mindyleespeas
My story is like most others I have come across ..... I was an emotionally screwed up child, but I was super outgoing and had a lot of great friends, we moved a lot so I had friends from one side of the country to the other. I got involved with a man 6 years older than me when I was 15 and we were together for 11 years. I began gaining weight when I was about 17 I am pretty sure it was the Birth control and the anti depressants I was taking that triggered it. We had our first child when I was 21 and divorced when I was 23. I don't know if I was ever really happy with him but we get along much better now that we are not together. I met my second child's father when i was 24 and we are still together. My second child is almost three years old. I gained a lot of weight with my pregnancy's and never really lost it no matter what I tried to do. See I am really no good with the whole sticking to a diet thing.
My Mom had WLS in December 2003. Dr. Ali at UC Davis did her surgery and will be doing mine next week, how cool is that? I have been really researching this whole deal for myself for about 2 years. I didn't actually start the whole process though until May of this year. My PCP is awesome but did not really want to send my referral... he said i didn't really need to go this route. He sent my referral anyway and after the past few months of getting all the appointments and tests done, here I am one week to the day of doing the dam thing and I feel like it has flown by :)
