Post by Admin-MaryK on Dec 29, 2017 13:29:50 GMT -5
Hi all,
I had a gastric bypass about 10 years ago. I lost the initial 70% of my weight goal at the time with few complications (I was lucky). However consequently, I can no longer absorb iron, and have had to have regular iron product infusions which cost a lot for my insurance (United Healthcare). I was told by another surgeon that if I do not opt for some kind of update for my surgery, that I will never lose the weight unless I can get myself to exist on like 800 calories a day. That surgeon was belligerent to me because I did not want the surgical update...I could have it because I had another condition warranting surgery (a hiatal hernia), but I didn't want it. Deep down I know my addiction to sugar is the problem, combined with my emotional eating...nothing short of a lobotomy was going to stop me eating and help me be a normal weight.
I like to caution people opting for surgical solutions. If you haven't done the work on your head and emotions...the reasons you want to overeat, the surgery is only going to do so much for so long. Eventually your stomach pouch stretches, and your blood sugars rise again, and you are sort of back to square one.
I have been in therapy a few years working on it, have learned for me it is a spiritual issue, that I need to let a higher power like God help me through...even though I'm not the most religious person. It is just out of my hands from the "why" standpoint. I know what to do...how to do it, and have the tools...it is just believing I'm worth it...
Thanks for reading, and feel free to comment or ask me questions.
Thanks,
Mary K.
I had a gastric bypass about 10 years ago. I lost the initial 70% of my weight goal at the time with few complications (I was lucky). However consequently, I can no longer absorb iron, and have had to have regular iron product infusions which cost a lot for my insurance (United Healthcare). I was told by another surgeon that if I do not opt for some kind of update for my surgery, that I will never lose the weight unless I can get myself to exist on like 800 calories a day. That surgeon was belligerent to me because I did not want the surgical update...I could have it because I had another condition warranting surgery (a hiatal hernia), but I didn't want it. Deep down I know my addiction to sugar is the problem, combined with my emotional eating...nothing short of a lobotomy was going to stop me eating and help me be a normal weight.
I like to caution people opting for surgical solutions. If you haven't done the work on your head and emotions...the reasons you want to overeat, the surgery is only going to do so much for so long. Eventually your stomach pouch stretches, and your blood sugars rise again, and you are sort of back to square one.
I have been in therapy a few years working on it, have learned for me it is a spiritual issue, that I need to let a higher power like God help me through...even though I'm not the most religious person. It is just out of my hands from the "why" standpoint. I know what to do...how to do it, and have the tools...it is just believing I'm worth it...
Thanks for reading, and feel free to comment or ask me questions.
Thanks,
Mary K.