staceymf
I think my story starts out pretty much the same as many. I've been overweight since childhood. I started weight loss programs by the time I was in the 6th grade. By the time I got out of High School I had decided that I was just not going to be able to lose weight. I was eating fast food but not really much in the way of sweets and was fairly active. I decided that I was happy with myself so I was just going to quit dieting and be happy and just live my life. this worked for a few years 
but then in my late twenties all of these pesky medical problems started poking their heads up. they aren't the typical "co-morbitities" of being super obese (which I was but just ignored) but still, problems just the same. Finally, in my early 30's when I took weight loss seriously and decided I needed to really change my life and was done with the "I'M FINE" lie I started working out and feeling great and losing weight! Suddenly one day an unexplainable change came over me and I lost all of my energy and gained all of that weight right back. I had been thinking of and studying WLS on my own for a while and this was the final push I needed to make the decision to go forward with this life changing surgery. I am looking forward to starting a new chapter in my life and doing things I've never done before.
