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My name is Jaime and I have never been skinny. I have always had a warped sense of myself. I always thought that I was heavy. In high school, I was 6 feet tall and weighed about 170. I wore a size 13 and thought that I was fat. I was not that typical 5 foot 100 lb. teen, so I felt out of place. Now that I look back on it, I wish that I was close to that size now. Now I know that it was just me and my insecurities. I am not that average person who slowly gained weight during pregnancy and could not get it off. I actually gained 28 lbs. with my first child and had lost it all plus 10 lbs. by the time of my 8 week followup. With my second child, I only gained 15 lbs. and had lost it by the time that I left the hospital. My youngest is 4 years old, and over that 4 years after giving birth, I have gained about 50 lbs. I am insulin resistant, and have been told that I will have a very hard time losing weight on my own. I have tried all the "diets" and been to a nutritionist. I will lose 3 lbs. and gain 5, or lose 5 and gain 7. I am not diabetic yet, but could be if things are not corrected now. Other than that, my cholesterol is high and I have joint and back pain. I have a 5 year old daughter and a 4 year old son, who need me to be able to run and play with them, and I have not been doing that. I want to feel more comfortable in my skin and to be happy again.
So I began the long journey of looking for a surgeon. My friend Brook and I have been kind of doing this together and we found Dr. Machado, who from the time we met her, we were very comfortable with. She really seems to know her stuff. She has had very good results and just seems like a normal person and not somebody who treats you like you are beneath them. Brook and I work together, so we could not take the time off together, so she had her surgery in January and I am planning to have mine done in early March. I have had most of my pre-op stuff done. I see the nutritionist on Jan. 24 and then I will schedule my Psych exam and I will be ready for Dr. Machados office to submit for approval. I am starting to get jittery and I have not even scheduled my surgery yet. I am looking forward to it, but am scared because there is always that "what if".
