314NewMeAllOverAgain11
My story is very simple I guess you can say.
I'm 23 years old. The youngest of two girls and the heaviest in my family. I've been overweight most all of my life.
Even though I was very active in dancing, stepping, and even on the swim team it was still hard for me to lose weight. Every now and then I would try a diet or change my eating patterns, but it seem like nothing would help.
Everybody would tell me to stop over eating. It's funny because the doctor would tell me that I'm not eating enough. I always knew what food to eat and how to eat and for the most part I ate healthly, no fried foods, not a lot of sweets but you know every one gets that sweet craving every now and then.
It wasnt until maybe 2 years ago I was really stressed out and gained a lot of weight. I guess birthday cake and ice cream was the big help with that since that's what I went to every time something was going wrong. Reality didn't slap me in the face until I looked up and saw that I was nearly 400lbs and started to break down and needed to do somthing to save my life. I never thought I was even that heavy. I didnt have any health problems, was active, no issues, but seeing that weight really scared me to death and I knew I had to take over my life. Within that year I lost about 30lbs which made me really happy but for a year I've been stuck at the same weight.
It wasn't until about a year ago when I thought about getting weight loss surgery. But then, I started having second thoughts about it. On Sept, 19 2011 I found out I was approved for surgery. I was so happy. Words can't explain how I feel. Now a month has passed and its getting closer and closer to my surgery date Oct 26th 2011, 2 days away.
I've been on my liquid diet for 5 days now and proud to say I've lost 14lbs so far.
I'm really excited about my gastric sleeve surgery and can't wait to see and be apart of a whole new adventure.
