menschboy
I don't even know how to begin writing to all of you, but I know that I need to write about this journey and share it with people who truly understand what I have gone through carrying all this weight around. I also think it's great therapy to journal, and I feel like if you all are reading, that I have some people on my side and encouraging my on this journey, even if I don't know you...yet.
This is the end of an exhaustive 13 year battle with myself and my weight. I am 33 years old, and at my heaviest in November 2010, I weighed 433 lbs. I am 6 ft 4.5 inches tall. Even at this height, Beloved, that's a lot of weight.
Like most of you, I have spent a fortune in money, time, frustration, and tears of the years battling my weight. I have known about WLS for 12 years, and had met with a surgeon 3 years ago when I moved to Seattle, WA. But it wasn't the time.
Without going too far into my "head", I will tell you this. Now is the time. I am ready, honestly, because I sick and damn tired of being fat! I am sick of buying First Class plane tickets or 2 seats when I fly. I am sick of not being able to catch the sales at my favorite stores. I am sick of feeling bad about myself. I am just sick of being sick about this whole issue. Enough is enough.
So, in December, I went on a self-imposed diet and lost 30 lbs. I then called up my surgeon, Dr. Myur Srikanth, and went back to see him 3 years after my initial consultation. Oddly, he knew exactly who I was (even remembered my exact profession, as well as the names of family members...btw...that's impressive..). I was set on the band. He was thinking the sleeve. He, as normal, didn't push, but did the "Srikanth" thing, which is asking me questions and meticulously documenting and researching my history, and showing me his program. He is still as strict as he was 3 years ago.
So, WLS brothers and sisters, I have 5 more months to go, bless our friends at Cigna for their supervised diet waiting period, and I'm in. I want VSG, and am evening entertaining the idea of DS. This is a lifestyle change. I am gonna have to find something else to be sick of now, because, I am about to kick this thing.
