I am so excited I will be a year out tomorrow!!!
Tomorrow will be a year since I had surgery! A year ago my life changed for the healthier. Last year I was 282 pounds. Today I stand at 140. That is over 140+ pounds I have lost. I did have a hard journey. I have suffered for months at a time with kidney stones, a blood clot in my lung, I still suffer from nausea every day, I get gastric pains every now and then, I have had a hernia that needed surgery, had to have my gallbladder removed and more. I had to have over 7 hospital stays. 4 surgeries. I still do miss eating ice cream and candy and regular soda and cookies, that will never change but its hard to resist a temptation but I know it will cause me to get sick and thats good enough for me to leave it alone. I have lost my hair and my nails stopped growing and did have some drops into my vitamin levels but it seems okay now. I am very proud of where I am now!
on 4/7/14 11:55 am
Congratulations! You have come such a long way!! Thank you for being honest about your experience and for keeping it real. Many of us need to be reminded of the things that can happen after surgery, including the cravings that still will haunt us afterwards. Good job resisting those goodies! I have not yet had my surgery, but what works for me is to remind myself that I have had those things, I know what they taste like, it will only give me a moment of happiness, and the guilt will definitely not be worth it. After the surgery, we risk pain and sickness with those things.
Best wishes with your continued success and cheers to better health in the future!
Congratulations on your surgiversary and 142 lb. weight loss! I pray that the next year is easier on your health.
“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”― Marc Hack
Ht:5'4 SW:268 CW:127.2 GW:125 RNY 06/09 Stomach/colon revision 11/13
You've had a rough year, and you still managed to accomplish that weight loss? You are obviously Superwoman! 
Congrats, and thank you for the wonderful inspiration!
Surgery: RNY on 12/18/2013 with Jay M. Snow, MD "Don't mistake my kindness for weakness." - Robert Herjavec, quoting Al Capone
