Maharet
little about me.
I am a young 24 year old who is looking forward to turning 25 this year. Like everyone on here I am morbidly obese standing at 5'1 weighing 238 lbs. The term morbidly obese has been a friend of mine for years. It all started when I was a teenager. I was overweight then weighing in at 150 lbs. I wanted to lose 20 lbs but I ended up gaining 10 lbs instead. Baffled by how this happened I started biking and walking more but it was like my body took over and I just started blowing up. By my senior year in high school I was 208lbs. I didnt realize how big I was until I saw a picture of myself. I felt so awful. I looked into bariatric surgery then but I was barely at the 40 BMI point and with me being only 18 they thought that I would lose the teenage weight. They didn't even put into thought that most of the women on boths sides of my family were 2 and three times bigger than what I weighed. The first time I applied for bariatric surgery it was through united health care PPO and they approved it but my father wouldn't let me go to Michigan to have the surgery so I didn't get it done. Then about 4 yrs later in early 2004 I tried again my insurance was changing in two weeks to BCBS. I filed through BCBS and I was denied twice because I didn't have a letter of recommendation and a year of supervised weight loss to support my need for surgery, I was devastated but I wanted to continue to try to lose weight on my own so I waited about a year before going to see a doctor to help me lose weight. So here it is some seven years later and in between that time I have ballooned to 256 lbs. So far I lost 28 but gained 8. I just can't seem to get under the 230 mark. My mother was the same way. Now I have everything that the insurance needs and I have a very confident feeling that I will have surgery by April of this year if not before. I'm ready to have this more than ever. I'm now engaged and I have made it my personal goal that I will not walk down the aisle in a plus size 20 wedding gown.
