I’m sure some of you may wonder how and why I have gotten to the point of the extreme consideration of Weight Loss Surgery. When I started considering the surgery I started making a list in my head to answer the big question: Why? I want to be able to run after my very energetic …
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The Easy Way Out?
I continued my research on my own as I waited for my phone call from OWLS. I was visiting one of the community sites they recommend their patients to become involved in. While there I ran into Karrie Massotti’s post about Why Weight Loss Surgery is Not the Easy Way Out that she had written at Spark People. Her post goes over a lot of the after effects of surgery, about the social issues, and why she chose to have the surgery. These are the things that I have to consider as I move forward down this path. Life will be so much different. This is not a magic button though, I will still have to fight and work. This is a tool for me to lose weight.
Scheduling my appointment
I got a hold of scheduling and found out to make this even harder they only do appointments on Fridays and Saturdays. The two days I am scheduled at work now. But they were able to fit me in on a Saturday I already had asked off, March 12th. Their goal is to try and get as many of the test you need done in each appointment. Some of the tests I will have to go through:
- Bariatric medical evaluation (history and physical) with a nurse practitioner or bariatrician
- Nutrition counseling and diet history
- Psychological testing and evaluation (I will get the contact info from them and have to schedule this test on my own)
- Physical therapy or exercise assessment
- Lab work
- EKG (I will not be able to do this on the day scheduled, so I will have one more appointment to schedule)
- Sleep study
For the Sleep Study I get to bring a special box home to see if I have sleep apnea. I think this will be very interesting. Especially since lately I’ve been so tired, I’m hoping loosing weight may help. My insurance company also requires me to participate in a “medically managed weight loss program” for 6 months. I will be visiting OWLS every month to work with their nutritionist to weigh in and discuss diet and exercise. I’m actually very happy with this, because if I can loose the weight on my own I would love that. I’m not too hopeful but maybe a professional can help me.
To Be Continued…
Next week I will only be a few days away from my first appointment. We will see how anxious I will be. I really don’t like doctors so by next Wednesday I may be really freaking out. We will see.
My Acceptance Letter
Yep, I received my acceptance letter to start working towards my goal of weight loss surgery. I was so excited and I wanted to share it with everyone, but on the other hand I didn’t want to admit I was to this point in my weight. Part of me felt like I was taking the easy way …
My Next Big Steps
Last week I came out and told you, my lovely readers, that I had made the decision to have Weight Loss Surgery. I started doing my research last year, but we decided due to deductibles we would do the surgery after the new year. Because our insurance company was changing on the new year I was …
Making a Weighty Decision
I’ve been debating if I should blog about this new step in my life. The fact is it is going to be a new part in my life and going to change my life forever. There is no reason not to share it.
Last November after talking to TJ for a long while we decided to start looking into weight loss surgery for me. We have a lot of money in our Health Savings Account, so it wouldn’t be a detriment to our income and so I started considering it.
My First Diet
I have been overweight since third grade. I also just have a larger frame (big boned really is true). But I definitely have extra padding too.
In middle school I made a mad dash to try and loose weight. I pretty much starved myself. I would drink a carnation breakfast drink (usually one spoonful in a glass of milk) for breakfast. I would have baked french fries with ranch for lunch, sharing them with my table (I know healthy choice right, I was 12), and I would pick at my dinner which I was required to eat because my step father made me. When I got down to 140lbs (still 10lbs overweight) my mom took me to Disneyland for the first time.
But Not My Last
After that first diet I still continued to gain weight consistently. Through high school, as hard as I tried not to, through college, and into my marriage. I was at least lucky enough to gain very little at my pregnancies, but after a year after Zarek’s birth I started gaining again. I’m on a new medication and I think that this made the weight gain even worse last year, gaining 50lbs in 6 months.
I’m now at my heaviest I’ve ever been and even now I cannot share the number, yet. I’ve tried diets and diets and diets, with no true success. I can lose 7lbs consistently each time I diet to only turn around and gain even more.
My Last Attempt
I’m down to my last attempt to try and turn my body around. I’ve been praying about this and thinking about it for months.
I also considered trying a treatment that dealt with injections. But after a little reading I decided this was not for me. There was too much worries about hormone issues (and I may want one more baby someday in the future) and I try not to mess with my hormones too much. Plus it sounds like once you are done with the shots it’s really hard to maintain the diet loss.
After researching that option I started researching the Lap Band. This is the direction I believe I will be going with.
To Be Continued
Next week I will be talking more about this so if you would like to see where this leads me I hope you will subscribe to my feed. If you have questions feel free and ask them in the comments.
Defeated But Not Giving Up
Today (well actually yesterday) was filled with positives and negatives. This is the year I have decided to defeat my weight one way or another.
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