LizTlilwitchy
I have been overweight most of my life, since maybe 6, 7 or 8? I was always one of the biggest kids in Elementary School and Middle School, then I gained 100 pounds in High School. By the time I started my Freshman year in College, I weighed 230 pounds.
I have tried every diet, pill, book, exercise out there....at least twice. I have dozens of books on diet and excersize. I have done the diet Doctor route twice. If it exists, then I have probably tried it at least once or twice. I have felt like I have spent my entire life on a diet or trying to start a diet.
I have always had very low self-esteem and have been working my entire adult life to improve that. (I am now 53 years old) I have lost a considerable amount of weight 60-65 pounds, on one diet or another twice in my life. The first time in 1991 and the second in 2006. I have lost hundreds of pounds ever since my first diet when my Mom and I went to Weight Watchers when I was about 12 or 13 years old. I have always gained it back....and then some! When I lost the weight in 2006, I started ar 209 and got down to about 150. I started running and was training for a marathon and felt fantastic and I swore to myself I would never be fat again! Well guess what? My knee started going out on me, and I stopped doing what I needed to to maintain my weight loss, and Never is a BIG word! I have been dieting on and off for the past 10 years since, and gained it all back plus another half a person! I got all the way up to 280! My highest ever weight, and definitely nothing to be proud of! About two years ago I was diagnosed with fatty liver disease. That was quite a shock! According to my Doctors, I should be able to reverse most of it through proper diet and excersice.
I started this journey to VSG back in June of 2015 by attending a seminar at University of Cincinnati Health Weight Loss Center. It has seemed like a very long process to get all of my health tests, clearances and insurance approvals. I had a lot of hoops to jump through. Cardiology appointments, Mental Health screening, Insurance approval. The thing that took the longest were the sleep tests, and yes, I had to wait for a CPap machine, because I was diagnosed with sleep apnea. Luckily, all systems are a go, and I am scheduled for my VSG on 5/06/16!
I am both excited and terrified!
Liz
