kathybudzicki

Hello, My name is Kathy and a week ago I had the gastric sleeve bypass.  It took approximately 8 months of Doctors/psych/dietician appointments before I was cleared for the surgery. I was 274 pounds.  Approximately 5 months ago, I cut out all sugary/bakery/ice cream from my diet.  I'm not one of those people who can stop at one or two bites.  I also cut out any kind of pop.  I seriously decreased my fried food intake.  Although, I will say the hardest thing I had to do was to switch to decaf coffee.  I was not a happy camper about it at all and didn't manage to completely get off the caffeine coffee until about  three weeks prior to my surgery.  My portions were still very large but I was eating a lot healthier.  The week before my surgery, I allowed myself to eat higher fat proteins; basically because I knew I would only be able to take a few bites of them after my surgery. 
  Before the surgery I managed to lose 39 pounds,  Today, I weight 228; losing  7 more pounds since the surgery last week.  I didn't come out of the surgery to well. I'm thinking part of the reason was the 
anesthesia, The pain and nausea was horrible, sorry, it just was.  If I'm being honest, I was sorry I  had it done in those few hours because I just couldn't believe I let myself get to the point where I had to have elective major surgery.  Although, I was truly happy to see my roommate doing so well, it worried me that I was not.  I have learned everyone is different and recovers different.  I'm still feeling week, and get exhausted easily but I do feel so much better than a week ago.  My follow up appointment is in two days and I'm so hoping to get the tube taken out of my stomach. 
  Well, that's my story.  I would love to meet some people, especially that have had the surgery more recently so we can share stories.   Thank you.