Most of you who know me know that I have a serious problem with my weight, I am undertall for all of it!! It seems however that I have stopped growing in hight and have continued to expand width wise for many years. The obesity in my life has caused several problems for me health wise, diabetes, high blood pressure, high cholesterol, etc, etc, the list it seems goes on and on.
I have tried many different diet plans from cabbage soup to Adkins to Weight Watchers, while I have lost some weight on all of these programs I just gain it all back again and a few extra pounds with it.
Early this year I began researching a different approach to weight loss, surgery. After a few months of research and talking to Stefanie about this I decided to move forward with getting the surgery done. Surgery is the only approach to weight loss for people that have 100 pounds or more to lose that has been proven to be effective on a long term basis, greater than a 75% success rate. All other methods combined have less than a 1% success rate. Pretty easy math, even for me.
I started in the Samaritan Bariatric Program in April or May. I have completed almost all of the prerequisites to have the surgery done.
1. General informational meeting
2. Surgical informational meeting
3. Psychological Evaluation (almost failed I think)
4. Nutritional Consult
5. Sleep Study
6. Support group meeting
7. Lose 5% of original weight, 391, 19.55 lbs, today I am at 373.
8. Insurance approval
9. Program Fee $750.00
Currently I still have about 2 lbs to lose and am still waiting on insurance approval.
My surgery is scheduled for October 6th, I am hoping to get it moved up to the 4th though.
This blog is just a way for me to keep track of the day to day stuff really after surgery
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