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Help, re-loosing WLS weight!!!
For those of you who’ve read my previous posts, you might have noticed, its been a long time since I wrote. That’s ok. I’ve had a hell of a journey. And in recent reflection thanks to my husband’s iphone…. I realized… Yuck. I’ve made a mess of things.
I’m very thankful to have had a 2nd successful preganancy. My daughter is healthy and great. She’s very different from my first (who was conceived a year out from WLS), I didn’t pack on weight until the last half of the pregnancy. Yep. I added 40lbs. Holy Cheesecake! 40lbs. I thought. Well it’s pregnancy weight… I’ll loose it, especially since we had job, move, lifestyle changes.
Well. My daughter is now a year old. And I actually weigh more, than I used to. Oh my. More? how is this possible? I’m eating healthy, walking daily, de-stressed, and drink a liter of water a day?! hrm.
So now, I have a toddler who exhausts me. A 3rd move this last month… and I think I’ve added more weight. My thoughts….
- A) I’m not trying hard enough.
- B) I’ve ruined my surgery
- C) the medicines i’m on are interfering with the ability to return to a healthy weight.
So what can I do? Well, this is where I need help. What does one do after they’ve had WLS, and gained weight… anyone else re-lost weight – and understood why they gained it?!
HELP!
Add comment July 2, 2010
I made a mistake, please don’t follow in my footsteps….
I did make one life threatening, long term consequential mistake. I didn’t do the two critical things that one is supposed to do…
- Exercise
- Take Vitamins
This has lead to months and months of tests, treatments, double checking and a general shame on me attitude from my family. I became severly malnurished, severely anemic – Iron Deficient and B12 deficient. It was so bad, I was hospitalized and doctors looked at me like – how are you even walking?
Well, blood transfusion, IV Iron treatments weekly, and a few un-wanted side effects (a blood clot, nerve damage and vision problems) I’m lucky to be alive. For what it’s worth. I am considerably a lucky girl. A lucky Mom… A lucky lucky business woman.
I could have died from the anemia, or the clot, or the stress… and the list could go on and on and on…. ultimately. Because I conciosly didn’t make an effort to take my vitamins. I will live with side effects the rest of my life. And I won’t remember this last Christmas because I was heavily medicated to just get through with the side effects. Holiday memories will never come back…. it’s an awful shame… I did this to myself.
So. In Light of the situation, if you ever are in doubt of what the doctor says you must do… call me…. i’ll be glad to tell you how painful, expensive, stressful, and shameful it is to go through my malnutrition.
I can’t fly, travel, hardly work, do much of anything…. until I get better… and as my mother says – it took a long time to get this way… it’s going to take a long time to heal from everything.
3 comments February 17, 2008
Life After Weight Loss Surgery 