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Hello Everyone, I'm a newbie here from Texas. I am 35 years old, a full time college student and I work full-time, single mom of two beautiful girls. I have struggled with my weight most of my adult life. I have successfully lost weight twice with the help of Phentermine, but I was also diagnosed with hypothyroidism in 2004. In 2011, I found out I actually had Hashmito's Thyroiditis, since 2009 I started to struggle to lose weight and gradually gained more despite diet and exercise. In 2010, I went from 227lbs that summer to being 260lbs at Christmas! Since then, I feel like I've been losing and gaining the same 25lbs over and over again. Most of my relatives were not fat kids, but gained weight to the point of obesity/morbid obesity in their 30's and 40's. I'm not trying to do that and stay there. I have bought a Fitbit last month and really rededicated myself to exercising and my eating right and all I have lost is 5lbs. The struggle has been real. I made up my mind at the first of the year that I was going to have weight loss surgery. I am in the process of getting my ducks in a row (sleep study, psych eval and etc.). My guess is that if I'm lucky I will have surgery either by the late summer or in the fall if my insurance approves. I didn't go to the doctor much last year, so I'm hoping I do not get denied because of lack of documentation. My BMI is 41! At any rate, I am wondering if the surgery will help me finally get this weight off! I plan to follow it to the letter, but since I have been having such a difficult time losing the weight on my own I part of me is scared that I will be taking this drastic measure only for it not to work. I am taking Armour Thyroid and my numbers should (TSH) should be fine. I guess my question is considering that I have hypothyroidism, can I lose and keep the weight off assuming that I follow the rules? Right now I feel like I have the metabolism of a 90 year old--a 90 year old's metabolism might be faster!

This is good to know, because I'm not sure when I will be having the surgery. I just know it will be sometime this year! I work an office job, so I'm not doing a lot of physical stuff at work anyways. I am also a full-time college student (graduating this year), so that whenever I have surgery I am going to have to work out something with my professors so that I don't miss any major assignments. I wish I did know for sure when I was having it, so that I could prepare accordingly. This summer and fall are going to be fairly busy for us as a family, because my oldest daughter is going to college and we still have campus visits to do and what not.

I sure hope I get approved and can lose the weight. If I just lost 50lbs I would feel somewhat "regular" again, but being the overachiever I am if I see that my efforts are actually paying off then I would hope to lose more.

Is it the same kind of gas pain you get in your ribcage while you are pregnant?