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Hello all, long time reader, first time poster. This has been a long road for me as it has been for most of us I am sure with the attempts to loose the same pounds many times over the years. I don't know how many times I have told myself that "I can do anything I put my mind to" and to some extend I have, since I have probably lost approximately 60-70lbs during a relatively short time period several times over the years. The problem is that my life would get busy, and the extreme measures that I was doing would fall by the wayside and my old habits would come back. I simply wasn't able to sustain the weight loss long enough for me to turn it into a sustainable habit. Finally I found myself last November at 5'9" and 381bs, the heaviest I have ever been, I finally decided to make a decision to pursue the investigation to determine if weight loss surgery was right for me.

For my insurance, it required a 6 month time period where you needed to meet with a series of nutritionists to help learn about the surgery and to go through a series of trainings and a psychological exam, decided I needed to loose more weight around March to help make the surgery more safe. My original BMI was around 57, today's weight I am down to 316 so around the 46-47 range. Part of me says, hey, you have already 65 pounds, you can loose the additional 100 that you want to, but part of me understands that is unlikely and has matured and knows his limitations and what I am great at and what I need help at and this is one area that I am not ashamed that I think that I need help at to make sure that it sticks this time around. Especially since my wife and I had another addition to our family the prior year that had started me thinking about making a long term set of changes around my weight.

Making the decision to choose weight loss surgery was not an easy one but I think that the reply to my mother when she asked the question if I thought I could lose the weight without surgery has summed up my reasoning . My reply was "I can do anything I put my mind to, but unfortunately after a time my mind wanders.". My hope is that this surgery will help me have the tools to keep the weight off during the times that my mind wanders or at least allow me to get to the point where the weight loss is significant amount that the new lifestyle becomes the new habits as I want to enjoy the rest of my children's childhoods as an physically active participant instead of only intellictually participant one.

Sincerely,

Arcyne

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