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I'm Madeline, a 30-year-old school librarian. I've struggled with an unhealthy relationship with food for my entire life. In August of 2015, after seeing several friend's reveling in their own wls successes, I asked my husband, "would you support me if I wanted to have a bariatric surgery?" and he confided he wouldn't.
Zooming forward to February 2016, I was in a dark and ugly place. I was beginning to feel like a blob, not like a human. I'd reached the highest I'd ever weighed- 300 lbs. I began not wanting to hang out with friends. I was ashamed to talk about "normal" things, like sex, with my smaller friends because I felt like I was torturing them by making them think of someone as fat as me have sex. In the middle of the night when my head was rambling through horrid thoughts I stumbled upon my surgeon's website.
Now it's 3 weeks (exactly) out from my gastric sleeve and I am so excited. After months of discussions with my husband and my surgeon I'm in a place I need to be. I've become obsessed with researching the gastric sleeve! The most important people in my life have been so, so supportive.
Here's to a new life!
Zooming forward to February 2016, I was in a dark and ugly place. I was beginning to feel like a blob, not like a human. I'd reached the highest I'd ever weighed- 300 lbs. I began not wanting to hang out with friends. I was ashamed to talk about "normal" things, like sex, with my smaller friends because I felt like I was torturing them by making them think of someone as fat as me have sex. In the middle of the night when my head was rambling through horrid thoughts I stumbled upon my surgeon's website.
Now it's 3 weeks (exactly) out from my gastric sleeve and I am so excited. After months of discussions with my husband and my surgeon I'm in a place I need to be. I've become obsessed with researching the gastric sleeve! The most important people in my life have been so, so supportive.
Here's to a new life!
Age: 38
Height: 5 feet 9 inches
Starting Weight: 300 lbs
Weight on Day of Surgery:
Current Weight: 295 lbs
Goal Weight: 165 lbs
Weight Lost: 5 lbs
BMI: 43.6
Surgery: Gastric Sleeve
Surgery Status: Pre Surgery
First Dr. Visit: 03/17/2016
Surgery Date: 06/21/2016
Hospital Stay: 2 Days
Surgery Funding: Insurance
Insurance Outcome: 1st Letter Approval