My 4 year bandiversary date just passed!!!

Aug 07, 2011

It was July 18th. So it has been 4 years since I was banded. WOW wee.  I want to give a little back and tell you about how I feel about my decision to have weight loss surgery.

Its still one of the best decisions I ever made. i was still able to eat most things that i shouldnt from year 2 thru 4. Now a days I am now having difficulty eating fried chicken. I know I shouldnt have been eating it but i did. At first it was fine to eat as long as it was fresh and I ate slow. Now even when I attempt to make fried chicken myself knowing its fresh i still cant keep it down so i figure whats the point. I was probably a naughty patient because I still kind of ate what I wanted to just in super small quanities. But now things simply dont feel right in my stomach anymore! I have started switching at few meals a week to straight clean eating. Like fresh fish from the fish market and fresh vegetables. I have made slight physical activity changes. I consistently park farther away when going to the mall or grocery store. I took ballet class for a few months last year.... i also too zumba for a few months this year. I cant get into the exercise kick. maybe one day i will.   i have run into a few people who have had their bands for a longer time and a shorter time than mine who have not have had as good of time with the band that I have. I like to say that it was because it was because i made better decisions. but it was probably a little bit of that and a little bit of luck. lastly, i think that my expectations for this surgery were realistic based on the lifestyle that i lead.

dr spivak asked me when i went in for my consultation how i would feel if i only lost about 50 lbs. I said fine. My inital reason for weight loss surgery was not to be thin without any type of work involved. It was to gain control of something that i never had control of. now when i go through emotional turmoil i only gain maybe 10 or 15 lbs instead of 50 or 60. my band was the tool that helped me take control of my weight. its not an end all to my issues.

things i would have wanted to do differently if i had the willpower....
exercise throughout my inital weight losee and diet throughout and meet with a nutrionist.  Had I done these things i would probably have less of a need for plastics.

also something that i think that we should all consider is clean eating. i am concerned about the health of america. if you know anything about me you would know that i am anything but a health freak or tree hugger. i simply think that we need to wake up to all of the health issues that we are having and really take a look at the food we are putting into our bodies. i think our government and corporations are benefitting from how unhealthy we are in certain ways. i also think its bullshit that it costs more money to eat healthy than it does to eat crap. since i have started using fresh herbs and recipes i can really feel the different in the way i feel after eating and in general.  just think about it. im not all food guruish. im just throwing it out there! =)

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