6 month follow up today

[Travelher 915]

Pretty happy with my progress. Was hoping for 90 down today by today, but hit 88.2. so almost there. Revising my goal down now. Hit overweight last month!

People le who haven't seen me in a year aren't recognizing me. So here is that...

Edited April 4, 2017 by Travelher

[char3672 292]

You look awesome! Did you have the sleeve or bypass? I am having the sleeve done in June, I hope to do as well as you!

[amartyn1 74]

Congrats you look awesome !! Keep up the great work !!

[Travelher 915]

52 minutes ago, char3672 said:

You look awesome! Did you have the sleeve or bypass? I am having the sleeve done in June, I hope to do as well as you!

Thanks. I had rny revision from lapband.

[ssbthodge 92]

Oh my gosh you look AMAZING!! Such an inspiration!!

[Irish_Eyes 22]

How inspiring! I had my LB removed in October. Insurance recently approved a revision to RNY. My surgery is set for May 22. Any advice?

[klouisa64 36]

You look great and very happy, too! Congratulations!!

[Travelher 915]

On 2017-04-05 at 10:26 AM, Irish_Eyes said:

How inspiring! I had my LB removed in October. Insurance recently approved a revision to RNY. My surgery is set for May 22. Any advice?

Well my advice is to take what you learned the first time around and use it. I feel like my recovery from rny was easier than the band because I knew what to expect. I knew the gas was the worst thing about post op...so by evening of my surgery I was up walking, walking walking I was in the clinic for two days but was asking to be released after one because I was feeling better! At home I walked. I knew warm Water goes in when cold does not work. I knew to take my Prevacid. I knew to get my Fluid and Protein in first and I have been rigidly sticking to plan. And not trying to uneccsarily restrict calories.

Rny gives a metabolic reset so I am not going to destroy this new baby metabolism with crash diets like I did the last one. I have observed that many of the vets who lost weight on really restrictive calories guess what..they also have to maintain on really restrictive calories. I know other vets who focused on healthy foods like protein lots of vegetables, healthy fruits, complex carbs if you have room etc.,, they are able to maintain on 1400-1700 a day. That's who's plan I'm following. Now that I have had a malabsorbtive surgery I really have had a mindset change to eating what my body needs, as opposed to eating for entertainment. I don't eat processed food. My filter always is "does this offer me the most nutrition?"

I tried to get my calories to 800 as soon as possible (by 2 months). Then to 900 (by 3 months). At six months I'm now between 1050-1100. Still losing...slightly slower but who cares...I'm in this for the long term not the short term.. this one I want to be forever.

This is what worked for me. It isn't the only way, of course. But it changed my life.

Sorry for the long winded answer.

[Irish_Eyes 22]

Thank you for the great tips and advice. I'm 4 days post op now. I also had the revision (2 surgeries). While I expected the gas to be bad, luckily it never really was. Maybe that was due to my pre op loss of almost 20#. I will keep your advise going forward and hopefully I will have the same amount of success you have.

[Sparklez 27]

You're an inspiration! Surgery 6/6 and my before pic resembles urs. Gives me hope that in 6 months I'll be looking so much better. You look fabulous!

[marlowedriscoll@gmail.com 15]

On 5/26/2017 at 5:21 AM, Sparklez said:

You're an inspiration! Surgery 6/6 and my before pic resembles urs. Gives me hope that in 6 months I'll be looking so much better. You look fabulous!

Wow....You have encouraged me. I AM having my lapband removed and converting to RnY on June 15th, 2017. I was successful with my band but had to open it due to gastric issues and other things..