Life is Good! In Search of...Exercise

[JudyGM]

Hi Everyone! I'm Judy from Northern Virginia -- near Washington, DC.

What a great decision I made to have Band surgery on 9/23/09. Since then, I've lost nearly 20 lbs. How great it is to fit into clothes I haven't worn in years. I feel so lucky to be on the road to healthier eating and living.

Sometimes the excitement is so unexpected. For example, my ankles don't swell like before...so I can wear shoes without my feet hurting. Who would have thought???

So many people think I'm so brave to have the surgery. Why do you suppose??? It seems perfectly natural to have surgery when another part of your body is not working properly. Why not your stomach??? Some, I guess, are afraid to be cut. But, they will follow some crazy diet in a heartbeat that will just make them more sick in the end.

Well...I'm having a blast with my new life. I understand there is so much more to do. Exercise seems to be the tough thing. Does anyone have suggestions? Have you used a DVD that is great? Joining a gym just means spending more time away from home which is NOT a good thing.

Looking forward to chatting with everyone!

[MsJacquiiC]

Hi Judy and welcome to The Journey! Congrats on your surgery and your success thus far. Feel free to edit your avatar and update your profile to include your current info.

Originally Posted by JudyGM So many people think I'm so brave to have the surgery. Why do you suppose??? It seems perfectly natural to have surgery when another part of your body is not working properly. Why not your stomach??? Some, I guess, are afraid to be cut. But, they will follow some crazy diet in a heartbeat that will just make them more sick in the end.

You are so right. I've never thought about WLS from this perspective before. I just know for me - 438 pounds is just too much weight for ANYbody to carry. So - it was an easy decision to go for the roux-en-y gastric bypass. Yo-yo dieting was doing absolutely nothing for me - so yeah - didn't want to be cut necessarily - but didn't want to be slowly approaching 500 pounds of misery either LOL

At anyrate - glad to have you here. I hope you enjoy the forum. Again = welcome and happy posting

Jacquii.

Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass A type of gastric bypass procedure which combines restrictive and malabsorption techniques - meaning, it reduces the amount of food a patient can comfortably eat (restriction), and also reduces the amount of calories that can be digested in the small intestine (malabsorption). This combination of bariatric methods leads to greater weight loss and the roux-en-y procedure is seen as one of the best ways to treat clinically severe obesity. See WLS Videos for animated surgery technique.

Weight Cycling Yo-yo dieting, also known as weight cycling, is a repeated loss and gain of body weight due to excessive dieting. The term "yo-yo dieting" was coined by Kelly D. Brownell, Ph.D., at Yale University, in reference to the cyclical up-down motion of a yo-yo. In this process, the dieter is initially successful in the pursuit of weight loss but is unsuccessful in maintaining the loss long-term and begins to gain the weight back. The dieter then seeks to lose the regained weight, and the cycle begins again.