ruby8157
I have been thinking about what to write now for weeks, ever since I took that first step towards having WLS. Now that I have made that first step it's time to get it down on paper and make it a reality.
I do not have a date set yet, but I am hoping for early January 2014. I have had all the lab work, an EKG, Endoscopy and next week I have my psych evaluation. I have seen the nutritionist and exercise counselor and am on a 3 month supervised "diet" required by my doctor. So far I've lost 6lbs putting me at 293 from my highest weight EVER of 299. I would like to get to 280 or 275 by the time I have the surgery.
I was not a fat kid. I was normal, even skinny until junior high when I thought I was fat at 123lbs. During high school I stayed around 130-135 and even into college. Right before my senior year of college I got up to 165lbs at 5'6 and thought I was obese. My best friend and I went on a speed diet that summer and I got down to a size 4 - 120lbs! This was the beginning of a lifetime of yo-yo dieting. After college I gradually gained weight and hovered around 140-150. At age 30 I broke up with a long time boyfriend, moved out on my own and ate my way to 195lbs. My new boyfriend then cheated on me and I used food for comfort and ballooned up to 276. Enter phen-fen craze which allowed me to lose 100lbs but then I gained most of that back and was very fat again . On my 40th birthday I decided to do something about it and wanted to meet someone, get married and started the Atkins diet. Lost 115lbs and was in a size 12 for about 2 weeks, at 165lbs I met my husband. After marriage I gradually gained some weight and then went into the hospital with what I thought was a UTI. My weight was 186lbs. Turns out I also had kidney stones, and a spleen the size of a football. Diagnosis was Sarcoidosis. Treatment was having my spleen removed and starting on an 8 year odyssey of PREDNISONE. Over the next eight years thanks to steroids and the craving for lots of food and sugar that it gives you I gradually creeped up and up the scale until I got to where I'm at today. I also had terrible osteoarthritis and had both knees replaced this year. NOW I KNOW I have to lose this weight to save not only my new knees but my life.
I worked for an airline for 28 years and took early retirement, then got sick, also diagnosed with fibromyalgia and with a BMI of 49 I applied for and was approved for disability. My husband and I can fly FREE coach almost anywhere but I haven't been on an airplane in over a year because I am too embarrassed to ask for a seat belt extender and too fat to travel and have a good time. My goal is to be normal weight - (around 145) and travel with my husband to all the places we've been wanting to go. My hope is that by next year at t his time we will be somewhere in Europe having the time of our lives!
