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I've been overweight as long as I can remember. I've thought about WLS for years, and I have close friends and work colleagues who have had great success. My biggest hurdle to getting to this point was my head. I always told myself (and others) "I should be able to do it on my own." Of course I tried (Weight Watchers, trainers, Weight Watchers, group meetings with a nutritionist, Weight Watchers, low carb, WW....) and I would always do well... for awhile. Once that first 50 pounds came off I would lose motivation and allow some excuse to stop me.
Knowing that my insurance would pay for surgery, I started to think about this opportunity more seriously. It was a conversation with my counselor that finally turned that switch in my head. She asked "Why NOT?" and when I gave my standard reply "I should be able to lose weight on my own." She said "No, you think you would be successful if you had surgery and that SCARES you." I slowly started to cry and over the next days and weeks I started to realize that just might be the case. That is when I made the choice to stand in the fact that I AM WORTH IT and that I owe it to me to be the best version of myself I can be.
I have a great life- wonderful, loving, and FUN friends and family; a challenging professional job that I love with a great company; interesting hobbies and goals- I love to read (and am a member of a great Book Club), I enjoy watching movies, I travel every chance I get (in the past year I've been to Seattle, Denver, Salt Lake City, and Lake Tahoe on vacation and Portland, Sacramento, LA, and Redding for work) and I play a MEAN game of Scrabble. It's time to work on my health! I look forward to the journey and embrace the challenges I face.
