Cha - Can I be a bit nosey?
I'm impressed that you did it on your own! Is this the first diet you went on, or did something finally click for you? If so, what? I was considering trying on my own, but I went to a WLS seminar, and found the idea very depressing. Basically, the doctor said that trying on my own, I had less than a 3% chance of keeping it off. That, and I've tried to loose this weight twice before, and kept falling off the bandwagon. Sometimes, I think that if I got it off, maybe I would then want to keep it off and work harder? I don't know, but was wondering what it was that gave you the willpower/ability to do it.
When you say you'd have wanted the surgery... is that just for the diet part, or for the long term maintence part? Now that you have the weight off, are you glad you didn't have the surgery? Or, is it harder to stay at this weight?
Again, sorry for being nosey!
My insurance will pay for 50% of the surgery IF I go on 6 months of medical diet... and at the end of that, it needs to be shown that diet doesn't work for me. I'm trying to figure out what to do... Part of me wants to go on the diet, but not work hard at it (if I do too well, then they won't pay for the surgery unless I start regaining weight, and I'm tired of yo-yoing). Part of me wants to go on the diet and really try and see if I can avoid surgery. And, another part of me says that I shouldn't put myself through the insurance hoops, take out a larger loan and get the surgery now.
Anyways... any insight to how you did it would be helpful.
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PS- you said you had 5 kids back to back... you do have major stretch marks? IF so, what is PS going to do with that? I had twins, so I have MAJOR stretch marks. My tummy looks like a pink zebra. LOL!