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Today is January 12th 2009. Exactly 1 year and 3 days post surgery . This year has been a difficult year for me. My lap band surgery was not successful. I have actually gained wieght since the surgery and my doctor left town. It has taken me six months to find a doctor and mentally get myself back into the grove of things. For the last month I have been working out at least 3 days a week and I am happy to report that I am down 9 pounds. I am setting a challenge goal toworkout 3 days a week consistently and then weigh again on February 25th as my birthday present to myself.

I thought that this was interesting article in the New Yorker in how prematurity could effect long term health. I think that this starving gene could have something to do with obesity.



Stephen S. Hall, Medical Dispatch, "Small and Thin," The New Yorker, November 19, 2007, p. 52

Keywords

Barker Hypothesis;

Barker, David J. P.;

Epidemiology, Epidemiologists;

Babies;

Birth Weight;

Medicine;

Heart Disease

ANNALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY about David J.P. Barker’s theory that adult disease is linked to pre-natal and early post-natal life. In the early nineteen-eighties, a group of British epidemiologists compiled an atlas of the common causes of death in various parts of England and Wales. The map charting heart disease was difficult to interpret. The poorer areas of England indicated higher-than-average death rates, and the prosperous areas indicated below-average death rates. David J.P. Barker, one of the authors of the “Atlas of Mortality from Selected Diseases in England and Wales, 1968-1978,” used this data to question whether the cause of this disease was adult behaviors or something from early childhood. Barker and a statistician named Clive Osmond discovered that the areas with the highest death rates from heart disease had the highest rates of infant mortality about fifty years earlier. Barker questioned whether vulnerability to heart disease was rooted in adulthood, in childhood—or did it go all the way back to life in the womb? And, was the trajectory toward disease perhaps set by how healthy the mother had been even before her child-bearing years? In 1986, when Barker’s basic claim that heart disease was “related to nutrition during prenatal and early postnatal life” —now known as the Barker hypothesis—was first published in The Lancet, it was regarded as heretical. Barker thought birth weight could tie an individual’s prenatal development with his health as an adult. At the beginning of the twentieth century, Britain began to keep records of infant health. It took two years for Barker and his colleagues to find the adults whose birth records they now possessed. Men who had weighed 5.5 pounds or less at birth had the highest rates of death from coronary heart disease. This paper appeared in The Lancet in 1989. Many doctors disliked the idea, in part because it undermined a decades-long public-health message that linked heart disease to adult behavior. Mentions several scientists who tried to prove the theory wrong, but ended up convinced that it was accurate. In 1997, a Finnish doctor named Johan Eriksson and his colleague Tom Forsen further proved the Barker hypothesis. A biologist named Tom Fleming was among the earliest to test the Barker hypothesis in rats. Barker makes sure to say that no child is doomed by low birth weight; rather, such knowledge should allow doctors to identify heightened vulnerability in certain children, for whom preventative measures can make a great deal of difference. The Barker hypothesis has, gradually, acquired its own air of orthodoxy.

 I had my surgery in January and have not been doing so well I have gained about 5 lbs. I am a little discouraged. I have not been able to have a fill because my Dr. is overbooked and constantly on vacation. I am scheduled to have my first fill on the 27th. I am SO looking forward to it. I started back going to my personal trainer today and I went to yoga yesterday and I have been committing to working out at least 3-5 times a week and I know that it will jumpstart my weight loss. I also went back on my liquid diet yesterday to give me that extra boost. So I am trying and I am doing to begin to plan out my meals after the 27th so that I can prepare more.  Since my last post I celebrated my 28th birthday and I hoped to have at least lost 15 more pounds but I didnt. So here we go again, my class reunion is in August and my goal is to lose 50 pounds by then. I know I can do it. 

THE TONGUE CAN BE YOUR WORST ENEMY!
 

Your words, your dreams, and your thoughts have power to create conditions in your life.
What you speak about, you can bring about.

If you keep saying you can't stand your job, you might lose your job.
If you keep saying you can't stand your body, your body can become sick.
If you keep saying you can't stand your car, your car could be stolen or just stop operating.
If you keep saying you're broke, guess what? You'll always be broke.
If you keep saying you can't trust a man or trust a woman, you will always find someone in your life to hurt and betray you.
If you keep saying you can't find a job, you will remain unemployed.
If you keep saying you can't find someone to love you or believe in you, your very thought will attract more experiences to confirm your beliefs.
If you keep talking about a divorce or break up in a relationship, then you might end up with it.

Turn your thoughts and conversations around to be more positive and power packed with faith, hope, love and action.
Don't be afraid to believe that you can have what you want and deserve.

Watch your Thoughts, they become words.
Watch your Words, they become actions.
Watch your Actions, they become habits.
Watch your Habits, they become character.
Watch your Character, for it becomes your Destiny.

The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settle for.
Thought I would share this with you.

In the search for Me, I discovered Truth.
In the search for Truth, I discovered Love.
In the search for Love, I discovered GOD.
And in God, I have found Everything.

Be Blessed

Watch how your circumstances and situations begin to change when you change the way you speak.
Pass this on to as many people; and back to me......as you can, so they can change thei r  lives, too.

"Life is like melted butter; once things cool down, it can be reshaped!"
 

I forgot to tell you how I know. When I like clothes I by them in all colors. So I have the same pants in a 22 and 20. I put the 22 on this morning and they were to big I then put the 20 on this morning and like Goldilocks they were Just right.  LOL

ME!!!! I know that this may not be a momentous milestone for most but at my peak I was a size 28 and they were tight. I wore a size 26 to an awards banquet Sunday and my pants were to big. (If you know me then you know my clothes ALWAYS fit and look nice) I wasn't even upset because in my spirit I was receiving another award. I want to lose between 5 and 10 more pounds before my birthday on the 25th. Here is a picture of me and my girlfriend Melody at the ceremony.  Dont we look cute!!! 

I know this may be the one that you want to skip but if you are interested in Lap band it may be my most thoughtful to date. Last night I had the worse trapped gas in my LIFE. I was shaking and in so much pain. This is a servere side effect of the surgery and needs to be talked about more. I would suggest that you purchase some PhaZyme it works WONDERS!!!! Please note that this is not something that would have made me change my mind or regret doing it but it does hurt and the quicker you can take some medicine the shorter it last. 

PhaZyme & Maalox should be staples in your medicine cabinet. 

Love From on Bandster to Another, 

Yesteday I put on a pair of pants that I could not fit. I could not fit them when I purchased them. But I got them on a business trip and i really liked them and said I will get back in them. SO GUESS WHAT. I got in them yesterday I am down 2 sizes since surgery and yesterday. The pants fit and I wore them all day although they were a little tight. I wore a loose sweater.

Last night I was laying in the bed and thought I had a bump on my neck. I thought is was another pimple. But it was my collar bone. I laughed and laughed and almost cried. Although I am not losing any pounds I think I am losing inches and I am good. I also went to dinner with a friend yesterday and I had fish green beans and yams. I said I shouldnt have the yams and she said that I was thinking that but I didnt want to say anything. I told her that it was ok to say something and that it didnt bother me. I know I probably shouldnt have had the yams but I also know what I am eating and how well I have been doing. I have not had a piece of candy in over 2 months and for me that is amazing so some yams are ok in my book. We all need our sweet tooth rubbed every now and then. LOL. 

I am thinking about walking in a 5K in the morning.

4 weeks out and still no weight loss. I am not mad I am actually adjusting and I went to my support group meeting. I meet a lady who told me she gained back 8 lbs after her surgery. I have gained and lost and gained the same 3 lbs over the last few weeks. I am really happy. My sister said that I can no longer hold a cup on my butt so I am a little saddened by that but as long as I keep a handful I think I will be ok. LOL.  

I wrote my friends a note about voting and stated that we must be the change that we want to see. My favorite quote is that the opposite of love is not hate it is indifference. We can no longer be indifferent suffering, homelessness, joblessness, and pain. We must be vocal and active. 

This is a great website if you are looking for hope and possibility this may be the time to say YES WE CAN!!!
 www.yeswecansong.com

Also please pray that I can begin eating just the 1 cup of food at a sitting.