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As you've seen in my last blog the weight was just not coming off. I took drastic measures (as if the surgery wasn't enough) and started the HCG protocol. I LOVE IT!!! I am 6 days in and 10 lbs lighter!!! I think the RNY is actually benefiting me on this plan since I have my pouch and hopefully the malabsorbtion is still taking effect. I figure that after surgery I wasn't eating but 500 calories a day so how is this any different? I eat protein, fruits and veggies and still take all my vitamin supplements. I do feel hungry between meals but hopefully that subsides in a couple days. I only did 1 loading day so I've been told I will feel this way. It's so exciting to see the scale move finally after 5 months! I can already see a difference in my shape and usually that takes a good 20 lbs to be noticeable.

If you have a stubborn 25-40 lbs that you just can't lose, I have your answer and the magic bullet.

Good luck!!
Red

I feel that I can officially say the RNY did not work for me. How often does this happen? How can it NOT work? Surgery was 7/7/11 and since then I have lost 41 lbs which is only 40% of excess weight that I've lost. I follow all the rules, water, protein, vitamins, and exercise. I've tried upping calories, lowering calories, not counting carbs, lowering carbs, adding more exercise, weights and nothing is working. I've weighed between 194-197 since November 26. This isn't a stall...this is maintenance. I've read post after post of people that were at my height/start weight or not and they were all down at least 80 lbs by now so nobody can say everybody is different. I look at profiles of anyone similar to me to see what they are doing but nobody reallys says anything but how much weight they've lost and how this wonderful journey has changed their life. I don't feel that way. My favorite part is when people admit to not eating right, not getting all the protein in, not exercising enough or at all and they are losing weight. Maybe I am doing something wrong...I did see that some people out 6 months were still eating 800-900 calories but I've been at 1200 since November but 500 of those are from protein supplements.

I really don't regret getting the surgery because it does help with eating less and I'm eating a healthier diet. At least I have to answer to something. But why me??? Why isn't is working for me?? What do I do next? I thought I'd be close to my goal weight by now! I just had higher expectations and I've been let down.

         

I'm in week 9 now and doing rather well, no problems to date BUT the scale isn't moving much. I'm only down 27 lbs since surgery. Seems rather slow going for me. I am losing inches but I'm not sure why that's supposed to be better than losing weight. In order to get this surgery they used my BMI, not my measurements. I stepped up my exercise in the last couple of weeks and get all my protein in everyday. My water is pretty good, at least 6-8 glasses a day. I could up that a little I guess. I created a weight loss chart to try to bring it into perspective. Here's what I have:

Date	Weight	Difference	Total lbs lost	Post Op Loss	Percent
18-Mar	273.0
30-Mar	263.0	10.0	10.0
4-Apr	258.0	5.0	15.0
9-Apr	257.0	1.0	16.0
28-Apr	250.0	7.0	23.0
11-May	249.0	1.0	24.0
19-May	248.6	0.4	24.4
28-May	246.0	2.6	27.0
4-Jun	245.0	1.0	28.0
11-Jun	242.4	2.6	30.6
21-Jun	241.9	0.5	31.1
25-Jun	238.4	3.5	34.6
7-Jul	235.0	3.4	38.0
9-Jul	233.0	5.4	43.4	5.4	7%
14-Jul	232.8	0.2	43.6	5.6	7%
23-Jul	229.1	3.7	47.3	9.3	12%
3-Aug	226.8	2.3	49.6	11.6	15%
4-Aug	224.1	2.7	52.3	14.3	19%
7-Aug	223.0	1.1	53.4	15.4	20%
16-Aug	217.5	5.5	58.9	20.9	28%
22-Aug	216.5	1.0	59.9	21.9	29%
27-Aug	214.7	1.8	61.7	23.7	31%
2-Sep	213.0	1.7	63.4	25.4	33%
6-Sep	211.7	1.3	64.7	26.7	35%
10-Sep	211.5	0.2	64.9	26.9	35%

I haven't complained in awhile because I have no reason to!! I'm 5 weeks out and down 17.5 lbs since surgery and 55.5 lbs total!! I'm no longer in race mode but nice and easy marathon mode. I don't weigh myself everyday, maybe every other or so. I feel great and I'm down from a tight 22 to an 18. That feels good. I feel "normal" right now because most of my adult life I've weighed around 220. When I get below 200 lbs, that will be my WOW moment. I haven't weighed under 200 since high school.

Here I am again 25 days post op and I'm not losing any weight. I've been bouncing between 226 and 228 for more than a week now. I've been working on my house all week painting and complete exhausti on has set in. I took today off! The bottoms of my feet hurt so bad! So I continue to be frustrated. when is this "new life" going to begin. I go see my surgeon on 8/10 and I go back to work this Thurs. Just seems weird that I'm only down 7 lbs since surgery. That's my average when I lost weight before surgery so I'm not excited about it. I've meausured too and I've lost an inch around my belly. Not sure if I'm doing anything wrong. I'm on pureed foods and eating 3 times a day plus my protein shakes, popcicles and water. I eat things like instant mashed potatoes (which I just had) pureed vegetable soup, creamy soups, pureed chili, pureed refried black beans with cheese and plain greek yogurt oh and my favorite breakfast is grits with an egg, cheese and bacon bits. Yummy!!! There's my story and I'm sticking to it. Until next time!

So today is day 16 post op and I've had a 5 lb loss since surgery. Yay! It's nice to see movement on the scale. However I discovered that the pain in my neck and back is being caused by the gas from surgery. It's pretty painful. Yesterday was a pretty bad day for me only because I had to stay in bed all day. It began Thursday evening when I started feeling nauseous and the gas pains were whirling around my guts and continued throughout yesterday. I took some miralax because I think I'm constipated too. Good God I thought I was doing pretty good then BAM!!  I may have overdone this last week and then the first day of pureed foods may have had reprocussions so I'm taking it slow. Mashed potatoes, oatmeal...more bland type food. I feel like I can do some walking today so off I go to the shower!!

Have a great day!

13 days post-op and I haven't lost any weight. I'm getting in all my protein and liquids. I start my pureed diet tomorrow and I'm so excited!!! I love my protein shakes and have a few of my favorite staples. Peanut Butter and Chocolate protein mix, SF banana cream pudding mix with fresh bananas and vanilla protein mix. I use vanilla Soy milk with my shakes too.  I could probably live off those two alone if I needed to but I'm looking forward to black beans and cheese with some salsa and dab of greek yogurt. One that everyone has suggested is ricotta cheese, marinara sauce and mozerella cheese heated up. Sounds yummy!! Even pureed chili or vege beef soup sounds good.

The things I read on this site about the "journey" have not come to frution for me yet. I wait not-so-patiently so I can start posting about NSV's and all the wonderful things I'm waiting to enjoy in my "new life" but WHEN??? sigh... til tomorrow!

Here I am the day before surgery, the day I've been waiting for for 5 years. I drank the mag cit yesterday, tasted gross but I'm cleaned out! I've been doing my liquid diet, not too bad either. This morning my surgeon calls to tell me that she fell and hurt  her arm yesterday and since I'm prepped she doesn't want to delay me and asked if the other surgeon can perform the surgery, fine. I did a lil research on him and a couple things came up about his bedside manner and he's arrogant. I think I can deal with that since I'll be knocked out and don't really have to deal with him per say. My surgeon will be in the OR so that makes me feel better.

I've had my surgery date for about 3 weeks and just like my BF he waits until the last minute, literally like an hour ago, to tell his boss that he's taking me to the hospital in the morning for surgery by 7. This a-hole (the boss) doesn't even skip a beat and says the bf has some work to do and needs to be there by 8 or earlier if possible. Ok so I will literally be dropped off on the curb to start this journey ALONE. This shouldn't really surprise me. Then to top that off, the BF was asked to teach a class on Saturday morning in which I should be getting discharged, I just don't know when so get to hang out at the curbside waiting for my ride.

I'm not nervous about tomorrow, not yet anyway. I'm just irritated that the BF wasn't more responsible about making arrangements to be there with me for a little while and the fact that he agreed to teach this class and completely forgot that I was coming home that day.  I don't have anyone else I can depend on for any of this and I'm not sure why I decided to depend on him. I'm so disappointed. Funny though, I could have had my surgery done yesterday and the BF actually played hooky! SOB!!!

I thought 7/7/11 would be a great day for surgery. Now I pray that the surgery goes ok and it's everything around me can go to sh!t.  Ya know!?!?!?  Ridiculous...anyone else share a similar experience?

 I had my pre-op appointment today. My surgeon is wonderful. She explained the surgery and asked some questions, she was very thorough and took her time to be sure everything was in order. She even gave me a hug on the way out. :) After that I proceeded to EKG and she said it looked good then I got my blood drawn and finally down to x-ray for the chest x-ray. That was it! Thursday I start washing with anti-bacterial soap and liquid diet doesn't start until 7/5, 2 days, I can do that!

I'm am so excited I can barely contain myself!!! I had a great therapy session today, it was the 3rd with my new therapist and she is wonderful!!! She's going to sign off so I can FINALLY SUBMIT TO MY INSURANCE!!!!! Now I have to wait to get approved! aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh! This is torture! I was hoping to have my surgery date by now but I'm one step closer and SO EXCITED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!