WazzuCoug
Member
Hi, my name is Ryan. I'm pre-op at the moment with expected surgery in May/June time frame. I've found several interesting posts and insights and I'm glad I found this community.
My story:
I started gaining weight soon after I was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and started college. The "freshman 15" was more like a "freshman 30." Over the years I gradually increased, with periods of loss or maintaining here and there. I had a couple stretches of time where I was doing quite well and was a real "gym rat" and started to get quite strong and healthy, but injury or some other life issues came up, and I would fall off the horse, and finally I didn't get back on. My career is very sedentary job - sitting in an office, sitting at meetings, sitting, sitting, sitting. My highest weight was 320, my weight at my first pre-op weigh in was 307. I'm currently at 305. I don't have a specific weight goal, but my body fat goal is 17% and then maintaining that between 15 and 20. Currently, I'm at 34% with 105lbs of fat and 100lbs SMM. Reaching my goal would put my weight around 190-ish.
My insurance doesn't require a weight management plan pre-op, so I've been going through the required steps (Nutritionist, Physical Therapist, medical evaluation, psychological evaluation, surgeon evaluation) fairly quickly. I have some travel that I need to do prior to surgery, so that pushed things out a bit, but I'm quite excited to have this tool to combat my obesity and get on a healthy track.
Why I'm doing it:
For myself: to get off as many medications as I can, if not all; to go for longer, strenuous hikes; get off my CPAP (hopefully) so I can travel without it and go camping again; to reduce the chance for regain by making better choices with my new internal organ arrangement;
For my family: to shoot hoops with my daughter for longer periods of time; to do more hiking and birdwatching with my wife; to be able to work on more projects on our hobby farm without being too tired or weak
There are other reasons, but those are the things that hit home the most for me. I know I have to make radical changes with my relationship with food and get back into exercise like I used to do to reach my ultimate goals.
Anyway, "hello" and I look forward to sharing and seeking support at times, and perhaps providing some support after I go through the rest of the process.
Cheers,
Ryan
My story:
I started gaining weight soon after I was honorably discharged from the Marine Corps and started college. The "freshman 15" was more like a "freshman 30." Over the years I gradually increased, with periods of loss or maintaining here and there. I had a couple stretches of time where I was doing quite well and was a real "gym rat" and started to get quite strong and healthy, but injury or some other life issues came up, and I would fall off the horse, and finally I didn't get back on. My career is very sedentary job - sitting in an office, sitting at meetings, sitting, sitting, sitting. My highest weight was 320, my weight at my first pre-op weigh in was 307. I'm currently at 305. I don't have a specific weight goal, but my body fat goal is 17% and then maintaining that between 15 and 20. Currently, I'm at 34% with 105lbs of fat and 100lbs SMM. Reaching my goal would put my weight around 190-ish.
My insurance doesn't require a weight management plan pre-op, so I've been going through the required steps (Nutritionist, Physical Therapist, medical evaluation, psychological evaluation, surgeon evaluation) fairly quickly. I have some travel that I need to do prior to surgery, so that pushed things out a bit, but I'm quite excited to have this tool to combat my obesity and get on a healthy track.
Why I'm doing it:
For myself: to get off as many medications as I can, if not all; to go for longer, strenuous hikes; get off my CPAP (hopefully) so I can travel without it and go camping again; to reduce the chance for regain by making better choices with my new internal organ arrangement;
For my family: to shoot hoops with my daughter for longer periods of time; to do more hiking and birdwatching with my wife; to be able to work on more projects on our hobby farm without being too tired or weak
There are other reasons, but those are the things that hit home the most for me. I know I have to make radical changes with my relationship with food and get back into exercise like I used to do to reach my ultimate goals.
Anyway, "hello" and I look forward to sharing and seeking support at times, and perhaps providing some support after I go through the rest of the process.
Cheers,
Ryan
