Pattywattywu
I am 49 years old and ready for a serious life change. I have been overweight for many years, but did not diet much. I love food and use it for every reason except good health. I have def been on a bad trajectory for years. All the women in my family have always been overweight - so it was just "what it was". I was not happy with myself at all - but have never been able to sustain healthy eating. For the last few years I have been daydreaming about being "fit by 50" - but making no plans to really make it happen. In 2014 my 54 year old sister went into the hospital for pneumonia and later had to be taken off of a ventilator to die in peace. 2 months later my mother had to be placed in hospice after going totally down hill because of losing her oldest daughter. She died 6 days later. Neither of them were really that sick, but their weight did not help their situations at all. I realized that I cannot do this to myself anymore. I am the only sister left for my three brothers and I am the mother to a 19 year old son. I have to take my life back. I talked to my doctor about WLS in August and have been doing everything possible to get Sleeved by January. I have already met with my surgeon and his staff and have started stashing the necessary items for the pre-surgery diet and post-surgery diet. Whatever this journey has for me - it has to be better than what I have done for myself up to this point. I am so excited and ready to get going.
