I’ve been waiting until I was a little closer to my upcoming surgery to discuss/announce this with my Norcal family. Well, I would say a week is close enough.
On Monday at 7:30 AM in Fresno I will be undergoing a Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. I will be seeing the same surgeon that did such a wonderful job on our favorite Katie and I am trying to deal with a huge dose of both excitement and fear.
I am comfortable with the idea that it is definitely time to make a huge change in my life for the better. I need to take control of both the motivations behind my eating habits as well as the eating habits themselves Having fought the battle that is run of the mill dieting many times, I have come to the conclusion that is time to haul out some bigger guns. I need some help and I am going to Dr. Boone for that help. I am being provided with a tool which I can use to finally break the up and down cycle that is my weight. Hopefully using this tool as well as getting back into swimming, which I absolutely love, I will take my weight firmly in hand and get control of this problem.
Understand that I was not always a heavy person. I have had my ups and downs throughout my life. I was a pudgy kid but played soccer and lived an active outdoor lifestyle throughout elementary school and junior high which helped to keep control of my weight. In the early years of high school, I played a lot of sports including football, wrestling, track, and swimming and although I was never particularly good at any of them, the two hours of practice daily kept pretty good control over my weight as well. My last bit of high school sports was the Varsity swim team junior year and ended in the photo linked below (Just a word of warning, I’m skinny but I’m in a Speedo). After that it has been all-uphill.
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/swim.jpg
I have dieted numerous times. 2 years ago I took my weight from roughly 330 lbs. To 257 lbs. I fought tooth and nail every step of the way to get my weight that low. I felt great. However, it only took a few slips to start myself back up the path to where I stand today.
I currently weigh 350 lbs. It’s the heaviest that I have ever been. I am afraid for my own well-being and don’t want to leave my wife an early widow. I want to spend another 60 years enjoying time with my beautiful wife as well as all of my fantastic friends. I want to make new friends, and have kids, and have grandkids. I want to drive fast, and learn to fly, and get greasy under cars. I want to own my own business, and provide for my family and live life to its absolute fullest. I want to do everything that I could possibly hope or dream to do and if it takes this chunk of sacrifice to do it than I am more than willing.
I’ll link my current picture below. Beware. I have no shirt on and it is not a pretty sight. I am obese but this gives me a reference point to work from and yes I am extremely embarrassed to post this photo but I want you all to see where I am starting and join me in this process.
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/weight1.jpg
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/weight2.jpg
If you’ve met me personally you know that I am just about the goofiest fun loving person possible. I’m just generally not a serious person. But know that I am serious about the ones I love and just about all of my friends fall into that category. All of you that I’ve had the good fortune of spending some time with and getting to know are absolutely wonderful people and I hope to be standing before you in the next year a changed man. I love you guys.
I’d appreciate all of your thoughts or prayers in my upcoming journey.
Disclaimer: I understand that this is not the chosen path for everyone or even for most people. However this post is not a platform for people to take a stand against Gastric Bypass or to state your opinions about my willpower. Please do not try to make it that. I am asking nicely but understand that in this section of the board I do have teeth and I will not hesitate to use them if I think you are crapping on my journey.
On Monday at 7:30 AM in Fresno I will be undergoing a Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass. I will be seeing the same surgeon that did such a wonderful job on our favorite Katie and I am trying to deal with a huge dose of both excitement and fear.
I am comfortable with the idea that it is definitely time to make a huge change in my life for the better. I need to take control of both the motivations behind my eating habits as well as the eating habits themselves Having fought the battle that is run of the mill dieting many times, I have come to the conclusion that is time to haul out some bigger guns. I need some help and I am going to Dr. Boone for that help. I am being provided with a tool which I can use to finally break the up and down cycle that is my weight. Hopefully using this tool as well as getting back into swimming, which I absolutely love, I will take my weight firmly in hand and get control of this problem.
Understand that I was not always a heavy person. I have had my ups and downs throughout my life. I was a pudgy kid but played soccer and lived an active outdoor lifestyle throughout elementary school and junior high which helped to keep control of my weight. In the early years of high school, I played a lot of sports including football, wrestling, track, and swimming and although I was never particularly good at any of them, the two hours of practice daily kept pretty good control over my weight as well. My last bit of high school sports was the Varsity swim team junior year and ended in the photo linked below (Just a word of warning, I’m skinny but I’m in a Speedo). After that it has been all-uphill.
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/swim.jpg
I have dieted numerous times. 2 years ago I took my weight from roughly 330 lbs. To 257 lbs. I fought tooth and nail every step of the way to get my weight that low. I felt great. However, it only took a few slips to start myself back up the path to where I stand today.
I currently weigh 350 lbs. It’s the heaviest that I have ever been. I am afraid for my own well-being and don’t want to leave my wife an early widow. I want to spend another 60 years enjoying time with my beautiful wife as well as all of my fantastic friends. I want to make new friends, and have kids, and have grandkids. I want to drive fast, and learn to fly, and get greasy under cars. I want to own my own business, and provide for my family and live life to its absolute fullest. I want to do everything that I could possibly hope or dream to do and if it takes this chunk of sacrifice to do it than I am more than willing.
I’ll link my current picture below. Beware. I have no shirt on and it is not a pretty sight. I am obese but this gives me a reference point to work from and yes I am extremely embarrassed to post this photo but I want you all to see where I am starting and join me in this process.
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/weight1.jpg
http://www.omnilith.net/rob/weight/weight2.jpg
If you’ve met me personally you know that I am just about the goofiest fun loving person possible. I’m just generally not a serious person. But know that I am serious about the ones I love and just about all of my friends fall into that category. All of you that I’ve had the good fortune of spending some time with and getting to know are absolutely wonderful people and I hope to be standing before you in the next year a changed man. I love you guys.
I’d appreciate all of your thoughts or prayers in my upcoming journey.
Disclaimer: I understand that this is not the chosen path for everyone or even for most people. However this post is not a platform for people to take a stand against Gastric Bypass or to state your opinions about my willpower. Please do not try to make it that. I am asking nicely but understand that in this section of the board I do have teeth and I will not hesitate to use them if I think you are crapping on my journey.
