Amy4a2381

I am a 34year old mother and wife.  (house keeper, chef, chauffer) My son is 6 years.  I am on the PTO, room parent and volunteer at my sons school.  I am originally from Louisiana but have been in Texas for 16 years.  I have been with my husband for 18 years and married for 15.  I am so happy that he has been very supportive when it comes to my yo yo struggle.  He loves me for me and just wants me happy with myself.  I enjoy spending time with my family.
 
Obesity related health issues: PCOS, High BP, High Cholesterol, High Blood Sugar, Hypothyroidism, Depression.  (heart attack waiting to happen)
 
I am scared for my life.  My son is 6 yrs old.  I want to see him graduate, go to college, get married and have grandchildren.  My father died at the age of 42 from a heart attack and my mother at 48. I don't want this to happen to me.
 
The Struggle:
I have been overweight my whole life.  I started my first yo-yo dieting at 14(160lb) with slim fast and Richard Simmons.  I got down to 140 Up down up down. (I had no idea how to eat healthy.) My mom was pushing 400 so she didn't know either.  I was diagnosed with PCOS at 14 so that in itself made it hard. 
 
By the time I gradutated high school(1999) I was 185.  We moved to texas,  I didn't work for the first 6mths so I was lazy, and homesick.  I got up to 200 by the time I was 20.  We wanted to have a baby but it was really hard. 
 
By 22 I was already on blood pressure, cholesterol and thyroid meds.    I discovered low carbing (sugar busters) with that I lost about 50lbs.  Of course I got off track and packed it all back on.
I had a miscarriage at 24 and it was devastating.  So along came the antidepressants.  I eventually got up to 240 by the age of 25/26. 
 
 By age 27 I sought out help from and endocrinologist for my thyroid, blood sugar and fertility.  She put me on South Beach diet and metformin.  She told me I needed to lose weight before trying any further to conceive.  So I did.  I got down to 200.
 
 I finally got pregnant naturally.   I had gestational diabetes and had to continue metformin throughout my pregnancy.  I got close to having to take insulin.  I gained 40 lbs and had my son 2 mths early (jan 2009).  After I had him I lost 15lbs.  Of course he was in the hospital for a month and I was sad.  On my sons first birthday back up to 250 and I promised myself I would not get bigger no matter what it takes.  I worked hard but nothing was helping.  Its really hard after having a baby. 
 
In June 2010 I had Lap band surgery with True Results.  It helped for about 2 years.  I lost 40. It stopped working and I was having to go in for adjustments every month.  Turned out the band had a leak.  In Jan 2013 I was up to 210 started working out at curves and following atkins.  I finally got down to 185 by Sept.  It worked finally had a good workout routine.  Well then there are the holidays.
 
by December I crept up to 195, come march2014, 205.  I started getting bored with the workout and was slacking a lot. By August I was back to 210. 
2014 Holidays and up another 5/10lbs was maintaining 215/220 ( not at all happy about that.)
 
So now at age 34 I got in touch with the surgeon that did the original surgery for True results.  I was not happy with TR so I broke off and just started seeing my surgeon.  We discussed replacing the band and I was just going to do that because it was the cheaper route but after a lot of thought and discussions with my husband I decided to have the band removed and converted to the sleeve.  I didn't want to go through the same thing with adjustments and risking it leaking again.  After having fun and vacations I was up to 230.  I started pre-op on July 8th, I was down to 123 day of surgery now I am 19 days post op and I am down to 214.