I am a 30 year old female. I have been a lil overweight as long as I can remember. When I was 15 I weighted 130 and I was happy with that but even that was considered overweight for my 5'1" frame. I did not have a big problem with my weight until I had the Depo birth control shot and after that no matter what I do or try I have not been able to lose very much weight. As of now I weight 325 but oddly I dont see my self as big in my minds eye, I still see my self as what I was 15 years ago. I have tried all the diets and weight loss plans over that last 10 yrs. I have even tried meds to help was on those for 3 months but only lost like 5lbs even though I walked/worked out every day. I have never ate a lot nor do I eat a lot of bad foods. I love salad and have one every day for lunch. About 6 months ago I started on the road for the weight loss surgery, and now I just have to finish 3 more things before they will schedule the surgery and those will be completed in the mid nov. I dont have a lot of medical problems with myself the bigest I would say is I have MASSIVE heartburn problems as in I take two different meds for it and they still dont help. I am very active but I do have to say that I have I have missed all the sports I used to do when I was younger. I want to get back to those, I think about them all the time and cant wait till I can do them again. I have spent countless hours looking up info on the gastric bypass and I have also read good and bad stories about it. Yes they are always on my mind as well about what can go wrong and what can happen, but I feel this is the only option left to me to be able to get my life back. I look at this I cant even go to a normal store to by clothes a lot of the time because they dont have them big enough for me. I am a size 28/32 area and they only have 26. I am not one to wear tight clothes to show off what I have never been that way and I dont want to start just cause I cant find the right size for what I want to wear. So I am looking forward to the day that I get to have my surgery, I also cant wait for people who have not seen me in a number of years to see me after I loss a lot of the weight so I can be happy with my self. I look forward to reading your stories on how every thing goes with you all and plan to keep up on my own story on here now that I have found a great site to be able to do that and mostly every one on here has gone though what I will soon. So i love all the input!!!

Wanda

I am a 30 year old female. I have been a lil overweight as long as I can remember. When I was 15 I weighted 130 and I was happy with that but even that was considered overweight for my 5'1" frame. I did not have a big problem with my weight until I had the Depo birth control shot and after that no matter what I do or try I have not been able to lose very much weight. As of now I weight 325 but oddly I dont see my self as big in my minds eye' date=' I still see my self as what I was 15 years ago. I have tried all the diets and weight loss plans over that last 10 yrs. I have even tried meds to help was on those for 3 months but only lost like 5lbs even though I walked/worked out every day. I have never ate a lot nor do I eat a lot of bad foods. I love salad and have one every day for lunch. About 6 months ago I started on the road for the weight loss surgery, and now I just have to finish 3 more things before they will schedule the surgery and those will be completed in the mid nov. I dont have a lot of medical problems with myself the bigest I would say is I have MASSIVE heartburn problems as in I take two different meds for it and they still dont help. I am very active but I do have to say that I have I have missed all the sports I used to do when I was younger. I want to get back to those, I think about them all the time and cant wait till I can do them again. I have spent countless hours looking up info on the gastric bypass and I have also read good and bad stories about it. Yes they are always on my mind as well about what can go wrong and what can happen, but I feel this is the only option left to me to be able to get my life back. I look at this I cant even go to a normal store to by clothes a lot of the time because they dont have them big enough for me. I am a size 28/32 area and they only have 26. I am not one to wear tight clothes to show off what I have never been that way and I dont want to start just cause I cant find the right size for what I want to wear. So I am looking forward to the day that I get to have my surgery, I also cant wait for people who have not seen me in a number of years to see me after I loss a lot of the weight so I can be happy with my self. I look forward to reading your stories on how every thing goes with you all and plan to keep up on my own story on here now that I have found a great site to be able to do that and mostly every one on here has gone though what I will soon. So i love all the input!!!

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Welcome Wanda! You will love it here.

Hi Wanda!! Welcome to the forums... It's a great place to ask questions and everyone here is so helpful

Welcome and We are so happy to share your journey. You will find a lot of support and info here.