gentoe
Well I have been overweight for the majority of my life. I was able to lose a good amount of weight and I joined the Army. During my time in the military I was able to maintain my weight but still struggle on a daily baises with my weight. I went through hell from everyone that out ranked me by all sorts of name calling and ofcourse the great diet tips from the military. Starve your self... I was deployed in 2003 in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom. During my time in Iraq, the unit I was with went through several different fire fights and mortar attacks. During my deployment my (exwife) wife at the time thought it was time to have a live in boyfriend in my house. Once I was able to come back from the war, I was in a terrible mental state. I was divorced with in three weeks of returning and out on my terminal leave living at my parents house with in a month after that. I spent the next year on my folks couch, only leaving it to eat and to sleep. I think that during that two year span my life hit a all time low. All I could do is consume my self in food. I was terrified to go out and be around people, my self esteem was shattered from my ex wife. Food was my new love. It was a matter of months I went from 300 when I returned to 400+ now. Finally I woke up one day and relised something is wrong. I went and got help from the VA. And I was put on a regime of meds. I was able to meet a great friend at church and from him I was introduced to my career. Life was starting to get better. I then started to loose some weight, I was able to be down to around 380. The only thing I desired is to have some one that loved me for me. For all my weaknesses and strengths. The day finally happened when I was able to meet my true love. After 6 months of dating me and my love were finally married. I love her more everyday. Together we have been fighting the battle of the buldge. The more I diet the more I fail. We have been blessed that we now are expecting our first baby in Feb. I don't want to be the big dad. After several and several failed attempts on dieting my wife and I talked about WLS. My wife is so supportive of me gaining this tool to help fight my battle. I contacted my insurance and they gave me a list of recomended places to have the surgry. Of course the closest one is 3 hours away from home. I finally have my approval from my insurance and I should have my DOS date this week. I am so excited. I need to get out of the limbo funk, awaiting my insurance approval. Today is the first day of the rest of my life.
