Starting point

Nov 18, 2014

Well this is the beginning. The first steps towards my journey and life changes I'll experience once I receive bariatric surgery on Dec 3rd 2014. Its been a long time coming, I've been trying to get the surgery since 2000 but have be told I was too health. Insurances floated with the concept that my health would decline, I'd loose my job and coverage and no longer be their problem. I suppose such a hateful attitude did in fact pay off.

My health did in fact, steadily decline as controlling my weight became more of an issue. I did eventually loose my ability to function in my profession and lost my healthcare coverage. Things only got worse from there, I'm afraid.

Fast forward to today, things are decent. My health is still a desperate mess but nothing as bad as before. And now a new lease on life, another chance! I cant even begin to find the words. It wouldn't be as effective if my "eating" buddy didn't also have the same surgery, which he did, Oct 30, 2014. He has been doing phenominally well!!! His back pain is gone, his diabetes is improving everyday and he has more energy and no need for his CPAP anymore. And thats just in the first two weeks! Just imagine where he is headed!

When we met 17 years ago and he learned that I only ate once a day and went to the gym 5 days a week, he though I was starving myself. At the time I was still considered obese at 6'1 and 280lbs. I wore a size 12 on top and an 18-20 on the bottom. He introduced me to his style of eating which was basically buffet restaurants galore and he wouldn't eat if I didn't. Well he didn't have a problem with obesity and was quite healthy so I gave in. Of course looking back now, that should have been ridiculously unacceptable but times and thinking is different. Both he and I were wrong back then, in many ways. Regardless, after he gave up smoking the day after our son was born, he started putting on weight rather quickly and was never successful at breaking below 300lbs again. For reference he also stands at 6'1. Thus he had the gastric sleeve done by the same surgeon who will be performing my procedure next month.

I know I need to keep these entries rather small but I love writing...strangly enough, but I want to keep a record of this journey so that I can look back and follow my own steps thru this process. 

Starting weight is 435lbs, wearing sizes 28-30

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