Hi all,
My name is Katie I am 29 years old  and I live in Baltimore Maryland. I have been with my husband since I was 16 years old & we have 4 beautiful children together.

I wasn't always "the big girl", I was rather thin until I hit puberty when I was 10. After that the weight started coming. I was able to control it most of my middle & high school years by starving myself and taking tons of OTC diet pills....I can't believe I did die from all that now that I look back. When I started dating my husband I was 16 and 180 lbs, I always carried the weight well & I didn't look my weight. After each one of my children I gain a ton of weight, not during pregnancy but right after...don't ask me what happened there? Anyway by the time I was 20 my weight had jumped to 230, I got depressed thought I was the fattest person in the world & now I which I was still at 230! Being depressed about my weight just made me eat more, it was a never ending battle with food. I had joined Weight Watchers several times & would lose almost 10% hit a bump in the road and gain it all back. I even tried this one program about 18 months which was crazy, they put me on this weird diet where I could eat 1 boiled egg in the morning with 2 pc of turkey bacon and for lunch & dinner I could have a 1/2 head of lettuce (with no dressing) and a can of tuna, one SF jello per day and up to 2 crystal lights per day & they could only be a certain flavor!!! Plus I would have to go and get B12 shots in my butt 3x week...what was I thinking? I have tried many things out there & would lose some & then gain that plus some back. I have been interested in weight loss surgery for many years but was always to scared to. It wasn't until my father died 2 years ago, while on his death bed one of the last things he said to me is to get my weight under control so I wouldn't be diabetic like his entire family went through. Then like 6 of my family members on my mothers side died in 3 months all from heart attacks, and they were in their late 30's early 40's when this happened last year. Also take in mind that I am the ONLY overweight person in my entire family on both sides...the odds were against me! So I decided to get a physical, during my physical & blood work I found out the cold truth, I was prediabetic had high cholesterol, diagnosed with GERD...OMG I am too young for all this!!! So I decided enough is enough and called Sinai's Bariatric program. I went to the seminar that they hold and I was hooked from that point forward I was determined that I am going to beat this fat, it isn't going to beat me! I went for my first appointment and there I was given the packet with all the tests that I need to have done. I went strait home and started scheduling everything. During my many many tests I found out that I also have moderate sleep apnea and now I have a cpap machine...I feel like a 90 year old not a 29 year old mother of 4. So I went & did all my dietitian meeting required by my insurance and my pre-op appointment is on June 9th!!!!  Let the melting begin