Kait87

My name is Kait and I will be 31 years old in about 3 weeks. I'm 6 feet tall so I've always been the person who was told, even by medical professionals, you don't look like you weigh that much. While I was never fit and athletic, I was actually not an especially big kid or teen. At 16 I weighed around 175 lbs which is the top end of normal for my BMI and I was pretty happy with my body. I was lifting weights 5 days a week at school and I lived on a small ranch so I was very active at home and I never really thought about my weight or what I was eating. I had some mental health issues my junior year of high school and dropped out for about 6 months. At the same time my family sold the ranch and we moved into town. I still didn't think about what I was eating and really didn't think about the fact that I was no longer active like I had been. In 6 months I put on 75 pounds which put me at 250. I maintained that weight for years and then I had a bad breakup that included calling off a wedding. I was humiliated and turned to food for comfort which put me at around 280 pounds pretty quick. I met my husband shortly thereafter and for about 3 years maintained my weight. After we got married and settled into our lives it just started creeping up on me. I went through a period of unemployment for about a year where I would spend all day in bed eating. A few other things happened as well and every time I turned to food for comfort.

Then one day I fell and broke my leg and ruptured a tendon in my ankle that required surgery for repair. It was probably the first time I had weighed myself in years and the scale said I weighed 378 lbs. I was shocked. My husband is also a bigger man and we both agreed right there that we needed a change. We started with counting calories and walking. Over the course of 9 months I managed to lose about 60 pounds when I started having trouble with my gall bladder. After a visit to urgent care led to surgery I tried sticking to the calorie counting, but it seemed like all of a sudden everything I ate upset my stomach. I pretty much ended up on a B.R.A.T diet because it was the only thing that wouldn't send me rushing to the bathroom praying that I made it on time. It is not however conducive to weight loss and over the course of 18 months I put all of the weight I had lost back on. 

My digestive system seems to have evened out a bit now and I'm ready for a change. My father recently had a heart attack and a triple bypass and I don't want that to be me in 20 years. My husband is 100% on board and ready to support me and my very close friend at work is actually looking into WLS around the same time so we are encouraging each other and sharing information.

I was approved for surgery on 6/8/2018 with a goal date of mid-March 2019 for my procedure date. I'm very excited and ready to start this new chapter in my life. I'm starting this journey back at 378 lbs with a goal of dropping at least 30 before my surgery date to get my BMI down to 48. I'm ready to conquer this thing that isolates me and really start living the life I have dreamed of with my husband.