TXGirlWannaBThin

I’ve been reading this site for 3 ½ months now. I have been so inspired by everyone’s story. Thank you all. It made my journey so much easier. My story is not that different from any one elses. I’ve been overweight most (if not all) of my life. I can’t remember being a normal healthy weight. I’ve tried so many diets and had some success and, you guessed it, I gained it all back plus some. I started thinking about VSG last October…I seriously started thinking about it this March. I hosted a wedding shower for a friend of mine. Once I saw the pictures, I was devastated. How in the world had I gotten that big? I made up my mind then. I have to do something drastic to get healthy. I was headed to an early grave. I attended a Weight Loss Seminar and when I heard my options, I was sold on the sleeve. I did some research. I found this site. I looked at all the good and the bad about the surgery. My mind was made up. I talked to my immediate family and they were surprisingly very supportive. Not that I didn't think they would be, but I really thought I would have to talk at least one of them into it. I love my family! Luckily, my insurance does pay for the procedure. I only needed to prove I had attempted a weight loss program for 6 months (which my latest attempt was WW for 9 months last year) and get a psych eval. Both…done!! It’s now a little more than 3 months later and I’m sleeved! For 3 ½ weeks now I‘ve been on my WL journey. I had no problems with the surgery. No complications. I never got sick…thank goodness!! (They did keep me an extra night in the hospital because of unusually high CO2 level in my blood.) Other than that, I’m doing great. I’ve lost 18 lbs. since surgery and I lost 11.8 lbs. on the pre-op diet. It all happened so fast for me. I wake up every morning and wonder, wow, where the time go. I feel like I just started this yesterday. And it’s done. I’m still in aw. Now I hit the hard part. Getting off an excess 130 lbs. Wish me luck. Tina