Two week check in, and an introduction.

[winklie 518]

Hi.

I have been lurking around here for about a year, afraid to post anything, not wanting to start any arguments, and just in general taking things in. I found this site after reading "The Big Book on The Gastric Bypass" Mr. Brecher sort of shamelessly plugs his website, but hey, I would too I guess. Anyways, I am a divorced 47 year old male, who resides in Nashua, NH. I have been big all my life, that is big, not fat. When I was in the Army (Desert Storm Vet here), when I was 20, I weighed 198 pounds with a 58" chest. In fact my Class A uniform had to be custom made as they do not make them off the rack in that size. I had a (I forget now, but I think) a 4 or 6% body fat which was fine, as the Army wanted my 6'

frame to weigh less than 180 pounds. Anyways, big, turned into fat. I peaked about 2 years ago just shy of the 400 pound marker.

So, rougly a year and a half ago, I was sitting in front of my PC monitor playing some video game and realized I was sitting here waiting to die. I am disabled and collect SSDI. After a lot of soul searching I decided to reinvent myself. And have done just that. I am now a softmore in College with a 4.0 GPA, and a member of 3 National Honor Societies, I had all my teeth replaced, as I suffer from a rare gum disease that caused my teeth to rot from the gums up. I had 26 teeth removed surgically, 21 of which had been root canaled. I got dentures (as the ability to chew food is a requirement for a RNY GB), and on October 5th, 2015 I had RNY GB surgery. I lost a great deal of weight before the surgery, and am losing quite rapidly now. I am not done, I have many more things to do to complete my reinvention. But one thing at a time.

So, background out of the way, today is the two week marker. I have been in increasing pain for several days, I think due to Constipation, or I may have herniated something straining. I don't know and will not know more until Wednesday when I go in for my two week checkup, and NUT visit to move to diet stage 3. My surgery went fine, the surgeon said everything inside looked great, he was actually a bit surprised, he said all my organs looked really good, especially for someone my age. I then (see who get's the quote) turned it up to 11 in the hospital, buy walking 12K steps the day after surgery and 14K the day after that. The surgeon, (who was also military, he is a retired Commander from the Navy) completely understood my marching and the bravado, and macho bullshit. But he wears a fitbit, and I outdid him in steps both days I was in the hospital, we shared a good laugh over that (that and the morphine that just makes everything better lol). I've put my name down to be a regular speaker at the monthly support group, I have no fears about crowds or public speaking, and I figure this is good emotional therapy, with a side bonus of getting to see my Surgeon more often.

So that's pretty much me. I'd like to thank the hundreds of unnamed people who's threads have provided me with so much information over the last year. And I look forward to getting to 'know' some of you. I apologize for any spelling errors in advance, apparently this word processor lacks a spell checker, i'll use Word from now on and cut and paste.

[The Candidate 3,215]

Welcome board, so glad you've gone from lurking to posting. You'll enjoy it that much more! Congrats on all your accomplishment so far, and those yet to come!

[winklie 518]

Thank you.

[Spiceyfrog 269]

Welcome - you will find a wealth of information here! Keep up the great work!