Wassef

I'm 35 years old, Mexican / Lebanese living in Saudi Arabia. Unfortunately for me, I carry the obesity from my mother side, and during my youth I struggled much to keep in Shape and maintain my ideal weight. I became a marathon runner, I finished the 42 Km run 4 times, a lot of gym, and was able to maintain my weight on the 180th LBS. 
 
Unfortunately later on, I came to Saudi arabia, and my weight started to increase little by little until I reached 286 LBS. Here in Saudi Arabia, you have nothing to do except eating, your fun activity will include having a monster table of whatever unhealthy food you can find. 
 
Blood pressure, back problems, knee problem, and I'm only 35. It really hit me that I'm really going in the wrong way. I started a lot of diets, but I always manage to regain all lost weight in just a couple of weeks. It was not about diet, it was all about changing your life style, which was hard for me! WHAT CAN I SAY, I LOVE FOOD  :P
 
In my last vacation to Lebanon, 3 accidents with extremely high blood pressure reaching 190 Mmhg along with a ligament injury to my right knee due to stairs climbing, I thought it was time to take some drastic measures.
 
August 10th I went for a VSG operation, which went smooth. Second day I was walking around, little bit of gazes, pain controlled. Third days went outside the house and had a long walk, it was exciting that all my worries about the operation where not in the place, I expected a lot of pain and nausea, but I'm actually okay.  The best part, NO HUNGER. Spending the whole day with few liquids and not feeling hungry, when I previously used to bulge a Family Bucket of KFC fried chicken and still feeling hungry. 
 
Now it's my 10th day post my operation, and I'm really excited that I have already lost around 17 LBS, and I'm still going on. Feeling lighter, more energetic. My Blood pressure already dropped dramatically from and average of 140 MmHg to 110 MmHg. 
 
I feel great.