An Introduction

I am a 40 something woman who has dealt with weight issues in my adult life.  I was never a fat kid.  I only started putting on weight in my late 20's.  I lost 75 pounds following Weight Watchers from July 2000 to September 2001.  I maintained within 10 pounds of my goal weight for about 5 years until I quit smoking in January 2006.  At that time I esentially traded one addiction for another, smoking for food.  I alway used to say I'd give up smoking before I'd give up my carbs and apparently I wasn't lying. 

Anyway, I began thinking about weight loss surgery in the last year since my weight has gotten totally out of control.  However, I didn't want to admit it to anyone because, in my mind, I was admitting failure.  Not that everyone who knows me couldn't see I had failed at keeping the weight off.  I don't know.  Admitting to anyone though that I wanted/needed weight loss surgery was just hard and embarrasing.

Then came earlier this month.  I found out I need sinus surgery and will max out my deductible and either max out or come very close to maxing out my annual out of pocket expenses.  Without mentioning weight loss surgery to anyone, I called my insurance company.  The guy told me I'd be covered at 100% once my out of pocket maximum had been met.  Wow!  Surgery for free.  Who could pass that up?  I started by telling my best friend and then my mom and sister.  Everyone was SO supportive!  After I got up the nerve to tell the most important people in my life, I found out what the guy at my insurance told me wasn't correct.  However, I'm still planning to do surgery regardless.  I'm still waiting to figure out exactly what bariatric insurance coverage I do have, but I've come to find out it may be cheaper, believe it or not, to pay the cash price and I'm prepared to do that if necessary.

I'm very early in the process and plan to use this blog to document it all throughtout my journey and beyond.  I cannot wait to get out of this fat body!

~Amy