shining_starre
Success of a Lifetime!!
Aug 13, 2014
It has taken me well over 6 months to get on this website. I was introduced to it a year ago before I had my surgery, but didn't want to face talking about weight issues. I was over 240 pounds. Only 60 pounds off from being an even 300. That is when I decided to start pushing for my surgery all over again. I had asked for it year after year before, but I kept being denied. I worked for 2 years trying to convince the doctors that I wasn't going to do anything drastic. I had my surgery in December 2013. I was ready, willing and able to go through all the hardships they kept telling me about. The most difficult part for me was the liquid diet. I always felt so starving, and all I could do was drink all these disgusting liquids with protein shakes being the main ones. I could hardly have anything at all without throwing it up, so I also spent a lot of time just crying. I chose not to tell my family. They would rather gossip about me and tell everybody else what I'm doing in a negative way instead of offering their support. This is a surgery of a lifetime, and I wasn't going to let anyone ruin that for me...family or not. I've almost reached my one year mark since I've had my surgery. It's been so difficult, and I got so mad at myself for not losing any weight at all for at least 2 weeks. I've lost over 100 pounds now, and am still losing. People who saw me before I had my surgery see me now and their jaw drops and they tell me I look so much better. I know that I should feel good and proud of hearing this sort of thing, but I can't help feeling embarrassed, and don't want to talk anymore about it and change the subject. I still refuse to talk about weight issues, or even mention food of any kind. I had no idea that I would one day have weight issues, and be faced with trying to get weight loss surgery. What I thought was impossible has become something that I never looked at in a positive light before. When separating the word "IMPOSSIBLE," one can see very clearly that it goes from "Impossible" to "I'm Possible." You really are worth it!!