LisaM

I, on the other hand, won't pull any punches.

Without your supplements, your body will not absorb enough vitamins from your food, as well as a number of other nutrients, including iron. Your hands and feet will start to become numb, and eventually you won't have any feeling in them at all... If you don't get help by this time, some of the nerve damage may be irreversible.

You will also suffer brain damage, as your brain needs the essential minerals and vitamins that your body can no longer get from food.

Your bones will become thinner and thinner from lack of calcium, as when your brain and heart can't get the calcium they need to operate from what you eat (and they can't) they will start leaching it from your bones to make up the difference. Eventually, you'll be able to walk across a room and break an ankle just from the force of walking on it.

You won't care, because you won't be walking, because you'll be in a bed somewhere, brain dead, drooling on your pillow.

Oh, and the prilosec keeps your stomach from overproducing acid, causing an ulcer, which for us can be not just painful, but life-threatening.

Take your supplements and medications. They're important.

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Lisa M

Lap RNY - 9/26/05
surgery/lowest/goal
Weight: 303/137/150
BMI: 56/25.1/27.4
Now in maintenance stage, with desired weight range: 150-153 pounds
Current weight: 139 Updated 10/21/08

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