So I am a 27 year old Mother of two young children, my daughter just turned 4 years old and my son is 9 and a half months old. When I was 13 years old I gained 100lbs in one year and no one can pinpoint why. No abuse happened at that time, no sob story or traumatic event... I just ballooned the second I hit puberty. I had always been teased about being fat anyway so I can't say that I really noticed other than needing to shop in "the adult fat people's section" instead of being a tween shopping in the regular adult's section. I have easily been 100lbs+ overweight from that point on no matter what I have done the smallest I have ever been for the last 14 years was 199lbs that lasted half of one day before I started gaining it back again. It probably didnt help that to get down to that weight I was just not eating and then binging and purging when I did eat. I always wished that I could have some sort of WLS but I always had this notion that it was only for people who were 400+ lbs...

Fast forward to a couple months ago... I had not had my period in a long while so I made an appt to see my GP thinking that the inevitable had happened and that I was expecting my third child. Unfortunately 4 days before my appt I started bleeding very VERY heavily and passing clots so needless to say when I went in I found out that I had in fact been experiencing a miscarriage. Cognitively I knew it was for the best but emotionally I was a wreck and packed on at least 15 more lbs. While I was there with my GP I just kinda threw it out there knowing that I would probably have to convince her... I just blurted out "what would you say if I said I wanted WLS?!" She has been my GP for almost 5 years so she knows my struggles... she simply asked me if I had tried losing weight before to which we both laughed and then she simply said, "do it." I nodded my head, we ended our appt and I went to my car and cried. It still makes me cry... to admit that for the first time I am not capable of doing something entirely for myself and that I am having to ask for help. It also means that I had to admit that I was not "fat and happy" but extremely disgusted with myself and the life that I had been forced to live because of my weight struggles.

Anyway, it took me a while to find my surgeon because my insurance requires a COE for the location of the surgery but once I did find my surgeon, Dr. Jossart, everything has been smooth sailing. Met with him and the NUT on the same day, had my psych eval the next day and all of my pre-op tests done. Roughly two weeks after I had my psych eval I got a call from Patty at Dr. Jossart's office telling me that they had all of my approval and that they would be getting me in on Dec. 13th... the next day she called me back and asked if we could bump it to the 12th!! I've spent a lot of time soul searching and crying but it's been very cleansing. It's an important journey for me... I don't want to be pushing 300lbs for the rest of my life. My husband, kids and mostly I deserve more than that life has to offer.

Hi RSWA3319...I sent you a private message. Just checking on you and seeing how the Dietician appt went.

I hope you are less nervous!!

Hi Vicki, I just sent one back

Everything went really well today, I will be checking into Good Sam in San Jose at 530am on the 12th, the surgery is scheduled for 730am, it'll be roughly 60-90 minutes with one hour of post op recovery and then up to my room for the night.

As far as liquid diet... only the day before is complete liquids. Currently I hate to eat Breakfast though so I am doing a shake in the morning, coffee until lunchtime, lunch consists of veggies and meat and dinner is the same. Super low fat, low carb and high Protein and according to the NUT that'll do the trick with thinning the stomach lining and reducing fat in the liver.