Hi everyone... Well lets see, I'm 26, and I'm 301 lbs. I've been 325 before, and that was scary, I couldn't find pants to fit. I think that was when I decided that this was too much for me and I needed to get help.
I've always been overweight, but never really overweight. I was about 180 at 5'6" for a couple years, and that was fine, I could have been thinner, but it wasn't bad. After I had my son, I gained a ton of weight, and I couldn't do anything to get rid of it. I tried working out and dieting through my doctor and other programs out there, it seemed like nothing worked. I'm Japanese and Irish, and have a very traditional Japanese family on my dad's side, and all my life I've been made fun of by the family for being overweight, I'm the biggest person in my family by far. No one is even near my weight. They're all tiny, itty bitty. It's given me a complex, I wonder if I'll ever feel thin... I know I'll never be the 100 lbs my sister is, but that's who I'll always be compared to, it hurts a lot. Most recently, my dad got a new girlfriend, and he talks about her kids who are the same age as my sister and myself, and how thin and wonderful they are, I mean who does that? Who talks about body type like that except my disapointed dad...
I ended up getting a job at a trendy little internet company, it was full of beautiful smart people, seriously, walking in was like looking at a modeling agency. I have no idea how I got the job, I think because of my sense of humor. See, being overweight, I'd always relied on my sense of humor to save me. By this time, I had quit college, gained over 100 lbs, and moved away from my friends and family. It was a very weird time.
This is when I started to think about having weight loss surgery seriously, it had always been in the back of my mind but I never considered it seriously as an option. But with the weight absolutely not coming off, I had to do something. I quit my job, moved back to my hometown, my husband and son are still in San Francisco, where I moved from, but they're moving here soon. My husband is still in grad school and our son is in the middle of preschool, so we're waiting for him to finish up before we move him out here, I'm in Sacramento.
Yeah, so I moved, I changed my PCP, I talked to my doctor about getting the surgery, she sent me to a seminar, and the journey started.
I got my pre authorization, and met with the surgon, did the pre op tests, blood work, ekg and chest x ray. I didn't have to complete a psych exam or meet with a nutritionist. I was approved for surgery about a week after I finished the tests. I have BC of CA.
I have a surgery date, October 23, and I'm really excited. I have a pre-op appointment on the 11th, not sure what happens there. So that's pretty much where I am now. I had my lawyer friend draft me a living will, just in case, that was sort of creepy... But necessary I think.
Anyway, I felt it necessary to write my story, and share it with you guys
Here's my story.... in progress
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