Kim T.
I've struggled on and off with my weight most of my adult life. I was only a little over weight as a teenager but during my 20s I took all the excess weight off and kept it off until my early 30s. Then WHAM the weight just kept coming and I could not get it off. I would diet and exercise and some of the weight would come off but if I didn't follow a very strict diet the weight would come back and then some.
There were many changes during those years... a marriage (thought it was a good thing), moving and moving again then moving once more (mixed), the company I work for being sold (very bad), a divorce (a really good thing), moving and moving again (bad and good), meeting a wonderful man who I share my life with (unbelievable great), having a 100 mile round trip commute to work (bad but could be worse), constant change and uncertainty at work (mixed)... the list goes on.
So two years ago I spoke with my former pcp. I wanted to know why I could not get the weight to come off. Was it related to a medical issue? His answer was I should eat less and exercise more. I showed him my food journal and exercise routine (Curves 5x per week plus 15 -20 mile bike rides or 4+ mile walks on weekends). His only reply was that Curves wasn't really exercise.
At that point I kind of gave up. I hit my highest weight in early 2007 (235 - 5'3") and have stayed there since. In the Spring of 2007 I started to get very worried about the excess weight I was carring around. When I stood up it felt like my right hip was going to give out. When I got out of our truck my ankle felt like it was going to buckle under. I couldn't walk or stand for long times as my feet would be an so much pain.
I started thinking about gastric bypass surgery when I read an article in the local paper about a woman who had had the surgery and how successful it had been. I did some research and found a local doctor who was covered by my insurance plan. So on November 12, 2007 I started my journey...
7/7/2008 - 229 - day of surgery
7/14/2008 - 212.5 - down 16.5
7/21/2008 - 204 - down 25
7/29/2008 - 198 - down 31
8/3/2008 - 196.5 - down 32.5
8/11/2008 - 194 - down 35
8/18/2008 - 191.5 - down 37.5
8/26/2008 - 187 - down 42
9/1/2008 - 185.5 - down 43.5
9/7/2008 - 184 - down 45
9/14/2008 - 181.5 down 47.5
9/22/2008 - 181 down 48
9/29/2008 - 177 down 52
10/6/2008 - 175 down 54
10/12/2008 - 172 down 57
10/10/2008 - 171 down 58
10/27/2008 - 167.5 down 61.5
11/10/2008 - 167 down 62
11/17/2008 - 166 down 63
12/01/2008 - 163.5 down 65.5
1/18/2009 - 157 down 72
4/9/2009 - 148.5 down 83.5
