ocean4dlm
I am a sixty year old divorced mother of two wonderful daughters (26 & 28) and a sweet yellow lab named Sadie. I was an overweight elementary school student, an obese teenager, and was morbidly obese from then on, with the exception of three weight losses of 100 + pounds, followed by immediate regain.
In November of 2014, I was close to 300 pounds. I had given up weighing myself, so I'm not sure how high I had gotten. (My all time high was 345 in 2007, when I left a miserable 27 year marriage.) My significant other went into cardiac arrest in bed. Because of my size and poor physical condition, I had a difficult time pulling him out of bed and performing CPR. I had to postpone a total knee replacement to care for him. As I ate my way through the holiday season, I took another hard look at what I had done to myself. Something had to give.
I realized I could lose weight, but I was unable to keep it off. I began to research the VSG, but wasn't able to get an initial appointment until early February 2015. I told the office that I wanted to begin the weight loss process and asked if my PCP could weigh me and use that number as my official starting weight, and they agreed. January 7, 2015, I weighed in at 271. I began a lean and green diet, and worked to detox from sugar. When I had my initial visit with the surgeon, I was already half way to my required 10% weight loss. I was "fast tracked" because of this and all of the research I had done to get my head in the game.
I received approval and was scheduled for a 05/27/15 VSG. My doctor did not require a two week liquid diet, just the 24 hour prior to surgery. I did two weeks of 2-3 protein shakes and a lean and green dinner a day on my own. I lost a total of 53 pounds pre-surgery.
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About Me
Before & After
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