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Yep 6yrs has gone by sometimes it feels like a life ago. I still dump like crazy and since I have gained all my weight back I forget sometimes I had surgery until I get sick from eating crap. I`m back in the process and have been accepted into St Joe`s program. I`m not rushing this time and I`m going to be 100 percent honest. This is my last hope there are no other options after this I have to be ready to make it work.

Where did the time go? Actually sometimes it feels like it was forever ago. I still struggle with my weight I wish I stil weighed my lowest 189 but I was up to 250 again and by doing atkins I;m currently at 235. I wish it was lower but it's still better then where I was before surgery. Also if I didnt have surgery I'm sure I would be at 350 by now. I'm very happy I had the surgery. If I had to do it again I would have never tested the waters. I would have stayed away from chocolate and pastries. I still dump too so even having the dumping dosen't deter me like I thought it would. My iron is being very difficult right now but I'm working on it with my GP.

Wow almost 7mths have passed since I had surgery. What a difference 7,mths can make. I'm loving my RNY it was the best decision I have ever made. I have lost 85 lbs and I feel terrific. I can eat a fair amount like a whole sandwhich or a sm bag of chips. I'm still dealing with head hunger that's not going anywhere fast :-). But that's ok because I didn't expect perfection aslong as I try my best, and I am. I exercise regularly bike riding, boxfit, eliptical machine and weights. I can tell the weeks that I have been having too many carbs as my weight loss will be really low that week. I have to keep track of my carbs in order to continue losing weight. I'm about 30lbs away from my goal and then I will reevaluate at that time. I currently weigh 211 I haven't weighed this amount since about 11 yrs old that's pretty bad. Life is good

Doing ok, throwing up a lot. Any kind of pureed seems to bring pain and come right back up. Staying to mostly liquids still they bring no pain and stay down fine. Struggling to get my water in everyday, I find it a lot of water that has to be drunk. Got weighed in yesterday down 3.4 for a total of 39pds. Very happy with that.

Go figure got a voicemail yesterday from Dr Klein's/Hagen office in Toronto they have an appointment for me in Feb 2008 for surgery. Then right after I had a message from Dr Kam I forgot about my 5 week followup appt by phone. If I never would have went to Michigan I bet I would never had gotten an appointment with Dr klein yet. I don't regret my decision for a minute it was the right one. Barix is awsome.

Started going to the gym yesterday. I did 25mins on the eliptical and went back this morning and did another 25mins. I can't do weights yet so next week I will start them.

Everything is going ok most of my food is still liquids. I have cream of wheat everyday for one of my meals.
Went out for supper to swiss chalet and had mashed potatoes with a side order of shredded cheese. The waitress thought something was wrong with them because I ate so little. My husband loved he bill being so cheap when it came :)

Having an issue with constipation and getting backed up.

Feeling amazing clothes are hanging off me thighs don't rub together so much anymore, looking forward to a big wow moment.

Lost 3.5 this week for a total of 36lbs

Oh bad experience with Peanut butter today. I did the treadmill for 30mins and then thought I would make a protein drink. Usually I have milk and carnation sugar free breakfast. Well today I thought I would be adventurous and add some P.B. Oh my gosh I got so nausea, sweats and shaking it last for about an hour. It was horrible. I will never touch PB again.

Preatty much eating the samething everyday. Cream of wheat and more cream of wheat. Ate out twice this weekend once at Flying Saucer and once at Swiss Chalet, had mashed pototates at both places. My husband loves the bill when it comes lol.

I'm glad I listened to everyone when they mentioned this surgery is on your stomach not your head. Somedays are hard knowing all the stuff I can't have.

I'm still on liquids for another 3 days then I get to move to pureed. According to my scale at home it hasn't moved all week. I will tell for sure when I go to Weight watchers tonight if it's just my scale being wonky.

I'm getting in 3-4 bottles of water a day so most days I hit my min. I'm not having any problems getting in my protein requirements 68grms a day.

Something I do everyday is exercise by walking. I walk anywhere from 60-100 mins a day.

The last 3 days have been hard, I'm sick of protein drinks no matter what you mix in them they still taste the same. I also had a pain in the lower part of my stomach and no energy. Today is much better yah.

This has been a long journey. I started it 3 yrs ago. My family Dr faxed to dr hagen's office a referral for an appointment. It took a year to get a date for that first appointment. At the first appointment it was basically 5mins and I got weighed sat down in the chair Dr hagen showed me 2 pce paper one with RNY and one with lap band. It showed the difference of them and Dr Hagen told me to take them and make a decision. I would then need a follow up appointment before surgery. I was thinking great suregery probably within a yr or so. Boy was I wrong.

My next appointment was scheduled in October 2006 in the mean time I had to make an appointment with a dietician, internist. and psycologist. Well these appointments were just as hard to get, because I couldn't get them all complete I had to reschedule the Oct 2006 appointment it got rescheduled for the closest date. Feburary 2007............I went expecting a surgery date wrong thing to do. It was a 2sec appt which Dr Hagen advised i was approved for surgery and would joiin the waiting list which was approx 9mths. Ok so I put any thoughts of driving all the way to Michigan to get it done because I could wait 9mths.

So Aug came and I decided to call and check on my wait. The secetary was not helpful except to say it was over a yr longer I would need to wait. That totally pissed me off and I called Barix the same day. I had my consult the next week with Dr Kam. I also sent in my OHIP papers and got approval within 3 weeks.

I was advised I need a sleep apnea test and an EKG. The sleep apena test would have been a couple of months to wait for in Niagara except I advised them of the situation and they put me on a cancellation list. I ended up getting the test with in 2 weeks. The results took 2 weeks after that. So all mu ducks in a row I called Barix to let them know and they called back the next day with a surgery date of Oct 18th. 1 day before my 5th wedding anniversary. Dr Kam also called and wanted to know if I had any questions and to remind me that in Nov he would be leaving if I wanted another surgent I said no way.