Hi Everyone,
So happy to have found this great site.
I had my Gastric Bypass on October 19, 2009. I was on the required liquid diet two weeks prior and in the hospital for two nights and three days. Today, beginning of week three post-op, I started on my pureed mush diet-whoooweeee.
I unfortunately got a horrible bug last Sunday after attending a Pet Expo in my post-op state and have been dragging around the house sniffling and coughing and voiceless, LOL!
(I should also add that the week before my surgery I got poison ivy/oak all over-even my belly and breasts, I was so determined to get the surgery, I went into the OR with six huge patches on my hot spots!).
But so far I have gone from 305 to 271.5 pounds as of this morning. 33.5 pounds...
I am getting the occasional intestinal pain every few hours but other than the first night I added skim milk to my liquid diet, it has not been more than fleeting. But I am being very cautious and deliberate. I am "eating" a chicken, beets and cheese mush right now.
A little about me...
I have always been large.
My mother tells me I visited my grandparents for three weeks and returned twenty pounds heavier and unrecognizable, when I was all of three or four.
I was 5'1" and 120 pounds at age 11, and have been on over two dozen major diets starting at age 13, including Diet Center, Nutri-systems, Atkins, Optifast (400 liquid calories per day through a hospital program), Phen-Phen, and I even went to a nutritionist for a year and a half and ate 1200 calories or less a day and exercised 4 hours each day!!!
I used to show horses (and win!), and starve myself to weigh 170 pounds. After my back surgery in 1992, I went above 200 pounds and never got back below.
After working with the nutritionist and losing from 285 to 200 but still finding myself a size 20-22, I decided if I could not keep it up, I would never diet again. After I had gall bladder surgery and gained 8 pounds the first month, I lowered my exercise to an hour and a half a day and gave up eventually on the program.
I have always felt like an athlete in a fat suit and that my outer shell does not reflect my inner personality.
My goal is to get to a "normal" size, be able to shop for "normal" sized clothes for the first time in my life and to be able to ride horses again, maybe even competitively.
I play tennis regularly-nearly daily in the summer-and I muck horse stalls about three hard laborious hours a day and despite my love for the nearly daily cupcake, I should not be the size that I am. So, I am most hopeful that this will be the thing that lets me get my life back on track.
I love that this forum exists as there is so much of the much needed support here and lack of the usual judgement. it is lovely to have a place to let it all hang out, so to speak and to be with people who all speak the same language.
Looking forward to going from a Fat Lady to a Phat Lady with your support and guidance.
Audrey
phatlady is on her way
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