Hello! my name is Tessa and I'm a 22 year old class II obese girl. i was looking for support group community to share and document my process in and i found BariatricPal

Ive been a big girl almost all my life, i went from an extremely skinny kid to an over weight teen. However, i have never seen my weight as a problem even when i was over weight, i have always thought that my body was not perfect but not too bad either so why change it! that is until recent years.. my weight has skyrocketed in almost five years i went from 70 kg to 105 very fast, bringing with it lots of medical problems, high blood pressure, back and joint problems, asthma, high cholesterol levels, stretch marks, and lots of insecurities. i went on lots of stupid extreme diets, protein only diets that made me sick to my stomach and at times very moody, i never had time to work out due to my very busy schedule but i did manage to go to the gym from time to time.

i have just graduated from university and decided to invest all my time and effort to lose the weight and get my life back on track again, i have decided that Gastric sleeve surgery is my best choice to help me achieve my goal and prevent illnesses like diabetes that my doctor is predicting for me, my main goal is not to lose the wight for beauty and appearance purposes (even though its a big plus and going to be a huge boost to my insecurity issues) but to mainly tackle some if not all my illnesses, the fact that I'm 22 and already suffer from illnesses that prevent me of living a normal life is troubling to me.

Today I'm setting my surgeries date and i will be updating and documenting my journey through this from

All in all, i joined this website to educate myself as much as can to tackle obesity and learn how not to fall back to living an unhealthy life.

Thank you for reading!

Tessa