Lana_Banana
This is just the beginning!
Oct 06, 2011
I'm not really sure how to start but here I go. My name is Alana, I am 26 years old and have a wonderful supportive fiance and a 2 and a half year old son. I have been overweight as far back as I can remember but never as big as I am now. I started this weightloss journey about a year and a half ago when my father told me about this woman he met that had it done (not that he was suggesting it for me but a girl gets an idea and she runs with it right?) When I used to hear about gastric bypass I pictured these 5000lb people that had so much fat it looked like their faces were being swallowed and thought "poor soul, must be hard" and if I heard of someone smaller than me getting the surgey I thought "my my don't you think that's a little extreme?". Boy-o-boy was I ever nieve. Little did I know a few years down the road I would be right there in that seat staring down the end of a better life thinking "why didn't I do this sooner??".
Anyone reading this and thinking "why? why the extreme?", well here you go. I could list a million reasons why I want to lose weight, and I will give you some examples of this, but the reason why I am willing to be put out on an operating table and have me insides re-worked is simply needing help. If we could all have the conscious mind to say I'm only eating things that are super healthy and going to make me some super model, well... we would all be super models. I have a let's say "lively" young boy who needs me to be something that, at this size, I just can't be for him and it tears me apart. I want to run with him, I want to jump with him, I want to teach him how to play sports, and go on family bike rides with him. I can't remember the last time I was on a bike all I can remember was the feeling of wondering if anyone else noticed how far up my ass (pardon my language) the seat was! Eventually I also want to have another child. It was hard enough to carry at the size I was and that was about 40lbs less than I am now. So when somebody asks me "why? why the extreme?" Simply put my reply will be "for my future".
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Anyone reading this and thinking "why? why the extreme?", well here you go. I could list a million reasons why I want to lose weight, and I will give you some examples of this, but the reason why I am willing to be put out on an operating table and have me insides re-worked is simply needing help. If we could all have the conscious mind to say I'm only eating things that are super healthy and going to make me some super model, well... we would all be super models. I have a let's say "lively" young boy who needs me to be something that, at this size, I just can't be for him and it tears me apart. I want to run with him, I want to jump with him, I want to teach him how to play sports, and go on family bike rides with him. I can't remember the last time I was on a bike all I can remember was the feeling of wondering if anyone else noticed how far up my ass (pardon my language) the seat was! Eventually I also want to have another child. It was hard enough to carry at the size I was and that was about 40lbs less than I am now. So when somebody asks me "why? why the extreme?" Simply put my reply will be "for my future".
