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Being Fat Was Killing Me

(There was no doubt about it.~I couldn’t deny it any longer~It was a fact that was very obvious.} I was not healthy. My health was being affected because of my large stomach that seemed to keep growing. My doctor diagnosed me with several different maladies. The fact that was obese was at the bottom of the problems. I was told if I didn’t do something about it now, I would die before my time.

I couldn’t hide the fact that I was obese from anyone. The question was, What was I going to do to change? It took me years to get my body into the shape I was, but I didn’t have years to fix it. I was lost and didn’t know where to turn when I went searching on the internet and found something called the biggest loser forum, where there were chat rooms full of people who were fighting a weight loss battle of their own. The site gave me some hope that I wasn’t alone in my desire to lose weight and that there was someone out there that could help me. The internet did not lack for advice on what a person in my situation should do. I cleared the hurdle of having to choose to lose the weight and was ready to commence my journey.

The first thing I did was to go to my doctor. With the assistance of the doctor I was able to figure out what I was going to try to do to get rid of the weight. Both my doctor and myself decided that I needed to take care of my weight issue now. The first approach that I was going to take was the oldest one out there, control what I eat and start a workout plan to use more energy than I took in. I stuck to the diet despite my cravings for all the foods that I was not allowed to eat any more, and I did my exercises faithfully every day, even the six pack ab exercises, that were on the video I had found in the attic. I wished it was different, but the weight was not disappearing even when I did everything I was supposed to. A half a year went by, and I was still as fat as when I was started and I began to feel like a failure. I had to do something different, but I was unsure of what to do.

I went back to my doctor and told him it was time for me to find a way to learn how to lose weight fast, and what would he suggest that I try next to accomplish this goal since I had run out of ideas. I began my new quest where my first attempt had begun, at my medical professionals office. His next idea was gastric bypass surgery. The smaller stomach meant I would consume less food at one time but would eat more often. Any time someone cuts into your body there are dangers involved. It would be more dangerous for me to stay as fat as I was. Delaying taking action was no longer an option that I could consider because of my poor health. I took this information back to my family and we decided that I would go head with the surgery.

The morning of the surgery came and I was wheeled into the operating room. The operation was successful and I spent a short time in bed at the hospital. It took several weeks to start my recovery. During that time I could hardly eat anything. I started a fitness regimen as soon as I felt strong enough to do it. There was no stopping me this time. It was successful this time. The weight was disappearing quickly. I was losing over ten pounds a month because of the gastric bypass procedure. I kept up the average of over ten pounds a month through my second anniversary of the surgery. I had gotten my body back to a more normal status on the charts in my physicians office. I have lowered my blood pressure, and my diabetes is under control. I am no longer working out by myself, I have been joined by other people that I love. My life was saved by the surgery and I look forward to many years of happiness.

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