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I am a 28 year old athletic fat-kid from Ohio......living in Alabama. I moved away from home after graduating from pharmacy school in 2011, because I felt my friends and family were enabling me and that was the main reason I gained weight. Well after being on my own for a while I did lose weight, but once I made friends in this area the weight came back. They weren't enabling anything. This problem laid square on my broad shoulders. I am a social guy and food has always been a medium for me during those times. I realized that this might be the one thing in my life I need to ask for help on. It definitely isn't the easy way out as some people look at it.
I have always been able to hide behind my athletic build (even though I was a big guy). I always kept pace with my smaller friends and never really had it hamper my life. As I get older, I feel pains and creaks in my bones and I can only imagine what that will be like in 30 years (if I made it that long).
Luckily other than some mild hypertension, I dont have any other co-morbidities that are related to morbid obesity.....and I want to keep it that way. For most of my twenties I have hovered around 315-335. Yo-yo dieting and killing myself in the gym. I have always been a gym rat, so that has helped me have a bad diet and "maintain" my 300 lb plus physique.
As I am typing this I am 16 days post-op and bloated as hell still (vertical sleeve). I am trying my best to adjust to the new life and hope that this forum will help with questions and eventually I can help other people as I continue.
I have always been able to hide behind my athletic build (even though I was a big guy). I always kept pace with my smaller friends and never really had it hamper my life. As I get older, I feel pains and creaks in my bones and I can only imagine what that will be like in 30 years (if I made it that long).
Luckily other than some mild hypertension, I dont have any other co-morbidities that are related to morbid obesity.....and I want to keep it that way. For most of my twenties I have hovered around 315-335. Yo-yo dieting and killing myself in the gym. I have always been a gym rat, so that has helped me have a bad diet and "maintain" my 300 lb plus physique.
As I am typing this I am 16 days post-op and bloated as hell still (vertical sleeve). I am trying my best to adjust to the new life and hope that this forum will help with questions and eventually I can help other people as I continue.
Age: 38
Height: 6 feet 1 inches
Starting Weight: 365 lbs
Weight on Day of Surgery: 348 lbs
Current Weight: 327 lbs
Goal Weight: 195 lbs
Weight Lost: 38 lbs
BMI: 43.1
Surgery: Gastric Sleeve
Surgery Status: Post Surgery
First Dr. Visit: 07/06/2014
Surgery Date: 03/10/2015
Hospital Stay: 4 Days
Surgery Funding: Insurance
Insurance Outcome: 1st Letter Approval
doclecomte's Bariatric Surgeon
Southeastern Surgical Specialists, PC
6701 Airport Blvd
Suite B-222
Mobile, AL 36604
6701 Airport Blvd
Suite B-222
Mobile, AL 36604