• Username: PozestStar
  • Location: AL, USA
  • Member Since: 2/9/2012
  • BMI: 49.2
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  • Surgery Type: RNY (02/06/12)
  • Surgeon: Ravindra Mailapur
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Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was a skinny little girl, but when I was seven-years-old I went to my grandmothers house. I wasn't allowed to leave the house, there was no TV and there were no kids there to play with. The only thing to do in that house was eat. I ate all. The. Time. My grandmother died that summer, but my eating habit lived on. I've never had a real emotional relationship with food. I don't eat when I'm depressed, happy, sad, mad, lonely or whatever. Gaining weight never made me feel hopeless either. I ate food because I love food. It's delicious! I piled it on my plate at every meal. I drove 30 minutes across town to get to a fast food place when I had a craving. I drank a case of sprite a day. As a poor college student, I went around collecting pennies...
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Weigh under 400 lbs

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lose 100 pounds

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meet the love of my life and marry him

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Shop somewhere other than the plus size department

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fit in my friends car!

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3 months out
on April 24, 2012 10:07 am
Well, it'll be three months in 8 days, but close enough.

As of today I've lost 93.4 lbs in all.  51.4 lbs since the surgery.

I've averaged about 4 lbs lost a week, which is slower than how I was losing weight before surgery.  I was feeling bad about that until I realized that 4 lbs a week is 16 lbs a month or 160 lbs in 10 months!  That's nothing to feel bad about.  Plus I feel good!  Since the surgery I haven't gained any weight, I haven't lost any hair (yet?), and I've never dumped.  I found out that I can tolerate any sort of food and not have a negative reaction, but I also realized that I don't really want any of the junk I used to eat before.

My body is weird.  I'm still wearing the same clothes that I was wearing when I was 100 lbs heavier.  I must have looked like a grapefuit in a banana peel back then!  Ha!  I can't wait til I can wear clothes the next size down.  Right now my clothes are too big, but the next size down is too small.  My top is a snug 2x, my bottom is a 4x, recently down from a 5x (30/32 W).

I can eat more than 1/3rd of a cup of food, but not quite 1/2 a cup of food.

Nothing else to say really.  I feel good.  I still can't "see" where I've lost weight, but I can feel it and that's enough for me.

~Melissa
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5 Days Out
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My Story

My story isn't very unique, but here it is:

I was a thin little girl, but the summer of '94 changed all of that.  I was 7 and I spent two months at my grandmothers house.  There was no cable, no other kids to play with and I wasn't allowed outside.  For two months, the only thing I could occupy myself with was food, and y'all there was a heckuva lot of food.  My grandmother could win the Olympic gold medal for cooking.  So many dishes that I'd never had before were laid out on the table every night.  My average meal was a feast.  Every day, when I was bored, I'd eat left overs or go exploring in the kitchen.

My grandmother died that summer, but the eating habit that I'd acquired there lived on.  It grew, and unfortunately, so did I.

When I was 8 I weighed 120 lbs.

When I was 13, at my middle school graduation, I was 264 lbs.

When I was 17, at my high school graduation, I was 364 lbs.

When I was 24, at my college graduation, I was 460 lbs.

My first thought was, "well damn, I better not go to school anymore or I'll gain another hundred pounds!"   Kidding.  My entire life has been dedicated to education.  I was never allowed a moment to focus on myself.  Even when I saw that I could no longer fit in some cars, sit on some toilets, fit in some doorways or exercise on some equipment, I didn't take the time to fix the problem.

Enough is f__king enough!  I moved back home and started seeing a surgeon in November.  I started walking, eating like I had common sense and I ended up losing 44 lbs.  February 6, 2012 I had my surgery.  As I write this, I'm only 5 days out, but I know in my heart the decision I made was right and has been blessed by God.  I know it's going to be ridiculously hard trying to lose 300 lbs, but I've always been up for a challenge.

Let the journey begin!