Julie Kirby
My story begins after I got pregant with my first child. I was 145 lbs when I got pregnat and after I had my son I weighed 210 lbs. It was really hard for me to lose it. Then a year and a half later I had my daughter. With her I only gained about 20 -25 lbs. I still couldn't lose it. I did like everyone else started a diet lost a little and quit. Then tried again and the same thing would happen. This has been going on for 15 years.
In 1999 I found out that my thyroid was not working properly, so I got put on meds for that. Well that really didn't help anything at all. In 2002 I had my thyroid removed and still taking meds for rest of life. My weight would go up and down. Even harder to lose weight without a thyroid. Just started to except the fact that I would be big.
Being a spouse in the military and in the states it was very hard to get qualified for WLS. At that time I had no HIgh blood pressure or Sleep apena. Got to Germany in 2006 was here a year and found out that they would do it over here. It was so much easier trying over here. Also I was diagonised with sleep apena and hypertension this year (2007). I am at my highest weight of 250 lbs. I am 5FT 8 in and I am so tired of people saying you don't look that big you shouldn't have it done. They are not me they do not know how I feel about myself and how it effects the way I act and treat others.
So I am redy for the change in all areas of my life!!!!!!!!! My new life starts Jan. 9, 2008!!!!!!!
