Arnulfo
I guess my story is I had been gaining weight more and more as the last 13 year. I have been gaining it since I was about 23, that’s when I stopped working out and started gaining weight. Before I gained weight I was about 5'10 and weighed 195lbs and worked out like almost every day, I benched 315lbs, squatted 425lbs, ran the 40 yard dash in 4.9 seconds, I was in good condition,...then one day got into a accident hurt my back destroyed the only car I had and that’s when life started with gaining weight. I never really had a problem with gaining weight until I got above 300lbs then I started to notice things. Well fast forward to about May 2006, I weighed myself and it said 398lbs!!!! OMG!!! That was Ridiculous, I was like this is not good, changed my eating habits right their, small portions, baked food, no sodas! Still no exercise! Fast forward to June 2006 a month later, I had this friend of mine John who just got hired but we got along great we both love Video Games, Electronics, Movies, Computers; we could talk all day and get no work done!! He was extremely over weight. We would walk down stairs and he would be horrible out of breath, I remember a few times I was in the restroom and I could here him come in because he would sound extremely out of breath their. I used to worry about him allot. I used to think man I do not want to be like that, I am over weight but damn I can breathe at least, well one day I was sitting at my desk and for about 30 to 40 seconds my Heart started palpitating and I almost blacked out. Let’s just say that scared the you know what out of me and scheduled a Doctors appointment. He fixed me up on High Blood Pressure meds and ran all the test, luckily my Cholesterol was good. In June we got a early call that John died of a Heart attack Saturday morning! I was devastated; I could not believe he was gone. I was so scared about my own health. I continued to see my Doctor and limit my portions and still no exercise. My friend at work who go the RNY surgery kept poking at me and telling me do the surgery, do the surgery so 2 and a half months later on September 13th I went to the weight loss seminar and the Hospital approved me for the surgery and I weighed 381lbs that night and I went to a support group meeting that night also, lets just say I was motivated to lose weight on my own before the insurance company approved the surgery. I immediately incorporated exercise in my new diet and proceeded to do all the studies and appointments prescribed by the Weight loss program my Doctor had. September 13th I weighed 381lbs, October 15th I weighed 375lbs, then on my pre op visit on the November 15th I weighed 369 lbs, 10 days after my surgery on November 27th I weighed 349lbs. John I miss you and I thank you for saving my life Buddy, you will be in my Heart and thoughts always.
