Where do I begin?

I'm starting this blog to document my weight loss after having Lap RNY surgery on January 31, 2008.

If a year ago anyone said to me that I was going to have WLS, I would have said they were crazy. Yes, I was one of those nay sayers - it's not that I thought that surgery was the easy way out - but more that I knew that you still had to restrict your eating and eat well. That always led me to the question why would I want to go through surgery - I should be able to do it myself, right? Nope, I was wrong.

Let's go back about a year ago - you know that time of the year that you've failed yet another diet started with another New Year. At this point I was now having problems with my obesity, not the typical high blood pressure, diabetes, etc - but soley from mobility and pain from carrying these extra people on my body. I felt like I had lost my life, basically all I could do was make it through the work week and a small amount around the house. I was exhausted all the time.

So discouraged and angry at myself for this failure and what I was doing to myself once again - I turned to the internet. I wasn't really looking for a way to lose weight, more for inspiration - I hunted for all the before and after pictures I could find just to see that it could be done. There was one common thing that I started to see - a vast majority of the long-term successful people were weightloss surgery patients.

I opened my mind a crack, still not thinking about WLS surgery being the right thing for me and actually started to do some indepth research on the internet. I discovered that it is way more than just restricting what you eat in any of the many types of surgeries