cocoamason
I am a 32 year old woman who has been overweight her entire life. The lowest weight I can remember being is 160 when I was in 9th grade. How fat I thought I was then. Now I would do anything to be at that weight. I always thought my family would be complete by now. Unfortunately the weight I placed on my body is one of the reason I don't have kids yet.
About 5 years ago 2 close friends of mine had the gastric bypass surgery done. The male friend was about 5'2" and weighed about 350 pounds. The female friend was about 5'8" and weighed about 300 pounds. Today they are a lot healthier and thinner. He weighs about 220 and she weighs about 180. During the first year he dropped down to about 175. Although they both put a few pounds back on their life is so much better. After watching them and looking into the surgery myself and talking to more and more people that had it done I decided to go for it.
This past year was hard. My weight was always on my mind and made be very depressed. I know I would like to try to have kids and with my husband being 5 years older than me it seem like we were running out of time. I tried so many diets over the years. All the diets did was prove that i was a failure. Not much self esteem comes from a diet. When i decided to go to the information meeting on Gastric Bypass surgery it felt like a huge weight has been lifted off of me. I knew this time I was going to do something about my weight that will change my life forever.
I am now 9 days post op. Although I am struggling a little with still wanting what i can't have, I know this was the best decision I have ever made for myself. I'm now waiting for time to go by so I can see the results of the hard work I am putting in. Time will tell. I'm looking forward to Sept 2009 to when my husband & I can start trying to have kids.
