Encouragement

I sent an email to my friend Trudy, the one I cat sit for all the time.  She had gastric bypass a few months ago and I wanted to see what her progress and experience had been.  Her email was very encouraging and has just made me more determined than ever to have gastric bypass.

I feel great. I eat pretty normally now, even sweets, and have no problems. I certainly don't eat as much but I think it's a lot. I keep thinking

that I'm going to gain weight but I haven't. I was in a size 2 X but I am in a size 10 petite now (sometimes a 12 for jeans). I have bought all my clothes at 2nd hand shops as there are a lot of smaller sizes. It's funny, I know that I lost weight but I don't feel any "different". I would have stayed heavy if I felt good but I got to the point of hurting all the time and not doing much. Now my one knee hurts only occasionally and I can do so much. I am even taking yoga and getting stronger. At my age, I don't really care as much how I look, but I am so glad that I feel so well.

You will be so surprised at first at how little you eat but after a year, you will be "normal". I do try to get my protein in and I take my vitamins most of the time. I eat meat, eggs, Greek yogurt and sometimes the protein powder to get my protein. It is so much easier to eat healthily as the cravings don't rule me like they used to. And I do not "diet" - I eat what I want; I just try to eat as healthily as I can.

I am so glad that you are going to do this too.

Trudy

PS: I was 200 plus pounds and now I am down to 151. Just for the fun of it, I would like to get into the 140s and I probably will as I am still losing (it seems) a pound or so every month. We'll see - no biggee. And Stephanie (my PA) says that one thing bigger people have is strong muscles that weigh more as we had to have them to hold our weight so some of my weight is muscles.