Alisa W.
Hi my name is Alisa and I am about to have WLS surgery. I am 40 years old and a single Mom to 2 beautiful daughters age 17 and 11. I have overcome many things in life, but never my weight. I have been heavy set pretty much my whole life. After I got married, I did not own a scale and my weight ballooned without me being aware. Over the years I have been on many diets and I have never lost more than about 30-40 lbs. Sometimes I would keep it off for a year, but then I always gained it back. Now I am 40, have anxiety and mild depression, sleep apnea, high chloestrol, am borderline diabetic and a seriously nasty gout problem. I am sick of being sick. I am to young to be this messed up. I can no longer do what I want, because my body interfers all the time. I really want the chance to be healthy and energized again. I want to enjoy raising my kids and to someday spoil my grandkids. I believe I can achieve that with gastric RNY. I am starting to see a counselor as well, who specializes in this area, so that I can work on changing my brain too. I feel I am at rock bottom and I really want to change. I have lost 15 lbs in the last month as I am trying to work on better choices before my surgery. I feel this is my last chance to get this area right and to be successful losing weight. I am scared to death I will mess this up and totally excited as well for this opportunity. I really think that this surgery will be a great tool to keep me on the path I want to be for my life. Today 08/22/2007 I found out I am approved for surgery and tomorrow I get to set the date for my surgery. WOOHOO
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