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Gastric Bypass and Bulimia…21 days post op
I have spent most of my life having eating disorders. I have been anorexic not eating anything, I have been a food addict, eating everything in sight and I have been the picky eater only eating lean stuff and veggies, or the dessert only diet…yeah that was fun. Even with all of that swirling in my head, I have never been bulimic…Until now. It is not my choice to be, it is my new stomach. It seems like anything I eat thats rather heavy or remotely thick seems to get stuck and well..it is very unpleasant. If I eat anything out of the normal, I get to be bulimic. I go to the bathroom, lock the door, turn on the faucet, flip the toilet lid, grab my “reach” flosser, shove it down my throat and well, I get to experience my food twice. Yum!. It has happened twice now…once with noodles that I guess weren’t soft enough and once with soup. Plain thin, runny soup. Not too sure what happened there. Oh well…live and learn. No more noodles for me. I am going to try chicken once more tonight and see how that goes down. I just need to chew chew chew and make small bites. Like a child. I have regressed from infancy and I guess you could call me a toddler now. I’m all grow’d up! lol. all in all, even with some of the bad stuff I do not regret this surgery. I can’t wait to see what new things my body can do! I only have to lose 0.4lbs and I will have lost my first TWENTY! eek! lol. So I’m in the clear to begin running now, and as soon as my last scar heals I can go to water fit! I can’t wait!
Something else I have been struggling with is some feelings of aloneness. I went from being at home with my family all around me, to over here back at my other home with nobody around me all day. It’s a bit overwhelming. I have nobody to walk with, nobody to talk to all day or do things with, nobody to exercise with…it’s all me all alone all day. I need to make a few changes I think before I go crazy.
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Hi there,
Ive been reading your posts and thats awesome how you’re doing with the weight loss.. good for you =) .. i am getting the lap band done in about a month probably, kind of nervous about it.. what do you struggle with the most? or is it too soon to tell? how has your recovery been?
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Hey! Thanks for your support!
. congrats about the lap band that is awesome! Well I find I struggle with eating in general. I am sticking to the rules of the pouch and not over eating, but I’m finding that I have a lot of head hunger where I’m thinking that I am hungry but I am really not. When I have that head hunger I find the best thing for me to do is to take myself away from food. I grab a water and go for a walk, or go do laundry or focus on organizing something in my house that needs it. I find if I remove myself from the temptation to snack that I do very well!! Just remember that any regrets you have after surgery is normal! I have had plenty of them but once I see the scale actually going down for once, it becomes all worth it! Recovery has been very smooth. I was sleeping in my own bed 9 days after surgery (laying flat) and having no problems keeping most things down. I had 2 incidences where I ate soup too quick and tried noodles that weren’t cooked good enough and I threw both of them up! not pleasant lol. Just do everything your surgeon says to the T and you will be fine!:)
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Thanks for the help… I dont have my surgery booked yet, but its not that long of a wait because its a private health care clinic and I have to pay for the surgery, so i can get in as early as 3 weeks I think… I still have a lot running through my head and things to think about, but im sure this is what i need to do to turn my life around, I am just nervous about the “head hunger” that you said because ive tried diets in the past but that head hunger always finds a way to take over control.. but i guess in this case my stomach probably wont even be able to hold what my head is telling me i want… im sure i will crave some things for a while, i just hope it goes away after time and i adjust to my “new life”… i went for my consultation yesterday and they gave me all the information about what i can eat/when week by week while recovering from the surgery.
I think lap band is less invasive than gastric bypass because they said it is just a day surgery and most people go home the same day of the surgery and take about a week off work (depending on the job) -
Kerri, I had food stuck twice, today being the worst of both. I was in hell and if I had the ability, I would have made myself throw up. I threw up once and felt immediate relief but the agony came back about half an hour later when I took a small sip of water and lasted another two hours to pass….this time I couldn’t throw up. God it was aweful. Like you, need to slow down and chew, chew, chew. I was really hungry when I ate some chicken breast and musn’t have chewed that well and ate too fast.
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