jedi3884
Hi there my names is James. I am 39 years old and finally want to get my life back on track. As a child I was very active playing sports like soccer which I played for 14 yrs, also baseball,and other physical activities. I was what I would say is husky as a child, but because I was active I was healthy. As I grew up into my teen years I started to gain weight and have been struggling with the roller coaster ride of weight loss and regain. In January 2004 my father had passed away and I had a surge of trying to loose weight yet again I was able to loose about 65 lbs. But after a while I put that weight back on plus some. Like many people overweight emotions sometimes plays a role good or bad with gaining and loosing weight. At my heaviest weight I was 460 lbs which reached its peak by end of 2007. I was ready to look into surgical options and I thought I had picked a surgeon that was right for me, but his staff was very unfriendly and not motivated to assist me in anyway trying to get my insurance to cover the surgery. So I tried yet again to loose weight and was actually doing okay for a bit and actually lost about 160 lbs by the end of 2008 doing wieght watchers, and lots of gym and arobic time. Since then I have put 50 pounds or so back on. Then this past August I started looking at having the Bipass surgery, and the one guy I went to the seminar in september of a surgeon in northern NJ named Dr. Goyal. He and his staff have been a gift from God. Dr. Goyal has been very informative answering anything I ask as well as his entire team from office personnel, nutritionists and fellow surgeons. I finally have a surgery date of April 5th, 2010 and as I write and currently about 340lbs. So April 5th is the 1st day of my new life with new challenges and new possibilities. I have been blessed the past year and a half from finding a great surgeon, but mst of all I must thank also my girlfriend Cheryl, who has been a tremendous support to me. She has brought joy into mylife when I was not so sure my life was worth a whole lot. Because of her, my friends, Dr. Goyal I know my life is priceless and I look forward to what April 5th will bring.
