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I am "the friend". You know her, the one with the most popular girlfriends, the beautiful gals who are terrific and fun and wonderful and they have the exceptional best friend usually either ugly or fat, sometimes both...I am the exceptional best friend. The fat one. The girl with the great personality. I didn't mind it. I do have a great personality and it landed me and incredible group of friends and a mega hottie hubby. I am also funny. Funny and fat. I am ok with fat. Most of the time I would remind people that I am 300 lbs of all kinds of sexy. I am wondering how will I now describe myself.
I have had several people ask my husband questions like..."that's your wife?" He always responds with, " jelous, I know, I get it all the time, but she is all mine!" We have known each other since we were 11 and he has seen me through it all. He has loved me through it all. Decideing to have this surgery was about a 3 year process. First off, I love to eat! I mean really love it. Savoring every morsel I put in my mouth..well every morsel from the 3rd peice. The first two were just to get me warmed up to appreciate the 3rd!
I choose this aspect for the health. Okay, being healthy is a 75% shot at what I chose this for. 25% is definitly going for the hottie look myself before I die!
My story is this...family is fat, Mom had the surgery, but waited too long in life and was broken before surgery. Now she is just broken but thinner. I have a fantastic life and my weight has never hindered me from doing anything. Okay, maybe from riding some roller coasters, but not for long. I love my life, my jobs, my friends and my family. I don't have any health problems yet and I am hoping to avoid getting them. I started to get a little high blood pressure and that is gone now, one week later. I am really excited to take this journey and I hope that I will meet some more wonderful people here on this site.
I had my surgery last Wednesday and I am doing great so far. RNY date: 8-13-08. Started out at 300 hoping to get to 150.
Thats my story.
