One Year Anniversary - long
Hello My Friends,
Well its been a year since my surgery. Life is good. I can’t say that the past
year has been hard at all. My weight lose is what I call normal. Since the very
beginning I have lost 10 lbs. each month, well, until recently. In April I lost
5, in May I gained 8, in June I lost 8 and so far in July I have gained 3. Which
all in all gives me a grand total of 94 lbs. lost in a year. I know, most have
lost twice that amount in the first year. I started out at 303 lbs and am 5′1″.
I should have lost more…at least by everyone else’s statistics but, I am happy
with what I have done. I try to remember to get on the scale once a
month…sometimes I forget and then I have to ask my husband how much I weighed
the last month. I faithfully take my vitamins but I am awful when it comes to
protein. I give myself a B12 shot each month and never forget that. My body
seems normal to me. Never constipation…never diarhia. I never vomit. I drink
some water but live on ice tea. I can drink some soda but it has to be low
carbonation. I don’t drink alcohol. I can eat sugar. I do not dump. The really
great things that have happened to me since my surgery are the fact that I
graduated from college with a degree in Culinary Arts. I am the chef and owner
of my own restaurant with a small catering business on the side. I have gotten
married to a sweet man. The changes in ME are many, some that just happened
without my knowing them. I work in a restaurant all day every day. I bake the
best home made pies that this city has every seen and a killer cookie that
people call to make sure I have every day but……. I do NOT think about food
except in a purely profession way. I do not taste everything I make. As a matter
of fact after a 10 hour day I have to sit down and think HARD if I have eaten at
all. A year ago I would have had a sandwich, a bowl of soup and 3 or 4 desserts
by my side the entire day. If I make something new or something I am not sure of
I “taste” a spoonful and then leave it alone. I give pies away that have been in
the bakery case too long. I have been in business for 7 months and I have to ask
my employees how things taste because I have never had most of the items on my
menu. THIS is how my surgery works. THIS is normal eating. After one year I can
eat 1/2 of a sandwich and maybe a cup of soup if I have them an hour apart. I
can eat 1/4 of a rueben sandwich. I love fruit and eat too much of it. What I am
most pleased with is the fact that I CAN work a 10 or 12 hour day. My knees
don’t hurt, my feet don’t hurt (much), I am not huffing and puffing as I run
from the kitchen to the dining room. I feel GOOD. I am happy. I have not lost
the huge amounts of weight that others have but I don’t compare myself to
others. I am sorry but my exercise comes from my long work days. I am 51 years
old and although I can keep up with the youngsters in my restaurant all day long
I just can’t work out at the gym afterwards. I work 7 days a week. I live in
Yuma, AZ and in case you don’t know Hell gets it’s heat from Yuma. At 5am it is
85 degrees here. There is no walking in Yuma in the summer. I will join
something in the fall if I have not jump started my weight loss. I want to get
down to at least 140 and then have some plastic surgery. I am sorry that this is
so long but after a year I have alot to share. I am pleased with the surgery. I
don’t dwell on the past and I don’t worry about the future. What will be, will
be. I take care of today and I try to be good to myself. I will end this on a
rather funny note. The other morning I woke up and before I got out of bed I
stretched and as I did I turned from my back to my side bringing my arm up over
my head. As I did this I felt a pretty decent “smack” right in the face. I hit
my self in the face with my “bat wing”. I guess I will be saving up some money
for a little reconstructive surgery. I am glad I didn’t reach over to hug my
husband, I could have given him a black eye. Thanks for listening.
Sheranne
Yuma, AZ
RNY July 16, 2001
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