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My story. Born in England to a young single mother who gave me up for adoption to friends of the family. Age 0-7 I lived a life of happiness. At the age of 7 I was taken to the United States by a mother I didnt know into a country that wasnt mine. I learned to be American and learned that many of my new family had many problems. Growing up in a house of disfunction I turned to food. It gave me love & comfort. When i went to a Florida elementary school, i realized the gift of good Southern Food. Brit's are notorious for serving bland food, no spices, boiled or baked to shoe leather and served with just as bland basics of boiled veggies. This may not be true for all Brits, but for my mother that was her curse. Bad cooking. I learned to cook, loved food even more and it became a part of me.
I joked with my Dr. at one of my first appointments. He asked when my weight started to get out of control, i said "after the birth of my son"... he said oh how old is your baby. I said 23. We both laughed. From the point of learning bad food habits at birth, and where family physical activity consisted of running to get away from each other. I had a bit of a bad start.
I have been married to a wonderful man 25 years this year. He says he loves me no matter my size, but at a 22. Im ready for him to love a bit less of me. After all my tests and visits and screens and scans and prods and pokes over all my pre-approvals, i was happy to find out that 43 years of being bad to my body so far has not caused any significant issues. My worry was how long till this excess weight would start too.
May 2010 I started my journey with my first visit to Celebration Bariatric Center Hospital in Celebration Florida. 6 mo of monitoring by my Dr, along with 6 mo of nutritional counceling and a Psyche visit got me to the first hurdle. Approval. i was lucky that it took only 4 days. Then off to the medical approvals. Cardiologist, EKG, Chest XRay, Pulmonology test and blood work. Phase I Low Carb diet started then. I received my surgery date last week and started a 2 week liquid only diet today 1/12/2011. Surgery is 1/28/2011.
Let the journey continue....
