ItalianGirlAZ

Well let's see...my journey started back in 2008, when my husband of 28 years up and left me for no apparent reason...at the time we got married i weighed 125 lbs...i had always been fit and active and for being Italian, that was tough enough to maintain that weight. However I soon learned through the years that my husband liked thick girls and would always say I needed to put on some weight because he didn't want to hug a skeleton all the time...so you know us girls, we want to please our man, so I gained weight...I didn't love myself and I sure felt out of place in this body as well, but as long as hubby was happy, I would deal with it...after the smoke cleared and the divorce was final, I decided it was time for ME...in 2012, I started looking at different options to lose weight...I tried everything, including a weight loss boot camp...I lost weight, but it wasn't enough to keep me going, so I lost interest....it wasn't until my friend at work had approached me and told me she had gotten the Lap-band procedure done, and had lost over 30 lbs in a month...I was stoked and immediately sparked my interest, so I looked into it and in jun 2013, i had the lap-band surgery...things were fine for the first month, and i was losing weight quickly, however my body was telling me something else...i was suddenly getting sick for no apparent reason and it became worse and worse every month...after hearing the lap-band surgeon tell me that it was my body was just adjusting to the foreign object inside me, (which i told him repeatedly that my body was rejecting the band, not adjusting to it), i had had enough...it was now 2016, i was remarried, and was physically feeling miserable...i couldn't eat, sleep, always sick to my stomach, even when i hadn't eaten anything...my new husband is currently serving in the US Army, and ordered me to go see a doctor on base because he hated seeing me like this and i was tired of being sick as well...from the minute I met my current doctor/surgeon, we hit it off...he saw the pain and discomfort I was in and I saw the caring and compassionate person he was...he knew right off the bat what was wrong with me and said to me "lets get that out of you" so i had my band removed oct 2016....we had talked about different options for me, and came to the conclusion that the gastric bypass would be the best alternative over the sleeve due to my acid reflux problem, and my concern of regaining the weight back...here we are now 2017... surgery scheduled for may 30th...excited, nervous, scared, anxious, happy, thrilled but ready for a new day, a healthier lifestyle and a better, lovable me...
Best of luck and wishes to all of you....Be strong, stay focused and above all, LOVE YOURSELF.
Anna aka ItalianGirlAZ