RE: a new call for info re your gb stats, from ceep

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1. Are you male or female? Female

2. Starting Weight? 339

3. Weight now? 161

4. Surgery type and date? Proximal RNY 9/26/00, revision to Distal RNY

9/26/02

5. Amount bypassed if you know? Proximal was 150cm, Distal doesn't measure

that way

6. Length of common channel if you know? Proximal doesn't measure that way,

Distal is 60 "

7. Pros of your surgery? Living!!! Playing with my kids, looking normal,

being able to shop in any store the list could go on and on and on ...

8. Cons of your surgery? Have to be rigid about supplementation or risk

sever health problems

9. greatest joy That my children will never remember their Mom as the fat

woman that I was

10. greatest challenge Anemia

11. Your age at time of surgery? 31

12. Any advice to others? (about 5 lines if you can manage) Research!

Know what you're getting into beforehand so you're not surprised later.

Look at the negatives as well as the positives and don't think of this as a

magic cure for MO.

13. Your surgery doc? if you care to say Original surgery - Dr.

O'Malley, Rochester, NY; Revision - Dr. Ki Oh, Federal Way, WA

14. Your regimen of food and exercise? (Please summarize in a short

paragraph; aprx calories per day estimate/and minutes of what kind of

exercise/and how often?) I don't count calories. I eat 4-5 meals/snacks

per day, plus 5-6 protein shakes. I haven't been doing " formal " exercising

like I should, but I stay active chasing around my three little boys (6, 4

and 3)

15. Which of these adjuncts do you use? (hypnosis, prayer, affirmations,

journal keeping, therapy, OA, meddies, etc.) Prayer, meds, FRIENDS

16. What is your daily vitamin and mineral supplementation? Ok, got a

awhile? Vit A & D 4x/day; Vit B-Complex 2x/day; Vit D 2x/day; Vit E (400

IU) 4x/day; Zinc (50mg) 2x/day; Multi 2x/day; Hair, Skin & Nails 3x/day;

Calcium (500mg) 4-6x/day (some taken with vites, some mixed into shakes); I

also am in the middle of getting IV iron treatments because oral supplements

didn't work and I get B12 shots because that didn't work orally or

sublingually.

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