Hi, My name is Melissa. I am 59 years old , a widow with 2 grown daughters. I live in northern New Jersey. I put on over 40 lbs since my husband passed 10 years ago, my weight climbed to 238lbs and have struggled to take it off. I started looking into weight loss about 3 years ago, but my insurance company declined me since I did not have a 5 year history documented with a physician. I went to the dr. regularly after that, and am happy to say that my insurance company approved my surgery July 3rd and Ihad surgery on July 15th.... I am feeling good and have lost a total of 20lbs since the day I found out that I was getting the surgery (6 lbs prior to the surgery and 14 lbs since the surgery).
