subacloud
I have been overweight all my life, but as an adult, I became obese, then morbidly obese. I do not feel my outside reflects who I am as a person. Being overweight has restrained me from completely fulfilling my dreams. That stops now.
It took me a long time and numerous diet failures to come to the decision to have weight loss surgery. Now that I have decided to have this procedure, I feel a quiet confidence that I can achieve the weight loss I so desire. Moreover, I believe it will finally be possible to maintain it.
I'm a wife, a mom of two boys, and a cancer survivor. Having faced down breast cancer, I feel empowered and ready to live my life looking as good as I feel. With a mutation on the BRCA2 (breast cancer/ovarian cancer) gene, I know that I will spend the rest of my life fighting cancer. My WLS is part of that fight. Right now, I am ahead with a good game plan for keeping myself healthy and cancer free.
I am enjoying growing smaller. I am avoiding negative people who neither understand my battle, nor my pain. I am glad to find this community where sharing my weight does not raise eyebrows (or if it does, I can't see it) and my experiences are familiar. Thanks for joining me on this journey. My best wishes to you as you become your true, authentic self. That's what I'm working on.
