Johnna1
My story, wow lets see.... I was a chubby child and grew into a fat adult. I had a few good (thin) years in my teens and then in my young adult life, but two babies put the weight back on me (not to mention enough carbs to feed a horse). Anyway, I have battled this all of my life and lost many, many times only to gain it all and more back again. I was pretty active most of the time and felt good until I hit my 40's and things started falling apart. I developed sleep apnea, arthritis and joint issues that required a knee surgery and shoulder surgery. On July 13, 2007 (Friday the 13th) I married the love of my life. The year before the wedding I worked hard to lose about 75 lbs and had already successfully kept off 30 lbs from the year before (thanks to weight watchers). So, from 2005-2007 I had taken 100 lbs off. Still I was above 200 (228) with more to go. I felt great at the wedding, it was a fairytale ceremony outside in the park with a white picket trellis and horse and carriage that brought us to the patio where we became husband and wife. The dress was beautiful and I had never felt like a princess before in my life until that day. One little boy who was with his mother at the service said to her, "Mommy, is she a princess?". Isn't that adorable? Well, I felt that way and it was magic. I had exercised so much in that year and we took dance lessons so, each time my shoulder hurt I was afraid that something was up with it. Sure enough after the wedding when I went to the doctor I found out that it was a torn rotator cuff. Vicodin was not helping anymore so, I scheduled the surgery. OH MY GOD!!! That is so painful to recover from and it was a long ordeal. That was October 2007 and I put every bit of weight back on from then until July of this year when I went to see my WLS surgeon. She told me that she would change my life!! I really wanted to get the weight back off and was feeling horrible all the time but, I am a chocoholic and food is my comfort. I was afraid to start back on that journey again. The journey that I have made so many times before unsuccessfully. Actually, you could say I have been successful each time I've gone on a "diet" and lost weight. I've just never made it to my goal and I have fallen off that carb-ridden horse so many damn times that I think at my age, it was finally starting to really hurt me. So, July 24, 2008 I went in for RNY and I will not look back. This time I know I will be able to make it because I have a weight loss tool like I've never had before. With the help of my loving and supportive family and all of the great people here on the OH forum I will continue to be inspire, intrigue, informed and uncarbed!!! My name is Johnna and I am a carb-a-holic.
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Before & After
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