The last you heard from me I was planning on participating in 2018 miles in 2018. Which I completed. My husband and I ran in the 2018 participated in the Disney Princess 10k (which I also finished) other than that it was a quite for the first 6 months of 2018 then BAM! Big life decision happened.
After helplessly watching my weight climb, even though I was eating properly, exercising and doing everything right I made a decision to investigate Bariatric surgery.
My past medical history and co-morbidities were in control, however my weight had become a constant issue and had to be dealt with. An appointment to meet a bariatric surgeon - Anthony McCluney, MD - Assistant Director, Steward Center for Weight Control was made.
Dr McCluney asked me one simple question, why did I wait so long. I was knocking on the door to age 50 and how many more years was I going to keep doing what I was doing a try, fail, try, fail, try and fail yet again. I told him that I wanted to try to do it on my own, and his reply was “and how is that working out for you?”
Harsh, right? Nope...exactly what I needed to hear. He was right. I have battled my weight for a lifetime and always ended up back to where I started with another failed attempt.
I took all the information he gave me, and a list of lab work in case I decided to go forward and made the decision to go forward.
I will stop here and continue next week on another episode of as the stomach turns....
