Sweet_Tee
My Father died of a heart attack at age 48. I know he was 6;3" but I don't know what he weighed. He was, without a doubt, obese.
I am 56 (as of 10-8) and I had my RNY 10-16. When I got married (some 18 years ago) I weighed around 160 pounds. About July 2005, I allowed myself to be weighed for the first time in probably 10 years. At that time I weighed 367. I was perhaps 50 pounds heavier than my highest estimate at the time. I was so shocked and ashamed. That is when I began to really look hard at weight loss surgery. When I checked with the insurance company, they notified me that WLS was specifically excluded from my policy. If I was going to do it; I was going to have to pay for it. Ugh!
The last time I weighed at my surgeons office (a week before surgery,) I weighed 373. On surgery day, I weighed 370. At my 2-week checkup I weighed 353. Since then I have been weighing on a scale at home. I am not thoroughly convinced that the weights I have gotten on that scale are good, though, because I can't really balance myself easily. The balance beam hits waist height; and I carry an awful lot of my weight around the middle. When I weigh, then, I have to move my body in unnatural ways to actually get the beam to be free of interference. This Friday, I will weigh again at my surgeon's office. Then I will know what my true current weight loss is.
The reason I am telling you all of this is that I have been very "shamed" by my weight--particularly over the last few years. I would not even let my husband or my family know what I weighed. I have become particularly adept at "not seeing" my weight when I am grooming; and I don't really look in the mirror otherwise. I, for one, am not in any position to make any judgements about anybody else's weight.
