my journey to weight loss

i have been overweight all of my life. i always got teased from everyone at school even at home. I was dieting since 6th grade. I remember going to fitness clubs with my mom drinking slim fast for lunch( uggh back then it was powder) and even though my mom never knew I also took diet pills. I feel as if I never really got to be a normal child because i had to struggle with foods and diets. At age 12 I was over 200 pounds.My parents and siblings were always thin. But my cousins and aunts and uncles struggled with their weight and now that they are older my uncle has had several heart attacks my cousin has diabetes which she didn't know about until she was unable to see and my aunt cant even walk upstairs without oxygen and they aren't even over the age of 50! I tried so many diets and so many diet pills and since my insurance usually didn't cover them I used friends diet pills and every time I would be so optimistic and I would exercise and buy clothes too small for me to motivate me more and every time I only lost 10 ibs or less.I am 341 ibs my highest it has ever been and it hurts my knees and back to go up stairs I am always tired and always feel sick I have four young boys that I would love to play basketball with if it wasn't so painful.I want a healthy life its not even so much about how I look but I want to feel healthy. I have so many skin problems I just cannot believe that I let myself get to this point. I quit smoking two months ago so I can workout which i have a customized workout on wii ea fit it is very painful and after 30 min of an excruciating painful workout I only burn 200 calories. so it didn't even burn off the lean cuisine I had for lunch.I take full responsibility for my weight I made alot of bad choices which I am suffering the consequences but I am doing something about it. I have been thinking about gastric bypass surgery and lap band for over two years and finally decided to pursue it after two doctors denied me anymore diet pills and recommended surgery because I am super obese. I wanted lap band but after hearing about so much failed weight loss with it I decided on RNY since the insurance only pays for it once. SO I have seen nutritionist and did psych eval and labs and EKG and pulmonary and sleep study (which I figured I had) and I have severe sleep apnea. I went to seminar and support group and physical therapist and Bobby Wu will perform my RNY I have 1 month left of pcp diet and I just got most of my medical records so I could be more accurate with dates of weights and diets. I will be submitting insurance in a couple of weeks and I would like to schedule surgery for April 2 since I have off of work for spring break i WILL KEEP YOU POSTED

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