to catch my breath. I couldn't inhale or exhale. I thought I was going to die. I went to the sleep doctor, had the sleep study and in the morning g they told me that I needed to come back that night or else I was going to die. I went back that night and they put me on a CPAP machine. Now fast forward to today, I do everything at the VA hospital and they don't have the capabilities to do the sleep study at my VA hospital so they farmed it out to a local hospital that has the AutoPAP machine. Here it is 9 weeks to the day that I had my sleep study and still no report, phone call, e-mail or a F off and die from the sleep doctor or the VA.

I rejoined the Veterans of Foreign Wars Department of Michigan State Honor Guard last month. Well yesterday (4 July 2017) was our first official event. It was a 2 mile (give or take) parade. When I was on the State Honor Guard 2 years ago I thought I was going to die by the time we reached the end of the parade. Yesterday, I was like huh, when is this parade going to start. I carried the Department flag and had zero issues. What a difference losing 100 pounds makes. Also, 2 years ago the uniform I was issued had become a little too small for me (I couldn't button the pants (thank goodness there is a wide white belt that covered it up) and I had to buy a larger uniform) but now I have the smallest shirt and pants that I can find and I feel so much more comfortable. I love the new me.

UPDATE: Here we are almost 7 weeks since the sleep study and still no report or letter or phone call about the sleep study. Maybe I should just stop using the CPAP machine and when I go to my next appointment (24 August 2017) tell them since I never heard anything I "assumed" that I didn't need it anymore?

I will check it out this weekend.

It is all mind over matter. You don't mind and it don't matter. Be truthful. People always think the worst when they hear psych exam. You will do fine.

On ‎11‎/‎16‎/‎2015 at 9:21 AM, princessjess said:

Rny dawn... I agree completely. I don't understand why some people immediately go back to the old way of eating. I was in support group the other day and a lady wasn't even 3 months out & she was eating garlic bread! Of all things! bread. Lol.

Good luck on your journey!

We had one in group a few months ago who was about 1 1/2 months post op sleeve and was eating M&Ms.

We have a plastic surgeon coming to our next support group meeting. I for one am interested in what he has to say.

I think what I am going to do is get the free consultation in December (along with the price) and set up my flex spending account in January and have it done shortly after that. I hate having bifocals (not to mention hearing aids) and I think it will help with my self esteem.