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I'm 34! Having surgery on Friday June 13th. Looking forward to living again and hopefully dating!!!

Hi everyone! I'm Tyari (pronounced Ty-ARE-ee), 34 years old, single, no kids (by choice). I'm scheduled for surgery this Friday June 13th at 10:30am, checking in at 8:30am. My goal is to lose about 185 lbs. I'm friendly, random, loyal, respectful, understanding and cooky I have 2 wonderful parents, a brother, sister in law, 2 handsome nephews and a fur baby - my one and a half year old Boston Terrier, Jack Russell Terrier mix Mali I love hanging out with my friends and going to the movies and hookah lounges, beach, shopping, getting manis/pedis, or just staying in and watching tv. At age 21, I started piling on the weight as a result of a sedentary job and getting a car (no more walking to and from stores and bus stops). I was a curvy 190 lbs/size 14 and ballooned up rather quickly. In 2008 I was diagnosed with major depressive disorder and anxiety as well as lupus. The effects of depression and other facts propelled me to my highest weight of 370 lbs. I have Kaiser Permanente and I started my process May 23, 2013, that was the day I went to the bariatric orientation. After that I was required to go to a lifestyle and weight management class, which was a week later. Part of KP's requirements is that the patient have 3 months of independent weight loss counseling or supervised diet documented. I didn't have anything like that so I did KP's Ask a Dietitian once a week to meet that part of it. After that, I had to meet with the bariatric dr. to get admitted to the Options program (a 6 month long once a week nutritional and bariatric educational program). I started Options on Oct 14, 2013 and completed it on April 7, 2014. I wasn't able to lose the 10% of my body weight that we are required to lose during the Options program so I had to meet with the dr again after completion of the program and he just told me to not gain any weight and allowed me to go forward with the process. Then I had to do a fitness test - I basically had to walk around the building 5 times. After that, I was called for blood work. Once that was done, about a week or so later they gave me my authorization number so I called Pacific Bariatric Surgical Medical Group and scheduled my appointments with the internist, psychologist and surgeon - they book them all on the same day, back to back. After that, my case went into final review and the surgeon signed off on it and they called me on May 30th to schedule me surgery! It's so good to read everyone's stories and see how different we are but we all have the same goal - to be healthy and happy!