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Are you scared to regain weight post op? Or have you already started to regain weight?

The first thing patients tend to do in this case, is to decrease their portion sizes even further in an attempt to lose weight or maintain where they are at. This can result in you not filling up enough at your mealtime, which can then lead to grazing/ picking throughout the day, which will then lead to weight regain. Even if you are grazing on healthy food such as fruit, vegetables or proteins it can still result in regain. Some patients also start to crave sweets – especially gummy sweets.

Rather aim to increase your portion of wholefoods (protein, vegetables, fruits & whole wheat carbohydrates) at your mealtime, so that you stay satisfied for longer, your sugar levels are controlled and grazing can be prevented.

I'll be talking about counting calories and how diets don't work post operatively in my free webinar coming soon!

Ja nê. Dit laat my soms pyn as ek sien hoe dit iets ergers is as ń pragtige dogtertjie, vrou, kind vermoor of verkrag word. Asof die minder mooi mense nie so erg is nie. Jy hoor altyd " en dit was so pragtige ou dogtertjie of dit was so pragtige vrou".... Miskien sien ek dit van die verkeerde perspektief af maar ek is oombliklik kwaad as iets beoordeel word op hoe mooi of lelik iemand is.

So ja ń breinlose idioot het besluit dis nou my b***t om sy totale ongestimuleerde kinderbrein te oefen en my fotos en profile fotos te steel en ń page met my page se naam oop te maak en mense te kontak.

SO ASSEBLIEF!!!!! EK SAL NIEMAND KONTAK OM MY PAGE TE LIKE, VIR MY GELD TE GEE OF TE LEEN, OF IEMAND SMEEK OM IETS BY MY TE KOOP NIE. OOK HET EK NIKS WEG TE GEE NIE AS PRYS VIR IETS OF TEEN Ń POSGELD BETALINGTJIE NIE. EK HET GEEN IDEE WAT DIE SWAPE DOEN EN VRA ONDER MY NAAM NIE.

Al wat ek doen is ek post fotos van my werk. Elke dag. Ek kontak niemand tensy jy my nie kontak nie. So as jy van my hoor....dis nie ek nie tensy ons bitter goeie en naby vriende is. Ek is ñ ekstreme introvert en haat dit om kleingeld geselsies aan te knoop.

Hier is die link na een van die domste wesens op aarde se vals page. As julle soontoe kan gaan en dit rapporteer of blok op enige manier wat julle moontlik kan sal ek so dankbaar wees.

https://www.facebook.com/sinoyolo.inathi

Yesterday the 2 March marked the 2 year anniversary of the beginning of my bariatric journey with my team. Not the operation date yet, but my very first appointment with them and my journey onwards.. When I, very tired, but also super excited, walked out of that VERY long day of tests and tests and consultations upon consultations, but with an operation date nontheless, my life were about to change soon in the best possible way. 6 weeks of intense tests and all sorts of diagnositc things to prepare me for the big operation date of 25 April 2022. (And I am also proud to say that exact same day, half an hour before I went into theatre this little cute thing in the photo here, which I call my very first grandchild was born. I literally saw newborn photos of her the minute they came in to take my phone in for safekeeping.)

Ditto and NO respect whatsoever from me...

I wonder who knows why public toilets with doors that looks like this strike fear in most post bariatric patients hearts? 😂😂😂

Still contemplating whether I should go the route of daring to make a perhapsTO MUCH INFO post but I believe will settle alot of unanswered questions about the rather nerve wrecking restroom habits after such a surgery..especially in public and if you have a family who lovingly comfort you by joking around with your embarresments. 😂😂🙈

Hmmm let me think about this one a little bit more. ☺️

I still say...in spite of it all I will do it again in a heartbeat..

Daar is sommige mense wat kla hulle kry nie my whatsapp status updates meer nie en dit het my gepuzzle. Toe het ek gaan oplees en besef die enigste rede is dat my foon nr verander het. Hulle sê as my nommer verander het en my kontakte verander en sit my nie op hulle kontaklys nie kry hulle nie status updates nie. Wel my nr het verander na 0814188670. As jy nie die updates kry nie en jy wil maak seker jy add my naam en nr op jou kontaklys. Geen idee of dit werk nie en of dit regtig dit is nie. Probeer dit en dalk kan jy my laat weet of dit werk vir jou!

Heerlike naweek vir jou!

And so there are many, many more. It changed my life, my mental health, my blood pressure, my heart, my energy levels, my aches and pains, my bad knees. You name it, it is cured. And best of all I am not that shy person who just wanted to hide myself and who felt like I did not deserve a say, or enjoy a plate of food in a public restautant. Even if all the doom stories were true and I die 10 years earlier it would still be worth it.

I got attacked by a person the other day after I commented on her shaming this other hospital in Turkey, on their very own page marketing their bariatric surgeries. She went on to take screenshots of every, totally normal comment I made, where I just told her that its rude to use a business's page to promote your own personal agenda and opinions about a thing on every single relevant and non relevant post or comment this hospital made.. Why not start your own page then where you can spew your venom as much as you want. Those who know me I am not one to just keep quiet when people are like that. I just cannot.🙃.

Well the next moment she and her husband or someone started to harass me on fb. Under a fake profile it seems. Posting screenshots of my comments (on totally irrelevant posts of mine) telling me I am a disgusting, ill mannered person who does not believe HER professor(professor of what if I may ask also)...as if I could care one bit about what her professor says anyway and as if I would ignore my own professor's knowledge who actually have a lifetime of experience in this area. And accused me of lying about having the operation and also about being healthy on top of it. I just smiled. Blocked her and reported her for harassment.

Next moment they moved on to my husbands page where they once again placed all the screenshots of my comments 🤷🏻‍♀️ (again) raising a desperate plea 🤣🤣🤣 with him that they hope he can see through me!😂 This was such a laughable thing I actually did not have words!My husband who I have known for 35 years and have been married to for 32 years😂😂😂 Well I sincerely think if he cannot see through me by now maybe he is does not deserve to!😂😂😂🤣

But anyway. That just goes to show. They know one person who have complications and now want to pin it on the surgery and doctors. The things they raised that was of concern in their own case was info that was given to me right in my very first consultation already about the risk of malnutrition. Knew that. Had the choice whether I would be willing to live with that and take precautions for it not to happen. Also were told on my very first consultation that you have to take vitamines for the rest of your life. If not willing to eat the right food with the right nutritional values and not willing to take vitamines for the rest if your live and not listening to your team and especially not doing proper research beforehand may indeed get you to a place where you do not want to be. You cannot blame the surgery or the doctors if you did not do your own research properly as they, if they are a proper team will inform you about all the risks before the time. And for the part they did not inform you about it still remains your own responsibility to do the research yourself.

I did intense research. For 20 odd years. And after my surgery therr were leterslly nothing that caught me of guard. Except the overall overwhelming feeling of gratitude. I am a bag full of wrinkles now yes 😊 (that I researched as well beforehand). Especially at age 49 when my op was done (almost 2 years ago) my skin were definately not the epitome of elasticity anymore. But to me its actually much better than expected. Still would do it over and over and over again. Because the overall feeling of well being make up for any bad that I experienced till now.

So yes harass me all you want, I still stand by my opinion..

Guess what is the newest joke in our house?

"Daniel do you see through me?" 😉

One of my pet peeves is that society thinks bariatric surgery is the easy way out! It is absolutely not. It is a lifelong dedication to a healthy lifestyle, consultations with a bariatric team and vitamin and mineral supplementation. If a patient does not change their habits and adapt to their new way of life the surgery will not be as successful.

Dear patient,
Please don’t let anyone take away your hard work and dedication. Changing habits of a lifetime is hard. Your journey is unique, so adapt, stay positive and move forward. Don’t let other people’s misperceptions stand in your way, X

God of all time,
help us enter the New Year -
quietly...

Thoughtful of who we are to ourselves
and to others,
mindful that our steps make an impact
and our words carry power.
May we walk gently.
May we speak
only after we have listened well.

Creator of all life,
help us enter the New Year -
reverently...

Aware that You have endowed
every creature and plant,
every person and habitat
with beauty and purpose.
May we regard the world
with tenderness.
May we honor rather than destroy.

Lover of all souls,
help us enter the New Year -
joyfully...

Willing to laugh and dance and dream,
remembering our many gifts with thanks
and looking forward
to blessings yet to come.
May we welcome your lavish love.
May we cast off the small, vindictive god
our fears have made.
- VH Wright

I am eternally grateful...

Does this life changing event take all your problems away? By no means not. Are you happy everyday and all day? Most definately not. To that my family will be able to testify loud and clear. In fact this is the year I experienced more hurt and pain internally (nothing physical or to do with the op, but rather sadly only due to human beings) than ever before due to different reasons to me, but with the benefit of now having inner strength much more than before to fight off the giants on my road. I am so much more capable and confident in doing that now. I am also not the sorry-ass, excuse-me-for-living being anymore and that is so freeing! Thanks to my psychologist David, who warned me before the op that my tolerance level for nonsens will probably get very low afterwards. And yes it is true, it sometimes almost catches me off guard. The always yes girl from before versus the I-know-who-I-am-and-I - know-I-am-worthy-and- enough girl of now. Worthy and enough to Him, my husband and my close family. The rest I could not give one second of thought about. I care as much as the ones in question do.... Nothing.

Is there a ceiling on how much you can be grateful? I am sure there is not, as it gets exponentially more and more everyday. And that in itself brings a growth in character that cannot be explained...

Whilst I was very, very, much, much more obese than her and thank God for the means of grace I got through this operation, I will forever fight the fight for big girls to be treated the same as any other person and with respect. I already saw some ugly comments regarding her size calling her obese. Really? Obese? The world have a real serious problem and they take out their own ugly thoughts and hearts on fat/curvy people. How does the saying go? If you spot it, you got it. So if you are quick to see the "ill" discipline of others and maybe that show in their bodies, and you boldly proclaim your stance about it, it just might be that you spot it because you got it in some other, even more destructive area in your life. I can guarantee you, look deeper within yourself and you will most assuredly find it to be true.

If you were or still am absolutely miserable as an obese person I agree, then do something about it, by all means as you need to be healthy and happy, but for peace sake respect those who are not feeling like you and who feel happy and most importantly healthy in their skin as it is.

I cannot say enough how I detest people having all sorts of high horse opinions about obese people. And also treat them as if they are deaf, blind and lazy. And its so much more sad to hear it come from the mouths of people who were delivered from that kind of life themselves by this great tool of ours.

While I was absolutely 100% misrable as an obese person and thank God for the grace I received to do something scientifically to help me with the almost impossible, I salute Miss Nepal for her courage and love of self. Love of self will much more move you out of the place where you do not want to be than self loathing and hate. That is if you need to or want to.

To ridicule people for how they look, even as adults just show how your own childish bullying haven't been laid to rest. Even as an adult person.

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It's always strange to me how people talk about even laugh about fat people or being fat even whilst in that very same conversation fat persons are present. This was and still is something that irritate the living daylights out of me!

I once heard about a parent couple that refuses to leave their child with a chubby girl as she will be lazy and not quick enough in emergencies.... What load of crap... I suppose the countless videos coming out every now and then about super skinny, I suppose, super "fast" babysitters who abuses and hurt babies does nothing to change your mind. I am not saying skinny people abuse children but I am saying it's super super unfair, judgemental amd idiotic to judge a person's work ethic or ability by their weight.

Fat people are there. They notice. They are not to lazy to hear, they hear, they see, they feel ignorant and hurtful comments.

By having such conversations in company of people who are fat is just plain arrogant, rude and tell me much more about the ignorant conversationists than about the fat person.

Fat persons are not lazy. Most of them have to work twice as hard just to be acknowledged for something they are really good at. What a sick testimony to the character of the world out there.

I never really spoken out against it while being fat myself as I know it would be viewed as advocating for myself and my "lifestyle". I won't even go there now to discuss all that. That is a story for another day. But I always promised myself if I ever were in a more normal weight range I would speak out in defense of the ones who, out of shame just take the slashing tongues and words in quietness.

My bariatric psychologist once told me he was at a function where someone came up to him saying "so dis jou werk om vir vet mense te sê om minder te vreet..." He told me that the only thought he could have about that person is that he himself needs a few very hefty physchology sessions. I could not agree more.

I thank God everyday for professionals who took the time and effort to study this obesity problem and start to change society's ancient believes about it.

If I had all the money in the world I would make it possible for a lot more people to have this liberating surgery. Liberating on SO many levels!

Yes... the one thing about this journey is that its not cheap...Regarding supplements, vitamines, regular check ups (if you are responsible about staying healthy) and of course new right sized clothing. I changed from size 28 to 18, 16, 14 or 5xl to M, L or XL. Depending on make. So I had to redo my whole wardrobe on a string. I managed to do that spending no more than I think R2000,maximum R3000 over months!

I get asked the question alot "how do you go about right sized clothes? ".

I, being a poor artist 😂🙈 did not and do not have money at all to change my wardrobe every few weeks. In this case I would have needed to change it every few weeks. So I had to improvise. And today I thank God for giving me am adaptable personality.
So I adopted and swallowed my pride. And as always when pride is out of the way a whole new exciting world opens for you!

Someone hand me down their clothes from before and during their own bariatric journey. That was a BIG blessing. That helped me through the inital quick loss phases and still do. Eventually when I changed into a more normal body shape I chuck my pride and took the first step into a thrift shop, hospice shop, charity shop. Oh and of course the numerious fb destash groups.

I was really, really surprised to discover that you get alot of QUALITY stuff there if you just take the time.

And best of all you pay prices like R15, R20, R30, R45 a shirt still looking like it never have been worn.

I am a total t-shirt addict and bought countless t-shirts that is stunning of those shelves. Nobody needs to know that I wear stuff from there if I do not want them. But...I don't care. 🤷🏻‍♀️

As the bariatric team psychologist warned and told me before ánd after the op, I will find, for some reason, that I lose my tolerance for taking nonsens as well. And I think my family will testify to that, that its true! 😂. But, I love it because for far too long I just allowed people and life dictate to me and walk over me about what I should or should not be doing just because I felt like I had no right in this world to an opinion and life and choices of my own just because I was fat and felt like I was taking up other people's space and better keep in line.

No more. Now I do not care one bit about people's opinions. I walk into that shops every now and then and buy myself the most beautiful and lovely and comfy shirts, tshirts, skirts etc. And I love that part of the journey as well. Its exciting and my husband doesn't faint about the amount of money I spend there! 😂

I just wish my size jeans were not that scarce! Because that gets snatched up really quick.

I try to adopt the lifestyle as written about by Sarah Ban Breathnach in her book Romancing the ordinary. Where you try to find joy in the most simple of things. This is one journey that I hesitantly started but thoroughly enjoy now! Joyful simplicities! And the great thing is that I, as an artist that loves recycling old things to be beautiful art, gets to live a greener life as a result as well.

And Miertjies, my first grandchild who was born on my operation day, just love the gypsy skirt on this pic! When I have it on she tries her best to pull it off or she hugs my legs real tight all the time to feel the fabric with the nice colors!

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Groot mylpaal vir my die week! 80.5 kg af in 15 maande!

Ek voel baie nederig dankbaar en wil net huil van vreugde vir tweede kanse, die heeltyd. Ek d**k nie enige iemand wat was waar ek was en waar so baie nog is sal die diepte van daai put besef nie. En ek kan net weer en weer beklemtoon hoe gewalg ek is aan die wêreld se manier van oorgewig mense hanteer nie. Ek kan nie genoeg sê vee voor jou eie deur voor jy jou mond wil rek oor ander en ewige letsels op hulle siele los nie. Niemand van ons is gekwalifiseerd of deur God opdrag gegee om ons monde oor ander uit te spoel nie. Dit boomerang sonder uitsondering. As dit nie nou gaan gebeur nie, sal dit wel later. Oppas wat jy oor jou eie lewe roep deur jou uitsprake oor ander.

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Even though I lost most of my excess weight already this is a topic that I feel so passionately angry about. When you are fat you cannot even go to the dr for an ingrown toenail without them trying to blame being overweight as the reason. So selfishly unethically prejudgmental and costing many, many people their lifes.

Before I received the blessing of going the private route with my bariatric surgery, me and my husband were signed up at the Steve Biko academic hospital for the procedure which means it would have been very much more affordable with a much lenthier waiting period of course.

But there they ignore the fact and reason why you are sitting there in front of them in the first place. Because you could not manage to lose weight on your own for 30 years... Well, woopy doo, they told us we had to lose 25 kg first before they would operate. How brilliantly helpful. And we tried, and tried believe me, through Covid and it was hell and almost impossible. As many obese people can testify.

Because it's a brain thing you have to fight a tiny part in your brain which are powerfully set up to keep aiming and moving your body back to its previous highest weight. Thank God, somebody loved me enough to take me via the private route. Through a medical team who did not expect me to lose a single kg, just not pick up anything during the 6 week period going before the operation. As they said, a good doctor should be able to operate on any size.

They did operate with no complications and my life saved a whole year before the state were even willing to try and look at saving my life. With their ignorant life views.

I am forever grateful for my team who cared enough to help me immediately. The change it brought to my life is breathtakingly wonderful.

Quite some sagging skin and almost no b***s left 😊 but I could not care one bit about that, as the other advantages are just to awesome to mention. No more knee pain, no more walking like a 90 year old, no more back pain, no more heel pain, no more heart problems, no more blood pressure, no more hot facial sweats, even in winter (my biggest embarrassment at the time) no more refusing to go out or get out of the car with my husband just for the sake of him loving it that I do, no more pre diabetic, no more sleep apnea, no more struggling to get clothes that fit in my style.

I have my life back due to an awesome and scientific team that understand the metabolic processes and act accordingly. . Maybe the state should learn from them since they are training doctors for future....and proved to be successful beyond measure. Thousands and thousands of people through their program already.