A New Me

Feb 16, 2009

Hello All-
I have been a member for some time now, but have never really blogged. I had my gastric bypass on December 31, 2008. Since this date I have lost 42 pounds. I have had some problems with my surgery, the one thing I didn't know is that the rapid weight loss would cause kidney stones. So a month out of surgery I had a 4 mm kidney stone. WHOO HOO. Then the next week everything I started to eat came back up. I called my dr who said that there was a stomach virus going around and that things should get better. So later that week it was still as bad so I called back and they ran some tests and found out that my gall bladder was only working at 7%. So last thursday they took it out, I am somewhat sore but I am so afraid to eat. I don't want to throw up any more. I have been trying to eat little by little and I stop eating when my belly hurts. If anyone has any advice about that please feel free to let me know.

o, when I started my journey with my dr I was at 267 pounds, before surgery I had gone down to 258 pounds. Its been almost 8 weeks since my surgery and I have gone down to 216 pounds. I am extremely surprised that I have lost that much weight in that short of time. I have been told that my ideal weight will be somewhere around 137 pounds. That leaves me needing to lose 79 more pounds. I know that the rest is going to be harder to lose than the first 42 pounds. It just blows my mind that within a year I could lose 121 pounds. HOLY COW!

The only issue that I am starting to notice is that I don't really look like myself any more. I know that its to be expected but oh my god I didn't think that it would be that different that soon. Hmmm...any opinions or thoughts are more than welcome! 

3 Comments