My story is of 20 plus years of dieting ...it started while serving in the military overseas I had gained about 10lbs weight after 2 miscarrages. I had to go on what the military called the fat girl program (true!!) at only 147lbs and 5'9'' I felt complete humilation...that began my hate of my body.

Recently at my psych eval she asked me to go thru the diets I had tried over the years and I was shocked that it was over 37 different types of diets from phinthin, atkins, slimfast, soup diet, yogurt diet in the 90s to even bulemia to stay within military guidelines.losing and gaining 100's of lbs over and over... Im sure most of you have similar diet memories. I've never looked at surgery as the answer but after all the weight ups ad downs it has began to effect my health.

So now I am ready to battle this once and for all...April 24th is my surgery date and frankly I cannot weight(pun intended) lol Im having surgery @ University of Missouri

A big hello & kudos to all those who have gone before me and hello to those that are in pre-surgery jeeters like me!

Have anyone had surgery at the VA hospital in Huntington, West Virginia?

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My surgeon is Dr.Blaine Nease in Huntington at the center for surgical weight control and unless I am mistaken he does the surgeries over at the VA as well. I'm not sleeved yet though!