mandaroo

Hello All!
I am 31 and  a single mother of three, but I actually have four children. I, like a lot of you have struggled with my weight all of my life. I have always been the "big girl" and was finally just starting to be ok with that. My father passed away in September from massive heart failure, he also had diabetes. with my dads passing it left me to care for my six year old baby sister. I knew right then that I had to make some major life changes. I need to get healthy for my babies, all four of them. I don't want them to have to go through what my sister is going through right now. I want to be able to be in their lives for a very long time, and the road that I was going down was not going to get me there.  
I looked into bariatric surgery a little over a year ago and was talked out of it by my mom, who isn't really understanding or supportive right now. I will be taking her to my steps for success class on Monday so that she can have a better understanding of why I have made this decision. I know it is going to be a hard road, but I am ready.
So far I have gotten my initial consultation out of the way and am working on  my check list. I have my steps to success class on Monday and my psych eval scheduled for Friday. After that everything else is done but the hard part. I have to give up smoking for six weeks, which is not a bad thing, it will be hard, expecially, starting out with my pre op diet at the same time. I have to lose 30 lbs before surgery so I will be on a 4 week diet.
Wish me luck... cause I will definitely need a lot of it.
Thanks for reading, and good luck to all of you while  you are on this journey!!