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Dating after surgery
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Started this discussion. Last reply by Kitty Hall Oct. 27, 2008.
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- What's your current situation as far as weight loss surgery?
- I've had it done
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- I had gastric bypass on October 4th, 2006. I am a single mom. I have a 9 year old daughter and she is the apple of my eye. Now that I have lost a total of 130 lbs I can do so much more with her. My older sister just had the surgery done on February 19, 2008. It is awesome that she was influenced by my results to have this done. I am so proud of her!!! It will be great to be able to do things together.
I am just getting into the dating scene again. Boy, that is a tough one. Is any one else out there just beginning to date. How do you handle telling your potential partner about the surgery? Some people look at you like you grew a third eye when you talk about the surgery!!LOL
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Well, you just have to know that you are going to plateau at various stages. I have found that it is directly related to how much exercise you are getting, and how much snacking you are doing! It does get more tempting to snack the further out from surgery you are --- AND, I still do "bad" things like drink with my meals, which just washes the food thru faster and therefore I am hungry sooner, and therefore I catch myself wanting to snack between meals. So I TRY to keep fruit and low-caloric stuff around in case I just HAVE TO have something.
There is a couple of sites on the internet---don't have the links or I would post it --- about "restarting the pouch process" --- in other words, making your pouch work again like it did at first... You might google it and see what you can find. Basically, it talks about going back on a 10 day to 2 week liquid protein "diet" of sorts --- like you were right after surgery and still on soft foods. That is supposed to jumpstart it again and get you losing weight...haven't done it myself, but it makes sense that if you are just doing soft stuff and liquid protein, ANYONE would lose weight--- surgery or not!
Anyway-- just make sure you are eating right, and getting some exercise and don't weigh yourself all the time...It will eventually come off. I have been doing so much snow shoveling this winter, that I have dropped about 10 lbs and didn't even realize it until my jeans got loose!
Good luck,
Roz
I can totally feel you on feeling weird and telling them about the surgery. In the spirit of transparency, I take the opposite approach. I generally tell people pretty quickly that I went through it...it makes the rest of the situations easier to deal with and inevitably you start talking about it and sharing your experience. It's kinda cool actually.
On the dating question, which is a GREAT question, post it to a forum or something and let's see what everyone else is experiencing!
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