My Bariatric Life

You're very welcome! Please let me know if they are tasty. I have not tried them, but I am now inspired to develop a Paleo recipe myself!

It never ceases to amaze me how I can taste the sugar that is laden into foods (UNNECESSARILY) now that I eat clean. It really makes me mad trying to find dried fruit that has no added sugar for cripes sake!!! I don't eat peanuts because I follow Paleo but the kind that you can grind yourself in the store rocks because you can taste the peanuts rather than the sugar -- it simply is not necessary.

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@@Aribay1 good luck to you. I am learning a lot about loving myself.

@@JustWatchMe you are doing great. It is hard to go through WLS and a divorce, so you must be a very strong person. Don't let the emotional eating win! You can do this. A whole new beautiful life awaits you.

This string has been very eye opening. I never realized so many of us WLS patients were of normal weight at one time. I was normal weight until second grade. I know that I had a lot of anxiety about going into the second grade, the kind that would cause me to wake up crying in huge middle of the night sobbing my eyes out to my mother. So I assume that I are in response to that. And I just kept ballooning from there. In 9th grade I was 185 pounds and went to a diet pill doctor and joined a gym and swam and biked. I got down to 120 pounds but I probably was anorexic at some point, eating 100 calories a day. When my appetite came back I leveled off around 145 pounds and stayed at that weight years. I got into a car accident when I was 19 and could not exercise. Then I became depressed. And I was newly married. I began to gain weight. Then I got pregnant at 21 yrs old and put on another 60 pounds - most of which did not come off. I struggled with depression and obesity for years. Then when I landed in the hospital with a diagnosis of diabetes and hypertension I knew that I had to do something to save my life. Several months later I had gastric bypass. I was at 285 pounds by then. I lost 100 pounds and mostly kept it off. But I was still overweight. Finally when I had plastic surgery I lost my excess weight, a combination of the skin removal and diet and exercise. Now I have a normal BMI. It took a lot of work to straighten myself up. It was not as simple as having a couple of surgeries. I know that I am preaching to the chior here! I had to do the hard work to address the multi facets that contributed to my obesity; it took a long time to do that.

@@Miss Mac I never lost the amount of weight I had wanted/expected from my WLS. I finally had plastic surgery and that did it for me. My body contouring plastic surgeon removed about 12 pounds and I dieted and exercised to lose the rest of the 50 pounds. Now I finally have the body that I wanted and which WLS could not give me.

@@Bandista I had WLS 11-yrs ago and I still have to watch out for emotional eating once in a while. Good luck on your journey!

@@emcbee I actually was at my thinnest when I was partying as a late teen / very early twenties. There is no way that I could do it today. Now my only vice is caffeine.

@@remerton I never would have been able to lose the weight without the surgery. Good luck to you!

@@mrsbailey921 an article on webmd says tonsil removwl can can leqd to weight gain http://www.webmd.com/children/news/20110201/tonsil-removal-may-lead-weight-gain

Brands vary and I do not take anything that is specifically for a bariatric patient. Here is my list: supplements - daily unless otherwise noted Cod liver oil 1000 mg Zinc 50 mg Multivitamin Niacinamide B3 500 mg NAC 600 mg Iron 65 mg 4x week 130 mg 3x week B1 100 mg B12 ALA 600 mg CLA GABA Calcium Something that balances cortisol levels Vit C 1000 mg E400 D3 2000 iu twice daily Magnesium citrate 400 mg twice a day Biotin 5000 mcg Nattokinese 2000 fu

@@bellabill I have heard of three other marriages with children and then the husband discovered he was gay and they got divorced. So it may not be as uncommon as people might assume.

@@dgross congratulations on your upcoming surgery! so many women here saying that pregnancy ruined their bodies, or at least started them down the slippery slope of weight gain.

@@NewLife'sGr8 binge eating disorder

@@Keeper I remember the pamphlet from Lean Line when I was in the 7th grade. It read that first place a diet starts is in your head. For me, overcoming the bulimia was really very difficult. What truly helped my BED was the generic version of wellbutrin. i did some research on it and asked my doctor to prescribe that for me rather than the Prozac that I was on, which caused weight gain and did not reduce BED or bulimia. I do recall having the urge to eat and vomit after my gastric bypass, and contacting my bariatric surgeon and getting a reply back from his office, "I eat 6 grapes at night." My reaction was WTF!!!! I am talking about eating pizza and making myself vomit and you think the solution is simply to eat 6 grapes?!?!?! This is why we have to be our own best advocates when it comes to our health.

@@laurenella82 good luck my dear. it is not an easy journey but it is worth it. this is your life and you only get to live it once, not twice or more. do it! we all want to be losers!

@@SuzeMuze you look like you are doing very well on your weight loss journey. keep up the good work. it gets much harder after the first 6-mos, at least that is how it was for me. I loved the honeymoon period when I had no appetite!

@@Kindle congrats on gaining control of your health and your life. It is so surprising to me reading all of these stories about people who were thin and vital (like I was) and then became morbidly obese (like I did). I had no idea it was such a common path.

@@Miss Mac a nutritionist told me that I had metabolic syndrome and that I could restrict calories as much as I wanted and exercise as much as possible and really would not loose weight. Unless, that is, I balanced my Protein to carbs at every meal 2:1. It did cause me to lose weight. Today I follow a Paleo diet, the only difference in my Paleo diet is that I don't eat red meat -- cause it grosses me out. I did the Whole 30 program last Spring as a way to transition to Paleo. It worked really well for me. I wrote about it, if you are interested http://www.healthcentral.com/obesity/c/276918/169702/whole30-diet

@@Keeper back in 2003 when I had my WLS there was no psych screening. And I did not volunteer the info on my application for the surgery that I had any "psychological issues" or eating disorders. I think the counseling is an important part of the programs today, although I have mixed feelings on the psych screener.

@@Jersrose43 @bobbyswife @JALUVIC @@cdenney123 @@SuperDave marriage and pregnancy was the beginning of my decline as far as my weight and physical activity. I think I did some matching of my husband eating (he was 6'2" and could eat anything and stay thin). And I gained 60 pounds with pregnancy.

@@LumpySpacePrincess I went through BED, too, as well as bulimia, and anorexia, when I was younger (before my WLS). Did you have any challenges with the BED after your WLS?

@@FairySleeve you are doing really well on your journey. Keep up the good work!

@@scstxrn good luck to you. I never could have lost the weight without the surgery. My only regret was not having it sooner.