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  • Username: Sakinah1
  • Location: MD, USA
  • Member Since: 8/2/2007
  • BMI: 41.3
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schedule a surgery date

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Stay committed to this process and not get discouraged.

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To get my surgery approved :)

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successfully complete my six months of dieting with my physician's supervision

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Years Later....the saga continues.
on December 24, 2011 7:10 am
I last wrote in August 2007, when my son Adam was 5 months old. He is almost 5 years onld now and I have had another child, Lena who will be 2 in February. Childbearing is behind me now so I am serious this time about getting to the surgery, better health and better fashion. lol.

I have had my surgical consult with Dr. Anne Lidor at Johns Hopkins Bayview. She seems serious and competent. I have begun my six moths of physician supervised weight loss with my PCP, Dr. Yasmeen Ahmed. Dr. Ahmed was not initially supportive however for improving my obesity related health issues - hypertension, pre-diabetes, high cholesterol - she is going along with my desire to have bariatric surgery.

My weight has increased since 2007, hovering around 293 pounds give or take. I hit a non-pregnant high of 301 one day a few months ago. My weight seems to fluctuate quite a bit on a daily basis. When I was preganant with my daughter I went as high as 299 but never over the 300 mark,

Please wish me luck, pray for me, etc. This time it needs to happen.
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What is a girl to do?
on August 8, 2007 7:39 pm
August 8, 2007
Today I played with the BMI calculator to find out how much weight I could lose and remain morbidly obese so that I can qualify for a lap band. I could lose about 20 pounds. I had a silly conversation with myself - What if I lose 30 pounds and keep it off? I will disqualify myself for surgery and still be fat. I will only lose 20 pounds, not more. This seems insane to me but so does eating everything under the sun so that I will have no problem qualifying.
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My Story

I am so happy to be here.
I have struggled with my weight all of my life. I have always been a "big girl". When I was 175 pound at age 12 and I competed in a gymnastics tournament. . I was between 200-220 pounds as a teen and young adult. Most people didn't consider me really fat until i was in my 30s.

After my second divorce I was a 33 years old single parent with three children and weighed about 270, I went on an Ephedra and Starbucks black coffee diet. My mantra was "do everything" because I had a crazy amount of energy. I worked, did Tae-Bo twice a day, took the children to the park, cooked and went grocery shopping after dinner. By the time I was down to 235 pounds, I was diagnosed with chronic hypertension. It runs in my family but my mother wasn't diagnosed until she was in her sixties. My doctor attributed mine to the use of ephedra. I had to start taking daily medication for my blood pressure.  Another marriage and divorced helped me to reach 300 pounds. I couldn't believe it.  I lost 50 pound under a doctor's supervision and kept it off for about a year.

I got married again! My weight was creeping up  by the time I got pregnant last year.  I gave birth to my bouncing baby boy on March 18, 2007. I am still nursing him so I probably won't be able to have the surgery until next summer. I am hovering around 285 pounds these days. My journey to here has been long and eventful but I am 41 years old, blessed with a wonderful husband (finally) and four fantastic children to support me through this journey.