thick_chick
Where do I begin?
I will start my journey about 2 year ago, it was during my annual physical when I mention to my doctor that I had been going to the gym religious and eating what I thought was healthy, however the weight was not coming off as I would have liked. My doctor whom I am very pleased with asked..."Have you ever considered weight loss surgery?" He must have seen the shock on my face because he went on delicately to say that if I did not get the weight under control sooner or later problems associated with being over weight would surface. Being what I consider a decent looking black woman and from a culture where a little meat on the bones was not sure a bad thing, I walked out the office with my feather a little ruffled but with the intent on working a little harder, I would show improvement at my next visit.
A year later I was in the office again for my annual physical and I discovered that I had high blood pressure. I cried like a baby as my doctor wrote out my new prescription. I felt as if the chickens had come home to roost. My doctor was to kind to add insult to injury because he did not bring up the subject of weight. However in the back of my mind I reflected on the conversation from the previous year.
Fast forward to March 2010 at this visit although I have not lost any significant weight, I was proud to inform my doctor that I was three months in on being an ex smoker. "Great and what about your weight? Have you thought any further about weight lost surgery?" Why did he have to bring up the Big W subject? I wanted to lay an egg. He suggested that I just attend an informative class to explore my options. What harm would it do? I could find out that WLS was chickens#*t.... So I had better get it together! Or at the very least I could discover that WLS if used properly was a tool (not a miracle cure) that could help me to achieve my goal.
