Hi, Newbie here

Hi,

My name is Kryss. I am a 40 mom to a beautiful 8 year old daughter. I am currently 263 lbs (down from 276 pre-options classes at Kaiser)  

I have been a big girl for most of my life. In HS I was a size 12-14 depending on clothing while the other girls we size 6 & 8.  A very hard difficult road tro be down.  I know I was not the biggest girl in school, but the taunts and teasing and brattiness of other kids made me feel bad about myself long into my 20's

When I got married at 22 I was a size 20 and it just went up from there. My highest weight was 278 when I was pregnant with my daughter, but I got close to it again this year at 276.  I am done!!!!

I comepleted the Options classes at Kaiser and am meeting my surgeon next week. I am very excited to take the next step and regain my life. 

I have a realistic goal of 165 and hope to get there! if I lose more than that YAY me! 

I have chosen the RNY due to being a diabetic and I want that in remission! 

YAY me!

 

Best of luck in your surgery. 165 is VERY realistic!
It's close to my goal too.
Amalia

congrats on your decision. good luck with everything. this is an amazing journey! 

kryss7 i know where u are coming from i been a big girl all my life and just imange having a skinny mom and a skinny sister. ppl pick on me throughout school. with the name calling and noise making. when i got older and start having babies the weight did not go down it went up and up and up. it seem as if it did not want to stop i am currently 398pounds and i am having a RNY due to the fact that i dnt want anything in my body that will get rejected. i dnt have a ideal goal weight i jyst want to be far away from 300 as possible. so keep up the good work and good luck on everything you do

Congrats and welcome :)

 It's been a couple of weeks since your post. I hope things are moving right along for you. The biggest part for me was making that decision to have WLS.

Welcome to the group Kryss, life has been keeping me from responding to posts.  I am back keeping up as I can.  Looking forward to reading more posts of your journey.  This is quite an adventure. 

I had RNY 2 years ago, also hoping to put diabetes into remission, along with several other health problems.  I am happy to report that I took my last insulin injection the day before surgery.  I still have diabetes, but had had it for several years before seeking wls.  I am controlling my blood sugar with pills, nutrition and exercise.  Yayyy wls.  I am controlling is, not letting diabetes controll me!