Gastric Bypass Surgery or Extreme Diet???
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Spygirl

Friday, January 03, 2003 - 10:17 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
LOL Bookie -- I'm working on that darned application next week! :) Thanks for your post. It is life changing, but remember that life changing doesn't have to be a negative thing

Merlin

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 12:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Congratulations Spygirl, in more than just one way.

Tntitanfan

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 06:23 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hooray for you, Spy! I know what a life-altering experience the surgery was for my niece - see above - and our whole family has been very supportive of her decision.

Squaredsc

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 06:38 am EditMoveDeleteIP
(((Spygirl))) i wasn't sure exactly what roseanne did but i knew she did something. (((Curious)))

Kstme

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 07:36 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Ms. Spy GIRL! APPLAUSE and HUGS!!!! ((((()))))! You are such an incredible person and ANYONE out there lucky enough to meet you, knows that! You have unbelievable courage and I think you did what was "right" for YOU! It makes sense now, as to how you were losing so much weight SO fast. Have to tell you, I even said to Juju, I was concerned about you becoming anorexic!!!!!! Thank God, it was the surgery! You look mar v e l o u s! Simply m a H v e l o u s!

Webkitty

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 07:43 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, I left you a message in your folder, I am proud of you too! {{Spygirl}}

Wargod

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 11:11 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Love ya, Spy.

Twinkie

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 11:37 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, I think you are such a cutie patootie and one of the sweetest people I "know"!!!

<runs off with marm's pics of the gang>

Ginger1218

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 11:48 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, seems we have a lot in common. If you have read my post you will see. We also have pretty much the same feeling regarding it. There are people who have negative remarks about everything. But, if it is something they don't know about they need to just be quiet. And you are right, most people who are negative about this don't have an extra pound on their body. You know what - obesity is the most discriminated upon group than any other. It would be easier for a minority, Old, female handicapped person to get a job than it would be for an obese person. Obese people are considered lazy, and sickly. It is such a lot of cr*p. At my heaviest I could run rings around most people I worked with.

I applaud you, there is nothing to be ashamed of. And the people in your life that were negative to you, you need to delete them from your life. Because those people want you to fail.
I learned that too.

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:06 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spygirl, it is true, Kstme did tell me she was worried about you. I assured her that you had assured me you were under close medical supervision. I just didn't know how close.

Oh! I also told her you are really smart. Hope you're not mad.

Lancecrossfire

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:07 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I think what works for one person may not work for another. It depends on the person and what the circumsstances are. I think it's great when someone can find the right fit--be it eating less and exercising, using a structured plan created by someone else, or medical procedures.

It is unfortuante that any of you have to hear anything negative about the choices you research and choose to go with. Weight loss, and more inportantly maitaining it, is a huge battle for a lot of people--at best it's not easy to do for many. To have the additional crap of negativity from thsoe who profess to care about you just adds to what a person has to deal with.

I have great respect for anyone who sets out to find the best path and head down that path. All of them have potential pifalls as we go along--and it's wonderful to see successes by others.

Twiggyish

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 03:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Spy, I'm glad you revealed this to us. ((Spy)) I totally agree with Lance above, too.

Kstme

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 04:03 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
<hitting juju with my jujugoatdoll! i knew Spy was "smart" but i was "still" worried>

Juju2bigdog

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 07:57 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ouch! Now you know that's not what I meant.

<makes a mental note to switch to foam stuffing in the Jujugoatdolls>

Kstme

Saturday, January 04, 2003 - 08:36 pm EditMoveDeleteIP

Curious1

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 07:19 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Well hello again everyone!

I saw my doctor today and I am really frustrated. I can't get him to see that something is definately wrong with me, he thinks I'm an obese depressed person (which I am but it's more than that!)

SHOCKER to me was that in just 4 weeks I gained 14 pounds!!! The bad part was about 5 weeks ago (day after thanksgiving) my husband and I bought a treadmill and I've been walking on it at least 4 times a week. Also I made a concious effort NOT to over-eat this holiday season. Avoid sweets as much as possible.

Anyway, the doctor said that my blood draw that I had done on 1/2/03 showed normal TSH levels so he doesn't think it's my thyroid (although I got him to admit that he has only checked my TSH and never my t4 or t3 levels.) He said that my blood pressure was high which suprised him because it has never been high in the last 2 years that I've been seeing him. I couldn't get him to see that the 14 pounds in one month was a reason to do additional tests. I demanded that he send me to an endocronoligist which he agreed to do, but said it will be the end of Feb before I'll get in!! (By then I'm worried I'll gain another 20 pounds!)

The thing that frustrated me the most was that I told him that I just knew that something was wrong and that I really wanted other tests done to rule out some things and he said and I quote "there are literally thousands of dollars that can be spent doing blood tests and I don't think that complaints of weight gain and lethargic-ness warrant them, those are classic signs of depression!"

I need to get a new DR but the problem is with my insurance, there are only a limited number of dr's to see and 4 of them work in his same office!

Thanks for listening, tommorrow I'm calling the endocronoligist to see if she can get me in any earlier but I've heard that she is booked solid dealing with thyroid surgeries to remove over-active glands. Sorry just had to vent.

Curious1

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 07:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Just thought I should add that I did get the dr to admit that gained 110 pounds in under 4 years was not normal!!! I never had a weight problem in my life until all this started. Usually people who weigh this much have weight problems starting early in life and I gratefully did not. But that just tells me that something is going on with my body in the last 3-4 years.

Jmm

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 07:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Curious, I'm so sorry you had such a bad experience with your doctor. Please try to find another as soon as you can, there is absolutely no reason to put up with that type of treatment.

((((HUGS))))

Max

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 08:28 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Hang in there, Curious. Keep pushing the doctor. Keep learning all you can on your own and be your own best advocate. Only YOU can know how you feel and if you feel there's something wrong, then there IS. You're not the first patient to have to keep pushing to get doctors to DO SOMETHING and I'm sure you won't be the last. It makes me furious when it happens and it happens all too often.

(((((Curious)))))

Squaredsc

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 08:47 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
curious, again im so sorry about what you are going through. da*n those insurance companies.

Sia

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 09:24 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
{{{{Curious1}}}} I can really identify with your plight. I do hope you can find a health care professional who will LISTEN and who will TAKE ACTION. I recently found a nurse practicioner who works in my regular M.D.'s office (a woman), and she's become my best advocate and best "physician" so far. Keep looking until you find a doctor or other health care provider who will help you to discover what the problem is. You're right; something must be wrong, or you wouldn't have experienced the changes you've been going through. Good luck. You'll be in my thoughts and prayers!

Mygetaway

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 10:09 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
This is totally off the wall, but do you ever notice that food seems to be missing? Maybe something happened 4 years ago that started making you be one of those night eaters. Do you know what I'm talking about? People who get up during the night and eat, sometimes massive amounts of food, and never even know that they've done it in the morning. However, you'd think you would have figured it out by now if that were the case. Like I said, it's a way out there theory, but it does happen to people.

Good luck with the new DR. I hope they figure this thing out.

Curious1

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 10:31 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
That's a thought mygetaway but it's not the case with me. I would have noticed by now like you said because I'm the only cook and grocery shopper in the house!

It's common to develop a thyroid problem (which is the gland that regulates your metabolism) after childbirth and i think this is what happened although I lost all the pregnancy weight in about 3 months time. About a year after the baby it started piling on. It has for sure gotten worse in the last year though. I think I've noticed it more anyway because I've been trying really hard not to gain weight.

It's frustrating because I know part of the reason I gained so much weight was because of depression and just not caring what happened to my body but for about a year now I have been alot less depressed and i have been trying to watch the weight and all I do is gain.

Zachsmom

Monday, January 06, 2003 - 10:37 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
If you are cutting back on your intake and watching what you eat..you SHOULD notice loss not gain!

((((((((((((HUG)))))))))

Change doctors or write to the medical group..

Ginger1218

Tuesday, January 07, 2003 - 06:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Curious, when you see the endocrinologist make sure you ask him/her to test you for the antibodies for Hashimoto's Disease which is a thyroid disease that cannot be detected by ordinary thyroid blood checks. It is a special test. It can be dormant for years and then suddenly flare up. But an endocrinologist will know about this.

Tntitanfan

Wednesday, January 08, 2003 - 07:55 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
The people who are committed to following the program's limitations - and changing their lifestyles forever - are those who are most likely to benefit. I am glad that my niece was able to make and fulfill that committment as it has truly changed her life -

committment and commitment look equally wrong, so take your pick!