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The Start Of My New Life - Here It Goes

Today is March 15, 2012 and I have decided that I am going to have the Gastric Sleeve surgery. I am 34 years old and have been over weight my whole life. I weighed 287 pound in the 7th grade. At the age of 14 I had my gallbladder removed and lost about 40 pounds but as I got better I gained all of that weight back and an additional 30 pounds. At the age of 15 I was diagnosed with Non Hodginkins Lymphoma (Cancer) at this time I weight 298 pounds at the age of 15. I went through Chemo therapy for 1 year and a half at the end of my treatments I was down to 160 pounds. It was the smallest that I had ever been in my life. Due to the Chemo I became and insulin dependant diabetic. I stayed small for about 10 years; I had a baby and still only weighted 180 pounds. It was great I could ware a size 9 in pants I looked good.   I meat my husband in 2001 and when we started dating I was at about 180 pounds. I looked and felt healthy. As the years went by I had to start on a insulin pump. For those that don’t know what that is, it’s a devise that give a continuous feed of insulin 24 hours a day. You only have to inject yourself every three days. It is great. I can travel very easily now and I love it. The only down fall to this beautiful device is that it makes you GAIN WEIGHT a lot of WEIGHT.   I got my pump in 2005 and since then I have gained 125 pounds to what is my current weight now of 328 pounds. Both of my sisters have done the gastric bypass surgery and they are doing great. I don’t have an insurance that will cover this kind of surgery so I have been exploring different options for weight loss. I am a great dieter NOT I hate to diet. I have no will power and I am a very picky eater, but I have tried several different things to loose weight just to name a few Weight Watcher, Jenny Craig, Liquid only diets, Pill all kinds of them that they would help me and NOTHING, Nothing as all, Maybe 5 to 10 pounds here and there but nothing that I would call well. So I have decided to go with the Gastric Sleeve and I will be having my surgery in Mexico with Dr. Mario Almanza. I have read nothing but nice things about him and his staff and it is really affordable so   HERE IS TO MY NEW LIFE
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