Finding My Way

[newmama]

lol, Mystik-- you are right- that was a typo! I am NOT judging you but agree with CW about the dangers of doing a quick fix when the emotional issues will pop up in another way. And with the surgery, you would lose weight fast and then have sagging skin that would require plastic surgery or covering your body up.

How are your ovaries? Seriously--when I was having trouble doing everything you described and the weight wouldn't come off except when I was starving myself, it turned out that there was another problem. I had a very large cyst on one of my ovaries. I didn't know until I had an attack and they did an MRI. I had that sucker removed and the weight seemed to melt off! I did the same thing I did prior to the surgery (worked out 5 days per week and reducing my calories but also eating out 1 day per week). This time the weight came off. And I was able to do it again after my pregnancy, so I think the cyst was to blame.

Turns out that women who have polycystic ovarian syndrome have weight gain issues among other things. Now I don't have that, but like I said, I did have a 6.5" cyst. I read about PCOS in one of Dr. Oz's weight loss books and asked my doctor to run tests. The tests showed that I didn't have it but then 6 months later I had an extremely painful attack that landed me in the ER.
Otherwise I wouldn't have known about it.

My point is that it is still worth getting those tests (blood samples but I can't remember what they test) just to screen. And have your OBGYN look into it.