.: RNY Top Related Articles
1). Getting to Know Your New Reflection
It’s a fact: Overweight or Obese people DO NOT LIKE mirrors or ANYTHING that reflects back to them as to how others probably see them physically. Many heavy people go as far as removing all full-length mirrors throughout their home in the attempt to avoid seeing their reflection and finding more reasons for self-loathing. They think that removing the full reflection will ease some of the harsh self-criticism.
Article tags: mirror, image, body image, self-esteem, reflection, bariatric, morbid obesity, rny, weight loss, surgery, diet, lose weight
2). Being Trapped in the BAGGIES!
Remember when you weighed over 300 pounds and you literally felt “stuffed” into your clothes? Zippered pants and tailored shirts just weren’t your “style”, or closer to the truth, you couldn’t find any zippered pants that fit you well or shirts that didn’t peep open of pop buttons! Elastic became your closest buddy! Do you recall how self-conscience.
Article tags: baggy, baggies, clothing, clothes, baggy clothes, losing weight, rapid weight loss, weight loss surgery, weight loss, rny, roux en y, gastric bypass, bariatric, bariatric surgery, mirror, clothes not fitting, big clothes, losers, loser
3). Your Skin is Begging for Attention
You’ve had the bariatric weight-loss surgery and you are looking fabulous as you are feeling healthier, able to live a more active lifestyle, and wear more fashionable clothing. But you’re noticing that your skin seems to be so dry! If you’ve had a problem with acne or oily skin before, then you are elated that your skin has cleared up and is less oily.
Article tags: skin care, dry skin, lotion, weight loss, bariatric, rny, roux-en-y, weight loss surgery, morbid obesity, lose weight, wls
4). Avoid the "Take-Home-Box" Overload
After you’ve had the RNY surgery, there is one thing you immediately begin to notice.. and that’s what I call the “Take-Home Box Overload”. This is what happens inside your refrigerator as a result of you brining home all of those take-home boxes from restaurants because you cannot finish the meal. Even prior to surgery, you couldn’t often finish the meal when some restaurants serve such large portions.
Article tags: leftover food, bariatric, gastric bypass, weight loss surgery, wls, rny, roux-en-y, lose weight, morbid obesity
5). Get Into the Closet after Weight Loss Surgery
After you’ve had a gastric bypass surgery, you’ll lose a lot of weight in a very short period of time. This is a double-edged sword in the sense that you rejoice over the fact that you are losing weight so rapidly, yet in addition, you face challenges of wearing clothing that properly fits your ever-shrinking body. There’s a way you can manage this bitter/sweet dilemma.
Article tags: closet, size, sizes, clothing, clothes, bariatric, weight loss, downsizing, organize, gastric bypass, roux en y, rny, losing weight, organize closet, organize closets
6). Waiting for the “Mood Bus” to Arrive
How many times have your heard “I’m not in the mood”… or “When I’m in the mood, I’ll do it,”?
We talk about our “moods” as if they are things that come along like buses or trains and we hop on and ride them until it’s time to get off when we reach a destination, wherever that is and wherever it ends up.
Pull the Cord – DING – time to get off!
When it relates to the gastric bypass bariatric weight-loss patient, the “mood” is a very funny thing to measure since we find ourselves on incredible mood swings at times.
Article tags: mood, bus, hormones, fat cells, rny, roux-en-y, gastric bypass, bariatric, weight loss surgery, lose weight
7). Thinking as the Thin Think
When you lose a massive amount of weight after undergoing the Gastric Bypass Weight-Loss Surgery, it’s difficult to change our mindsets and how we incorporate our new lifestyle habits. As we slim down, it is important that we begin to “think as a thin person” or rather (let’s all practice this tongue-twister together) “thinking as the thin think.”
Why should we do this?
Because if we fail to do this, we can run the risk of easily falling into those unhealthy and bad habits that strolled us down the paths of obesity in the first place.
Article tags: thinking thin, being thin, thin lifestyle, habits, gastric bypass surgery, rny, roux-en-y, weight loss surgery, bariatric
8). It Starts with Bed-Dancing
This “Bed-Dancing” concept often gets a few chuckles… but I want you to stay with me on this one as I explain exactly what it is (and isn’t) and how you can incorporate this in your exercise routine today.
I’ll begin by expressing how essential Bed-Dancing was in my life right after I had the RNY gastric bypass bariatric weight-loss surgery: VERY ESSENTIAL.
Article tags: morbid obesity, gastric bypass, bed, dancing, lose weight, weight loss surgery, wls, rny, roux-en-y
9). The Inward vs. the Outward Influences of Weight Loss
Why does losing weight have to be so stressful? Why is it so hard?
There are many factors. It would be presumptuous to say that losing weight was easy. It certainly isn’t! A person who has to lose then pounds finds it just a hard and frustrating as the person who has to lose over a hundred pounds. Although the number of pounds appear as a vast difference between the ten-pound loser and the hundred-pound loser, the truth is the same frustrations are experienced.
Article tags: influence, influences, inward, outward, voices, weight loss, bariatric surgery, weight loss surgery, rny, roux en y, positive, negative, scales, food, physical body, fatigue, conquer, weight loss goals