Lookin4answerspostop11+years

Post op 11 (+) years post op (2009) gastric bypass roux en y.  I have had two children post op, 11 months apart, just over two years and three years post op.  I have had pretty good success with weight loss. At my highest I weighed 453 pounds,

I lost had lost 100 pre-op years before but couldn't loose weight at all anymore no matter what I tried, my health was deteriorating.

Post op I lost 193 more from August 2009 to June 2011.  I had lost my most weight in 2011 and was down pre and post op 293 pounds.

I gave birth to my first child and had a healthy baby at the end of May in 2012, and gave birth again to my second and last child to a healthy baby very first of May 2013.  My weight fluctuated a lot.  I had some major stressors occurring, I was married in 2011 and was told years ago Id probably never have kids due to my health issues and obesity.  (at this point I was 38 and early menopause was a.family thing) lol

They were very wrong lol.  I had two healthy babies in less than one year roughly 3 years post op. It was a challenging time.  I was married post op to a life long acquaintance who became more and was married for my first time in 2011, then gave birth in 2012 and 2013.  My dad had a stroke three months after my second child was born and passed away in late 2013.  I separated from my husband 5 months later with two children under two.  

My biggest fears while pregnant was around whether or not my developing babies were getting the nourishment they needed with what my body was absorbing and with the supplements post surgery.  So honestly, it was ummm Im going to eat everything I can (do not recommend AT ALL, not so fun if I ate too much, or had a little too much carbs or fat!!!! but think of the old mentality of "IM eating for two ... on steroids with Im eating for two using a shot glass to eat at a time... so eating around the clock became a habit once the food went through (I still if Im paying attention and in the present moment feel the food and drink exit my pouch - not sure if others experience this? Or its another just another thing that makes me special  .... 

I live In Ontario and was covered to go to a hospital in Rochester NY for surgery because of my health deterioration and at that point severe back log and health complications.  My brother has also had the surgery and he is post op 7 years (approximately) and we have very different outcomes some better some not.  Unique just like us  .  He has been physically healthier and has regained all his weight.  I have kept most of my weight off yet am struggling with complex heath issues.  Whether or not this is connected to our differences as people and circumstances, or if it has something to do with surgery and/or post op changes...  Im not sure and Im not sure that can in all cases be even answered.  

Post operatively, even years later the benefits and blessings that Im so grateful that are part of my life has been absolutely astounding AND the health complications and complication have also been scary and dumbfounding.  So both are possible even at the same time, but alas such is life for everybody.

right now post up Feb 2021 I weigh 187 pounds and my lowest weight and target weight is 170 because that's weight I feel the most healthy and confident at and (Im big boned and always been muscular) people aren't on my case about being too thin ... (That part Never Gets Old LOL)... actually it does when they start asking if I have now developed the opposite (but of often the same or similar general origins in my experience). eating disorder of anorexia (at 170 pounds - because no one weight is ideal or healthy for everyone... we are all incredibly and wonderfully unique with a spectrum of healthy weight ranges that are as individual as each of us are). Going below 170 when I dipped below did not create in me a feeling of health, energy, and confidence.  So each of us have a healthy weight that's different.  Dversity is awesome in weight as well as long as we are healthy and confident.

I hope this message finds you well, confident, excited, healthy, vibrant, living your best life and going for the moon.  

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