So, it's been two years exactly since I've had RNY surgery and so far, it's in my top 3 for best things I've done for myself! Marrying my wife and having kids are also in that top 3 ;). It's been really awesome since my first year anniversary because I've been way more active in this year than any other year of my 32 year existence. I've been biking a ton and even bought a new bike. I raced in 4 races this year with mild success. Not sure if racing is for me, but it was really fun and even met a couple of great people along the way. Also took part in a mile fun run with my wife and kids. Teagan and I jogged the whole way and did it in 13 minutes! Which to me is pretty awesome because my fastest time in school was no where near that time. Haha. I was so proud to see my daughter actually run with me and to see her have fun was such a rewarding feeling! That was one of the main reasons in getting the surgery, to be able to stay active with my kids, to live a healthier and active life than I previously had and to hopefully instill some healthier values in them that I never got when I was younger. I don't eat the greatest, but I've tried and liked a variety of different foods that I never ate before surgery and actually like them! I still have my bad days of eating shitty foods. For the most part, they don't affect me like they do other gastric bypass patients. I pretty much eat like any normal person now. It's definitely a relief to be able to go in to any place and order anything off their menu. Something in the beginning I thought would never happen again. I didn't want to be the weird person in a group of people not able to have what everyone else was having. Stupid, I know, but I wanted to keep some type of normalcy for my self. That's pretty much been this whole experience for me, the positives out way the negatives on my end.
There have been only a few down sides to the surgery. One of which include the fowl smelling oder that comes from the deep dark depths of hell and expels from my body almost on a daily basis. It's so god awful bad, I feel so bad for my wife and kids who have to put up with it. I laugh at it because there's nothing else I can do about it. It truly baffles me that a person can smell this bad and still be alive. Unfortunately it comes with the surgery, at least that's what they tell me. It's because the food I eat doesn't get digested like normal people's food and it goes through my system quicker, in turn I guess, makes me smell just rotten. The sucky thing is, I haven't found anything to take that will help with the smell. So until then, I'm forced to sit outside and bask in my own smell. Haha.
One other downside that I've had has been the random food blockage I get if I don't chew good enough.im assuming that's what it is because my surgeon doesn't know what causes it. Sometimes I get really sharp pains in my abdomen and it even hospitalized me almost a year ago for it. Come to find out that something, most likely a piece of food, blocked the opening from my other stomach and caused the bile to back up and enlarge my other stomach that was cut away. It can become very serious if the blockage doesn't get removed and now I know that I need to chew better and drink 45 to 60 minutes after my last bite to wash out my system. Since that first time I was in the hospital, I've only had it happen twice and each time I try to drink water and just relax.
So that's been my life the last year or so since I've been on here. I've also had a hernia repaired in April this year, a possible side effect from the surgery, but not totally certain on that. I've maintain my weight between 240lbs and 260lbs for a year. Feeling pretty good about that, but I'm going to focus much harder during the winter to maintain between 215lbs and 225lbs. That's my goal to reach by this spring and hopefully I'll be rewarded with a fat bike that I've been wanting for a while now! Until then, thank you all for the continued support!
Here's a pic of my first year weightloss that I forgot to add to this post. 
