hanslori
The basic version is that I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I mean as a adolescent I really wasn't that bad, but my father thought so, so from age 5 on he was controlling what I ate and sticking me on crazy diets. It really never let me figure out what healthy eating was, and I am genetically/socially prediposed to being heavier. A lot of my family is on the heavier side. At college my own battle began which actually leveled out really nicely, until I started dating my current husband. He is a big eater and not very health conscious, so we led each other into some pretty bad eating habits. Combine that with the death of both my parents in a motorcycle accident in 1994, finishing college, and getting married, and a very addictive nature, what do you get? A severely overweight, depressed individual, with lots of stress eating. I'm not painting a pretty picture am I? I must admit as well, that there was probably some "I told you so" eating with anger due to my fathers death and how controlling he'd been about the weight. I gained over 100 pounds in less than a year, plus a few more over the next 10 years. In my struggle to lose weight and yo - yo ing. Truthfully it wasn't until 5 years ago that something actually worked, and it was diet and exercise. The catch I had to to have the colostomy reversal, which Dr. Schirmer did. The good news was that I lost what he asked and a whole lot more. 90 lbs total. I went to Curves for 2 years faithfully and felt like a different person. Then some changes happened, we moved, no more Curves, I had to quit my job I loved, and we started fostering children. Not a way to stay away from STRESS. Unfortunately I gained all of the weight back and redeveloped an abdominal hernia. That was a year ago + , now I've been trying to get the weight down for surgery, which I did (yeah me) 40 lbs. I actually lost 50 and then insurance shafted me and 10 came back which I'm trying to get rid of now. Basically I couldn't get the hernia repair without plastic surgery or WLS. My first insurance company wouldn't cover the WLS, but were open to the abdominoplasty. So I lost the weight and went in to get that straight. However, during that time my insurance changed. This insurance denied the excess skin removal, but the book is very clear in that they have to cover the WLS. Basically one wild roller coaster ride, and I'm hoping I'm on the downhill slope. I go for my evaluation tomorrow 12/4 and see what's next.
