Being overweight all of my life, my life has been obsessed with trying to lose the weight.  I have been on just about every diet you may have heard of and probably some you have not.  Every diet I tried would work while I was on the diet, then I'd gain back anything I had lost and then some.  The lowest weight I recall being was 180 pounds in high school.  I have progressively gained weight every year since then.  The more I'd diet, the more I'd gain. 

 

On March 17, 2004, I underwent gastric bypass surgery, weighing in at 331 pounds.  It took over 2 years for me to make this drastic decision, and hopefully as you read through the pages of this website, you'll learn more about me and why I chose this direction in my life.  I can tell you this much, I'm 5 weeks out from my surgery, I've lost 39 pounds, and I am completely satisfied and happy with the decision I made.

 

If you are interested in weight loss surgery (WLS), I highly recommend the surgeons I chose at the Surgical Weight Control Center,   Dr. Barry Fisher and his partner Dr. James Atkinson.  They have a website you can view at www.bandandbypass.com.  Dr. Atkinson was my surgeon and I can't say enough good things about him.  The first step is a mandatory seminar, held twice a month by the doctors.  It was there that I finally understood why diets were making me get heavier and heavier.  I thought I could lose the weight on my own, and I could with a LOT of hard work, but I would never be able to keep it off.  I realized at that seminar, that this was the only way I could lose weight AND keep it off.