Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.
I was the fat kid from preschool on till I was 33 years old. I was miserable hated how I looked, how people looked at me so many of the things that each and everyone of us has dealt with. I had zero self esteem left and was at my heaviest known weight(meaning on a scale that could actually measure my weight we all know many scales dont go that high) i was 407lbs. I was on 2 blood pressure meds, had sleep apnea and borderline diabetic and the worst was I caught myself asking my kids to do simple things I should have been doing because I was to fat and miserable to want to get my ass off the couch and do myself. I hated myself for getting to that point and knew that while WLS surgery can be very dangerous that I had one choice have my kids continue watching me kill myself with food or take the chance on surgery and saving my life. It is a choice I will NEVER regret. I am currently coming up on my 4 year anniversary and have been stable in the 170 lb range for almost 3 of those years. I came close to my personal goal of 200 lbs in that first year and while yes still considered overweight was so far from the 407 lbs I was that I never truly expected to meet it. Well I did and have exceeded it to reach my current weight. Yes I still battle those demons from my past of emotional eating and well wanting fast food and sugars and all that yummy stuff but for whatever reason God has blessed me with continued good restriction and I come here to get a kick in the butt from my friends when I feel myself getting to far off track.
What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?
To me the worst thing about being overweight was the limitations on what I could do with my kids as a single mom I was all they had to count on and I was simply too fat to care for them like I needed to be able to do.
If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?
I love the fact that I can spend the day chasing after my 2 active teenagers and living life in so many ways that I never truly realized I was missing from actually finding and being in a stable relationship that doesnt care if I have the excess skin or if I gain a little back or what something I never felt that I had when I was large I love the fact that people actually see me and take the time to know me before judging the kind of person I was. To so many people we are the invisible fat people they have to deal with but never really see for who they are not how much they weigh.
MommaHen
