Answering quetions from chat

Apr 11, 2010

I was in chat today, and spoke with someone having RNY in a few days who was getting nervous. This persons concerns were over loose skin, and overeating after surgery. We were not able to chat long, so I decided to write a message. Please do understand I don't normally post something from a private message, but there is no personal info in this. I felt what I worte was good enough to post on my blog. Below is the message:

As for your concern over loose skin, how much you will have depends on how much over weight you are. For example a person who is 200 or 300 pounds over weight is going to have more loose skin than someone who like yourself only has 100 pounds to loose. I know 100 pounds seams like alot to need to loose, but actually we are considered light weights in this surgery. So when you hear others talking about all thier loose skin, you have to consider how much over weight they were to begin with. So far I dont really have a problem with hanging skin, although I feel I will have an apron when I get down to goal.

As for over eating after surgery, you will be surprised at how hard that is to do. To over eat, you have to eat until you hurt alot, or til you throw up. If you continue to do this you WILL gain your weight back. When you start to eat again after surgery, your brian and pouch starts to tell you when it is time to stop eating. For me when I am full, I feel a tightness in my pouch, which for me is right under my left rib (doc says it should be center of my ribs). If I eat a few more times, I start to look and feel sort of depressed. That is my mind telling me I have to stop. My face looks like something is wrong. My friends will ask if i am ok. My partner became concerned before surgery that he didn't know what being full feels like, but trust me, he knows what it feels like now.

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