nycaela
Hi my name is Micaela. I'm 23 years old. I will be having the RNY gastric bypass done on August 8th.
I have struggled with my weight my whole life. I can remember being in elementary school and always being the biggest kid. And i was tall too. So I always stuck out. My mother always was trying to get me to do these different fad diets all through elementary school and my step-dad would have me walk on the treadmill for long periods of time. My punishment for when I got in trouble was exercise.
When I entered junior high I had gained quite a bit of weight. I was an emotional eater and when my father passed away I couldn't seem to stop eating. When I started high school, I maintained my weight at 260 then I slowly started gaining and made my way to 280. After graduation, I moved to Wisconsin to live with my grandma. While there, I lost 25 pounds and I felt great and I had a great support system. I was always going for walks and I was eating right. Then I moved back to Washington. The summer I moved home I was pretty much sick the whole summer. I couldn't eat anything. I was able to keep things down I just did not feel well. But I hadn't lost weight, I was always somewhere 265 and 270.
The next summer I started a new job. I work the 3p to 11p shift. I truly love it. That's when i really started gaining weight. In the two years I have been working there i gained 50 pounds!! I couldn't believe it and I was so down on myself. One day, I had gotten in the scale and saw the number 317. And I was dumbfounded. I couldn't believe I weighed that much. That's when I said I can't take it anymore! I'm going to do something about this because this is completely unacceptable.
So in March 2013, I decided I was going to have gastric bypass. And I'm so happy and excited to be doing it. No one pushed me to do it and it was my choice to do this. Though some people don't agree with what I'm doing, I'm doing this for me. Not anyone else. I'm lucky I don't have diabetes or any other types of health problems. But I knew if I didn't do anything I was going to have some major health problems.
