He reason I am obese is because I loved to eat. I love to eat Hamburgers my most favorite meal and French fries. I loved fried chicken and mashed potatoes with gravy. Oh don't leave out the Mac and cheese. I loved pizza oh my gosh extra cheese and cheese bread. I could name all the stuff unhealthy that I loved it would take a while. I loved it and that's what I ate.

I hated food that was good for me. You know grilled chicken or baked fish. Vegetables not loaded in butter. Salad that was not over flowing with ranch dressing. The things that would help me I hated. I would rather had not eaten the. To eat it.

Then there were always the diets yes those. The diets of salad with a spoon of dressing. The no red meat only turkey. The no bread or carbs. They would work I would lose a few pounds and then I would go somewhere and see cake. You guessed it I would eat cake. My doctor put me on a diet one time and said quit smoking at the same time. I didn't lose a pound at that diet.

So I oped for the sleeve 4/25/14 I have been told how you can diet like my son did. You should go to the gym and work out. You need to change what you were eating. I want to scream I have done that for 45 years and it did not work. Call me what you want but I LOVE food!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I since having the sleeve have lost from 259 pre surgery to 210 today. I am proud of that and at 4'9" tall it is hard to hide 259 pounds.

I love rotisserie chicken and pork chops. I have pinned recipes from pintrest for my sleeve. I gave up soda ( would drink a twelve pack a day). I do drink one glass of sweet tea a day. Other than that powerade zero or g2 Gatorade. I love my new life that this surgery is giving me. It was a slow start but I will get there.

Amen.

If it were as easy as diet and exercise, I wouldn't have needed the surgery.

I am finding that, already, that my yearnings for the "good stuff" are lessening. Not gone, but it is not the agony of the pre-opp diet.

Losing weight was easy. Keeping it off, not so much. I hope the sleeve will help me accomplish that part more successfully. Surgery is day after tomorrow-can't wait to start the journey with you all.