karma1979
I am a 28-year-old female, and I love myself some “me”. I have always been on the heavy side every since I was a child, and it was not until I turned 25-years-old that I fell in love with me. I have a daughter who will be 8-years old in March, and I have my 15-year-old sister who has been with me for five years now since our mother passed.
The reason I am getting the surgery is because almost everyone who has had health problems on both sides of my family has picked them up in their early 30’s, and where I can’t say it was all because of the weight, I know it definitely plays a big part in it. When I went to the doctor, I told him that I wanted to be smaller, but I wanted to still be in the double digits when it came to my clothes. I would like to go from a 18/20 to 20/22 to a 12/14 to 14/16, and I would be just fine.
I have been told that my target weight should be between 160lbs to 175lbs, and that would be a weight loss of 69lbs to a 84lbs weight loss, and with me being 5ft 1in, I think you would notice a 70lbs to 80lbs weight loss. I don’t have a whole lot of issues or insecurities nor do I eat when I am depressed. I have actually put on weight because I don’t eat. When I am really stressed, I can go up to 3 days without eating and on top of that I almost never eat breakfast.
My primary doctor told me that not eating is just as bad as binge eating because they both slow down your metabolisms. He said when you don’t eat your body goes into starvation mode, and then when you finally are hungry and you have that one really big meal where you eat until you get full, your body then takes most of that and store it as fat because it does not know when it will get again, and between that and an almost stopped metabolisms, that’s why I put on the weight. That’s my story and hopefully the surgery will help me because when I am stressed, having a protein shake will be enough for me.
