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Jun 14, 2010

 Hi, my name is Nita. So I’ve decided to have surgery! Yay!

I wasn’t a fat kid, but I started getting fat when I was a teenager. My mom started working, so she wasn’t there anymore to tell me to “Go outside and play!” I’d come home from school and scarf down a big bag of potato chips, or a bowl of ice cream (or both!), or make some instant mashed potatoes. By the time  I was 19 I weighed about 180. I went to one of those weight loss clinics where they inject you with pregnant lady urine. Eeuuw, yuck! I don’t know what good that was supposed to do, but the 500 calorie a day diet they put me on, and having to go in to get weighed daily, had me back to about 145 in no time. Of course, I didn’t stick to the 500 calorie diet, and I gained it all back pretty quick, too. So that’s been the pattern for about 30 years now, lose, gain, lose, gain. And every time I gained, it was more than I had lost! I finally decided if I didn’t cut it out I’d weigh 500 lbs. in a few years. So I quit dieting. And now I weigh 280.

My husband thinks I should just eat less, and everything will be fine. As he sucks on his cigarette. Grrrrr. I quit smoking 12 years ago, cold turkey. Unfortunately, you can’t just quit eating cold turkey. Anyway, he’s not real supportive, but he has been willing to take time off work to drive me to appointments. I have Kaiser Insurance, and need to go to the Fremont bariatric center, about an hour away from my home in Stockton, CA. I have anxiety attacks when I have to drive on the freeway, which is a real pain in the ass. So as long as my husband is willing to take me, I guess that’s support enough!

I went to my big Bariatric Info meeting yesterday in Fremont, and have my consult appointment with Dr. Chu on July 2, 2010. I knew from reading about it on OH that I’d need to cut out caffeine and carbonation, and lose about 10%, so I cut out the diet Pepsi, the ice cream, etc., and have lost 7 pounds so far. I gotta start walking! Ooooh, my aching legs!

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