MRP and my story..long

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Hi Group,

I am coming out of lurk mode for the moment. I

noticed that when the protein stuff came up, Vitalady

asked something like " if it was an MRP? " It's been a

super long time since I have read the graduate list

and obviously am not up on my information. I would

appreciate any responses to this...doesn't have to be

fancy or long..whatever you think will answer my

question. Also, as far as the whole protein thing

goes...I do 5 shakes a day, pretty much eat whatever I

want, and have been anywhere from 120-134. (Went on

medication..lovely side effect of weight gain.)

Anyway I am 2 years out...5'4. Now to switch to a

completely different issue that I have never seen

discussed. I am curious about the whole alcohol

issue. I am an alcoholic. When I had the surgery I

was told that my body would not tolerate alcohol in

any form. So being the good alcoholic and having the

good codependent husband, we thought to

ourselves....hmmmmm...no more risk of traumatic events

or treatments....YEAH! After surgery I started having

" sips " of my husbands drinks..because hey the doctors

told me I couldn't tolerate the alcohol so it wouldn't

hurt to have a few sips when we would go out. Sips

eventually became my very own drink...and then became

drinks...and then guess what? I started the long and

disatrous road of alcoholic insanity again. Besides my

drinking wreaking havoc with my marriage...the fact

that I was 120 lbs. and " cute " and heres the

biggie...tons of attention from men. I am sure many

of you have heard the stats (or rumors..not sure

which) concerning divorce after WLS. That issue is

horrible enough on its own and then to add alcohol to

the mix...you start talking about death...of you and

everyone around you. I have been thinking about

posting " part of my story " but just never could think

of things to say or fear of what people would think.

Well it occured to me that nobody knows anything about

me except the justme_51570@.... Basically I am

invisible. BTW when I was 120 I was drinking at least

a 12 pack and smoking almost 2 packs of cigarettes

every day. Go figure...beer is made out of corn and

barley ...and guess what they use to fatten pigs?

Same mixture..pre wls...fat...after wls I swear it

made me get thinner. And through all of this I was

taking 5 protein supps and all of the vitalady regimen

for vitamins. Because I was going to get healthy...ha

ha...Shows you how insidious alcoholism really is.

Anyway enough rambling. Thanks for listening..and if

anyone has an alcohol problem..don't play with

fire..you will get burned, even after WLS. Sorry,

just thought of one more thing to tell you. After an 8

month separation my husband and I are back together

and I have been sober from both alcohol and cigarettes

for almost 6 months.. May not seem like a long time to

you guys, but its the longest period of sobriety I

have had since I was diagnosed 7 years ago. For those

of you familiar with AA philosophies I reached my

bottom and had the ever elusive " spiritual awakening " .

Hope maybe this helps someone to be cautious. Thanks

for letting me share.

With warm regards,

justme : )

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