Where do I begin?  I was always a very tiny girl and a very slim teenager.  I never battled with my weight until after I had my first child.  Well, three kids later I'm losing the battle of the bulge!  While pregnant, I always gained exactly what I was supposed to...only to gain from 10-20 pounds AFTER my babies were born.  I've been on more diets than I care to remember and really I have only ever lost any fair amount of weight by starvation.  As I have gotten older, the starvation diets don't seem to work so great anymore.   

I started looking into WLS the beginning of 2007.  I do not take the idea of WLS lightly.  I know that it will be a life altering endeavor and I'm trying my hardest to get myself mentally prepared for this.  I was originally looking to have the Lap Band surgery, but as I have been researching, I am now really leaning at having the VSG surgery.  I think this surgery will work better for my life.  I'm just really trying to make sure that I am making the right decision.  I am a lower BMI patient and, at the moment, don't have any co-morbidities.  I think some would look at me and wonder why I even want to have WLS.  Well, I know my life and I know that I will only continue to get larger and unhealthier.  I come from a long line of obese people and I am the smallest in my family, and this weighs heavily on my mind.  I can get surgery soon and start to live a healthier life, or I can continue to gain 10+ pounds a year until I am dealing with health issues that I don't care to live with.

I'm ready to feel good about myself.  I'm ready to have fun in life again!!  :)
 

About Me
Rio Rancho, NM
Location
22.9
BMI
VSG
Surgery
04/04/2008
Surgery Date
Jul 29, 2007
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