megan B.
I'm 31 years old and as most people on this board have been losing the battle against my weight for most of my life. Looking at my childhood pictures I started gaining weight in second grade and remained the chubby kid through high school. College I stayed about the same, gained some weight but it wasn't until i was out on my own in new places that I really started to gain weight. I went from graduating college at around 200 or so pounds to weighting 311 on my surgery date. Now that did take nine years, but I certainly didn't put that all on in a short period of time a bit here and there between diets which were successful until life got in the way again.
My brother had this surgery about 5 years ago this summer. Right after his surgery I swore I would never do anything like that. It looked awful. It also was very scary to a person who never set foot in a hospital except to visit other people. I was so happy for him, but at that time no way would I be willing to do that. Years went by and I kept having a longer list of things either I couldn't or wouldn't do because of my weight while my brother was able to do more and more and seemed to be truly enjoying life like he hadn't in a long time. Because of this I met with some other friends who have had the surgery and attended some meetings. Once I decided this was the right path for me, which was in November of last year I began looking for surgeons. I found a great one about 50 minutes from me in Harrisburg. I started attending appointments in January and was very fortunate that my surgery was scheduled for June. I teach school so I wanted to have it over the summer and actually was scheduled on the first day of my vacation.
I'm out of surgery one month today and feel great. I went back to the gym today and was on the elliptical for 35 minutes and it felt great. I haven't been tired all day and am very pleased. I have lost 28 lbs in a month and am hoping and striving to continue to be successful.
