librarianlk

Type 2 I take metformin, and had things under controls with meds, until yet another weight gain after a failed diet. Now the drs upped my metformin and put me on Victoza. Even if meds keep glucose levels down, diabetes complications scare me. I know weight loss has an effect on diabetes first hand, because when I've lost weight, my need for meds goes down. Short answer, I want healthy levels without medication, and that is one of my biggest reasons for WLS.

Hello out there in bariatric land. Looking forward to learning from all the sleevers out there. I was "chubby" as a child, but not alarmingly so. I thought I was fat in high school, but now as I look at the pictures I was a very healthy weight. I'm a librarian and i love my job. No kids, but happily single. I live in Alaska and have learned to love it. I just want my life to be more than about my weight. Funny, I look in the mirror and i see an overweigh but not grossly so woman. But pictures of myself bring me back to reality. hey guess what: I'm morbidly obese! Current weight is 294, with highest weight at 304. Last year, I did Optifast for 9 months and lost 60 pounds.. It took about 9 months to regain it and and additional 10 pounds. What I hope to achieve from VSG is a new relationship with getting outdoors and being active. It's exhausting to go 20 minute around the block.. I want to go on vacations without having to haul around a cpap, i'd like to go the doctor and not get a lecture. I would like to sit in an airplane seat without a seatbelt extender and not get dirty looks from my seatmate. i want to not be diabetic. My surgeon will be Dr. Rodriguez in Tijuana on October 24. To prove to myself that i can make changes, I've been more or less following the pre-op diet even though it's three months away. Might as well start now, kickstart the weight loss so I have that much more of a head start. I'm excited and nervous. The oher night I had a dream about having some kind of surgery and it was chaotic. Guess the old subconscious is a little freaked out! lk