taw18220
I'm Tracey and I've been overweight for more than 20 years, which is still most of my life. Ok about half now. I've fought many battles with my weight, physical, mental, emotional, and social pretty much on a daily basis so it was easy for me to spend most of my 20 somethings away from everyone and in my world. My world consisted of a local college, a degree plan and books.
Then one day, I finished my degree, and I turned 30. My career took off, but now that I had a lot of time to do whatever I wanted, I realized I had no one to spend that time with. My friends were married and had their children, no special someone, etc.
So I decided to look for Mr. Right and was extremely UNsuccessful and discovered more about myself and how our superficial world thinks. So I changed careers and took my skills into consulting where I could travel and explore new places and be occupied all the time with no worries about being lonely. One day while working in Puerto Rico my vision began to fail and I was drinking more than two liters of water a day and WOW I was loosing weight. (There must be something to this drinking water and loosing weight!) So I stayed home one week and visited the eye doctor who told me there was nothing wrong with my eyes and asked me if I had been tested for diabetes. I laughed him off, but went and had my blood sugar tested and found it at a screaming 384 fasting. It was the hardest moment to swallow in my life at that time and it took me more than a week (while trying to start a insulin regimen) to accept.
I spent the next several months struggling with diabetes, had visited Dr. Robert Davis to begin exploring surgery, and found out that the corporate world is just as superficial as the rest. I changed jobs and continued fighting my diabetes.
Almost a year to the date of diagnosis, I visited Dr. Davis again, ready to push forward with surgery and he was behind me 100% and the ball began to roll. My new employer has been supportive of my efforts all the way. And then I had surgery. I had a few regrets in the beginning but that was because it was painful, but slowly things got better. I had further complications with my diabetes, but only for about four weeks, and then suddenly, my blood sugar levels have normalled out with meds but my energy level has been through the roof. I feel like the old me before ever getting sick.
Now I'm at the gym four days a week and fixing up my home so it feels good. Was it worth it, I think so.
