Silkie
Here it is 11/29/06 and I have my 34th birthday next month. I have always been fat and have absolutely no clue what it would be like to not be fat. I kind of started this journey about this time last year. I started doing research on surgeries, surgeons, and my insurance. Found out my insurance did cover obesity surgery and decided to choose Dr. Jeffery Hunter in Federal Way. I made an appointment and saw Kat Redmond on January 6, 2006. I was interested in the surgery but it turned out I had a long journey a head of me.
I needed to go through a 6 month medically supervised diet and it seemed no one knew what I should be doing. I basically gave up hope and gorged myself some more. I was up to 309 before I decided to go to "Weight Loss for Life" using the HMR products at Southwest Washington Medical Center. At that time I figured if I can do it with a diet then I wouldn't need the surgery anyways. July 31st was my first night of class.
Since then I have lost weight on the diet and gained weight due to lack of control and going "Out of the Box". It is a great diet and they have a really good plan for losing weight and transitioning back to real food. My problem is that I never feel hungry and I never feel full. I eat to eat. Most of the time, if food is not near me, I will space out on even eating. My husband will tell me I am shaking and need to eat. Another thing is that I don't feel full unless I am stuffed. Even then I will continue to eat as long as the food is there. There has even been times I have eaten until I threw up and then say to myself, well there is no food in my stomach now so I need to eat.
Dr. Bradley and Anne the Dietician both think it is a good idea for me to look into the surgery to help with the fullness and limit what I can eat. Also give me a chance to retrain myself and my body. So that is exactly what I decided to do.
This time I have decided that I want to do it close to home and I have heard a lot of good things about Dr. Cagle and Dr. Dally so I am making an appointment with them. The first time I called the lady said I needed to get the psychological testing done before I could even make and appointment so I had that done this past monday and go back for the results next week. I called today to schedule an appointment and talked to someone that sounded a bit more knowledgable and she said there is a packet for me to fill out and she would get it into the mail for me.
So here the journey begins once again...
As for other aspects of my life, I am a wife and a mom to 2 beautiful dogs. Dot is our Daschaund and Pixel is our Corgi. They are spoiled rotten. I love games even though I never really get to play and I love crime stuff. I am a Business Application Programmer and enjoy my job for the most part. I am a very happy person though I tend to suffer from depression and anxiety a bit too much. I am social but a loner. I am not looking for a miracle in life, just new tools to help me help myself.
