Christopher

Great Job!!! It is an awesome feeling! Keep up the great work!!!

Unfortunately, we will be tested like this everyday, and every time we open the fridge, the pantry, or go out to eat. The surgeons can fix the stomach, but they cannot fix the brain, and all the triggers that make us crave the foods that got us into the situations that caused us to have gastric bypass surgery. You need to be strong, things will get better, you will learn to find healthier choices to the foods that you crave. Eventually you we be able to introduce some of the things that you like, back into your diet in moderation. It is also great motivation to keep on tract when your weight starts to drop weight like you're melting away. I have now lost 112 lbs in 5 1/2 months and it feels great! Good luck! Sent from my iPhone using RNYTalk

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I have done this several times in the last 5 1/2 months since my surgery, usually the best way to relieve it for me if the Papaya enzyme tablets don't do the job,I usually end up being so nauseated that it is vomited back up and it is almost instant relief. Vomiting is probably not the best option, but it seems like it is the quickest relief to end the suffering that would continue for hours on end. Sent from my iPhone using RNYTalk

I had RNY surgery on July 16th 2012. I have never felt better!!! It is definently a different lifestyle than before, but it is worth it!! I make good choices because the positive feedback is tremendous!!! I have dumped 4 times since surgery, all 4 times I believe they were caused by eating too fast or not chewing the food up enough. I have not tried anything with high surgar or fat in them yet, and I like the fear of dumping if I do have something bad weather I really would dump or not after having them I don't know, but I do know that dumping is no fun at all, so it keeps me on the straight and narrow. I have never been more active in my life, I now enjoy mountain biking and working out, it gives me a new addiction to fitness. As far as supplements, I take 2 multi-vitamins a day, calcium, pepcid ac, b-12, biotin and actigall(gallstone prevention for the first 6 months.) I am on autopilot now, it is alot easier the more time from post op. I still remember how much I liked the bad things to eat, but now realize that they are not worth it!! - somehow I developed a very strong sense of willpower that I never had pre surgery. My surgery was the best thing that I could have done for myself, I would do it again!!! Good Luck on your choice.

I have felt bad after meals when I didn't slow down what I was eating. Are you making sure that you eat a bite and chew chew chew, put utensil down and wait a minute, then repeat? Eating too fast makes me feel horrible. I try to make my meals of 2oz last almost 30 minutes.

I was told no gummies just today, because they have no Iron. Don't take unless you also want to take an Iron supplement.

First make sure you have a nice pill crusher, I got mine at Walgreen's. I usually make all my meds into a fine powder and then mix with vanilla yogurt in a medicine cup. It's still not the greatest but it's tolerable. The yogurt is sweet enough to help cut the bitterness. I take a Flinstones Complete chewable vitamin and a sub-lingual B-12 first by mouth. Then I crush up a Pepcid AC max, my BP pill, Actigall, and biotin and then mix into a medicine cup with as little amount of yogurt as possible, make sure to leave a couple little baby spoonfulls of plain yogurt to help cut the bitterness after you finish off the crushed meds. Hope that helps, been doing this for 5 weeks. Good Luck!!!

That's awesome!!!

Wow, you're looking great!!! It looks like you turned back the clock, and are way younger than the first picture. WTG!!!

I took about three weeks, but I think I could have come back after one week. I felt great, there was little pain from the surgery itself. The only hard part is getting the timing down between all your vitamins and calcium and your meals, drinking your water and getting in your protein shakes in a timely fashion. It felt like that's a full-time job in itself keep up with things. Good Luck!!!

Pre surgery - 287 lbs RNY - 7/16/12 -275 lbs Last week - 253.6 lbs Today - 247.2 lbs Total loss 40 lbs after 4 weeks!!!