stlsweetie
Newbie
- Surgery
- Bypass
- Date
- 12/17/15
- Start Weight
- 440 lbs
- Goal Weight
- 200 lbs
- Currently
- 290 lbs
- Progress
- 63%
Everyone! I had gastric bypass in 2015. I had some severe complications that put me into a coma and inpatient as well as outpatient physical therapy. I was out on disability until April of 2016. Somehow I got through all of that and made my surgery an incredible success as I regained my ability to walk and use my right arm which I lost during my coma. I also lost 220 lb. I kept it off for quite some time. In 2020-covid year - I went up to about 250. Definitely not okay with it, but I also understood my life was so much more sedentary as I was working from home and I always knew that weight gain was a possibility. During this time, my mom was also battling stage 4 colon cancer and Hodgkin's lymphoma which would later metastasize in her uterus, lungs, bones, and finally her brain before she passed away in '22. Through IVF, I became pregnant with my daughter in June of 23 and gave birth in February of 24. 24 days before I gave birth to my daughter, my dad died. Needless to say I've had a roller coaster the last decade.
I'm now at a point where I'm at about 290 and incredibly unhappy because I know what I used to look like and I know how I used to feel. Things are much more difficult to navigate given the nature of my job which is now much more sedentary and the fact of that I am a single mom to the most gorgeous 19-month-old baby girl.
Oh, I also had a revision in late 2023, but would get pregnant mere months later and that threw everything out of whack-The hormone shots both pre IVF and post IVF didn't help.
So now I'm at a place where I am trying to get back to where I was - physical activity, portion control, and tracking my macros. I've also been diagnosed with iron deficient anemia. The lack of energy I experience because of that, because it's not currently under control and I'm under a doctor's care, exacerbates and intensifies the issues I'm dealing with.
Where I'm left at right now is wanting to get back to a healthy routine and environment. I want to get back down to 2:20 or 2:30. I want to set a positive example for my daughter with healthy eating habits and a healthy physical activity level. I know this is something I'm not going to be able to do alone as my major support systems are currently not around and in addition to that, I don't live in the state where I got my surgery originally. If you got this far, thank you so much for sticking with it.
I'm now at a point where I'm at about 290 and incredibly unhappy because I know what I used to look like and I know how I used to feel. Things are much more difficult to navigate given the nature of my job which is now much more sedentary and the fact of that I am a single mom to the most gorgeous 19-month-old baby girl.
Oh, I also had a revision in late 2023, but would get pregnant mere months later and that threw everything out of whack-The hormone shots both pre IVF and post IVF didn't help.
So now I'm at a place where I am trying to get back to where I was - physical activity, portion control, and tracking my macros. I've also been diagnosed with iron deficient anemia. The lack of energy I experience because of that, because it's not currently under control and I'm under a doctor's care, exacerbates and intensifies the issues I'm dealing with.
Where I'm left at right now is wanting to get back to a healthy routine and environment. I want to get back down to 2:20 or 2:30. I want to set a positive example for my daughter with healthy eating habits and a healthy physical activity level. I know this is something I'm not going to be able to do alone as my major support systems are currently not around and in addition to that, I don't live in the state where I got my surgery originally. If you got this far, thank you so much for sticking with it.
