Hello Everyone,
I am new to this site, and think it is an excellent form of communication for the VSG community. I am 21 yrs old, and recently found out at the beggining of this year that I have type 2 diabetes. My starting weight was 315 huge lbs., and I am now down to 269 lbs. one week post-op as of today. I have very mixed emotions about all of this. I was so determined to have weight loss surgery for about 3 years, I tried the whole 1-800-GET-THIN crap and it was a scam. I tried going through different places to finance and it never worked out. So, I finally changed my insurance through my employer, I got Kaiser Permanente and I found out through a co-worker who has been on the same journey as me that they have a Bariatrics Program; which is a 3 month program providing you with all the info you need about the Gastric Bypass, VSG, and lap-band. I did the classes and finally had my surgery. I was extatic and it felt so unreal because what I had been wishing for came true (nothing in my life happens that way), but now I feel like I don't know if I made the right choice, and I'm scared that people would think of me differently, and I don't want to change the person I was unknowingly. I just think I'm being very emotional and I don't know how to handle it because I'm so not an emotional person!!! So, I just wanted to ask you all to give me some feed back please! Did you feel this way? Like "OMG, I'm never going to get to eat those foods that tasted so good again!" And, "I'm not even going to be the same funny person that I've always been!" HELP please!!!
-Mel
