Gastric Bypass Truth

I feel almost as if I’ve just had my gastric bypass. Last night I had shrimp and broccoli from my local Chinese restaurant. I ate slowly – mostly just the shrimp. And it wasn’t near as much as I have been able to eat recently. But my pouch has definitely regained some of it’s post-op [...]

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The 5 Day Pouch Test is working. But it still isn’t easy or fun. Yesterday was day 3. Soft protein like scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, canned tuna or salmon. Pretty much the only thing on that list that I like was the eggs. I had a quiche at my favorite coffee shop (didn’t eat the [...]

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Well, on Day 3 of my 5 Day Pouch Test,  it’s getting easier. Yesterday was still tough. No solid food. By the end of the day I was tired and had a headache. I had drama practice in the evening and I could tell my brain wasn’t really in it. Today I’m up to scrambled [...]

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Wow yesterday was tough. It was Day 1 of my 5 Day Pouch Test. I was crabby and hungry. I ate a LOT of sugar free pudding and cream of chicken soup. I had 2 protein shakes. I think I definitely got my protein quota in for the day. I drank Fuze’s.. not exactly the [...]

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Well, I’m closing in on the third anniversary of my gastric bypass surgery. And I have to say I am very proud of myself. As of this morning, I weighed 145 pounds. Which is what I weighed six months ago. Which is what I want to continue to weigh until I can have the plastic [...]

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You have gastric bypass surgery, for the most part, because you want to lose a whole lot of weight. Sure, there are benefits beyond weight loss. But let’s face it: the number one reason for rearranging your insides is to dump as much fat as possible. So pretty much everyone who’s gone under the knife [...]

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I love my Grandma very much, and she hasn’t seen me since before my gastric bypass surgery. She doesn’t use email, so I haven’t been able to send her the digital pics I’ve taken. But she does have a computer, and today she was going to try and look up this site to see what [...]

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Oh. My. God. I am in total shock. This morning, I had some time to kill before a class I teach two days a week. So I went to Wal Mart, which is right around the corner from the school. My clothes (size 12′s) have gotten loose, so I thought it’d be fun to see [...]

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It finally seems to be happening. Although I hate to say it out loud, because last time I did it went away overnight. But I seem to be losing weight again. Finally! My latest weight was 173. This is after bouncing between 176 and 178 for what seemed like forever. Of course, before that I [...]

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I’m often asked how I made the decision to undergo gastric bypass surgery as opposed to the Lap Band. For me, the fact that the Lap Band is so easily reversible and adjustible was a negative. I know me all to well, and if there was a way out during the difficult times I’d take [...]

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