Long story short, I have been a Weight Watcher on and off since 1973.  I have had a lot of success with Weight Watchers over the years, including losing 88 lbs. and reaching goal weight in 1980, but have always had problems with maintenance due to emotional eating.  I always regain and regain more than I started with.  I have lost and regained large amounts of weight many times over.  After marriage and children, stress with a sick husband and becoming widowed at age 46 I just ate my feelings and continued to gain weight.  After all these years I have lost confidence in my ability to lose weight and keep it off the "natural" way - I feel like I need a physical reminder to stop or never start to eat the wrong foods.  I believe gastric bypass is the answer for me.

Now in my 50's I am becoming more and more immobile and less able to take care of myself and my home.  I've had severe arthritis in my knees for about 20 years now and that has impacted my ability to walk and move like I should.  I  am looking forward to getting weight off so I can move around better and do things for myself.   My daughters will both be off to college in August 2009 and I need to be independent and start enjoying life again.  I may still need knee replacement surgery, but I am ready for that too when I get enough weight off to be a candidate for that.

I taught for 27 years before taking retirement so I have a teacher's pension but it's not much.  I want to be healthy and energetic enough to get a job to supplement my retirement income and get out of the  house!  I have great hopes for myself with the help of this surgery coming up Dec. 19 and hope and pray it is the right step. 

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47.1
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RNY
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12/19/2008
Surgery Date
Dec 04, 2008
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