People can reduce the weight by doing regular exercises and by less eating of fat foods. Nowadays, many treatments for reducing weight are there such as tablets and drugs are available but it creates problem for the health in future. =================================== linasandy Tennessee Alcohol Addiction Treatment

________________________________________ Sent: Monday, March 31, 2008 7:06 AM I just watched your great video at theweighwewere and I cried at the end because you look so much happier! I read in your comment that you still live succesfully well after your bypass 14 yrs ago. Well done! I am a pre-op myself, 30 yrs old and a bmi of almost 50. I have 2 young boys of 2 yrs and 3 months and I want to be a healthier mum for them. But I am really scared of the surgery and life after that. If you do have time, I would love to hear from you how your life has been so far post op! Not so many stories of long term post op to find. Since I am only 30, I would like to know that it is possivle to live long and healthy even after such a big operation. Hoe is your life now? Do you have any health problems? Eating problems? Are you still happy with your choices? I just can;t imagine a life where I will never eat any sugar ever, take viatmins every day, never have any alcohol, never drink with meals and maybe can not tolerate fizzy drinks, meat or bread or milk... I am very curious how your daily life is now, what do you eat on a typical day? Is it still very hard work? Do you work out? Can you tolerate everything? ________________________________________ CH\'s comments: Food isn’t a passion for me any longer… in fact, I’ve taken to eating much better foods and trying new things (like Sushi type meals, fish, etc)… I’ve kept the weight off and I’m really happy about that. I feel much healthier and for the most part, take the bariatric vitamins and iron to stay balanced. I’d do the surgery again in a heart beat—but warning about the next paragraph below. However, I do drink and probably too much. It’s my “transfer addiction”. Too much meaning I like to keep beer in the house where as before the surgery, I would drink whenever I felt like it but now I like to have a beer when I get home from work. It’s a day by day thing for me and right now, I’m pretty much balanced. I found out that drinking actually started causing me blackouts about a year ago … meaning, I would look like I was concisous and normal but in reality, my short term memory phased out. That was really scary for me. And I was at the point where I could black out on one glass of wine! Yikes!! My doctor evaluated me and said I was anemic and needed to step up and double my vitamins and iron. I’ve done that. She also said that I might now have an allergic reaction and/or with correlation to my new stomach and new “body chemistry”, I have absolutely no tolerance for alcohol. It’s just processed very different now than when I was obese and had a normal stomach. I’ve been on a medicine called “Naltexone” for that for about 9 months and it’s done wonders. I can drink but it doesn’t cause me black outs. I still need to watch myself… watch the transfer addiction symptoms… meaning, I always need to make sure that when I stress out or have compulsions about drinking, find healthier alternatives. It’s still one day a time for me but it’s sure been a positive experience overall… I say that because I spent about 30 years morbidly obese and obsessed with being overweight and yes, I need to watch the alcohol on a day to day basis, it sure beats the alternative of being obese. My .02! Good luck!