conbear
Started gaining weight at 8 yrs old & just excalated from there. Up & down for most of my life .Diet after diet. Lose & gain. At 53 yrs old I knew I'd better do something or I'd be dead in five years. I had been researching weight loss surgery for at least 10 yrs---but back then no one would even talk to you if you had HMO insurance. Well I now have Kaiser insurance & said to my Doctor during a physical exam that I wanted the surgery & he said based on your BMI alone (which was 52 at the time) I would qualify. So he put a referral through & within a couple months I was starting the classes required to have the surgery. That was Nov 2008 & I had my surgery on 07-07-09. I started losing weight before the surgery. I had lost 55 pds prior to surgey & now 8 months since surgey I've lost 103 pds. So total I've lost 143 pds since Jan 2008. I have 32 more pds to go to reach my goal of 130 lbs. I'm excited about the things I now can do. The clothes---activities, energy, etc. It really feels good to "Feel Good". I look forward to living a good long healthy life as long as the Lord will have me here.
