SUBEE'S WEIGHT LOSS JOURNAL
June 2000 My sister and me.
Taken the day before surgery 9/29/99 (206.5 lbs)
I have had a weight problem my whole life.� I have tried one diet after another.� Sometimes I would actually lose weight, but I would eventually gain it all back and then some more.� Everytime a new diet came around I tried it.� Each time I would be hoping that this was the diet that would work.� They all sounded good.� They all made a lot of sense...they just never worked!�
One day my dad told me about a new diet pill he had been taken called Phen-fen.� Well, I was sceptical, since I had taken diet pills before and the most they ever did for me was hype me up like speed.� But I began to see the weight coming off of him, and he wasn't having the nervous side affects so I thought, what the heck....and asked my doctor for some as well.� I have to say that I thought Phen-fen was WONDERFUL!� I trully believed I had found the one thing that would finally free me from the bonds of obesity.� I was on Phen-fen for almost two years and I lost a total of 75 pounds.� In fact, I was 15 pounds away from my goal weight, when the news started telling reports of people dying or having heart problems from it.� So my doctor took me off the drugs and even though I continued to diet and do all that I was doing while on the medication, my weight began to slowly come back on.� So now, here I am today, August 28, 1999 weighing in at 210+ pounds.� Not only is this an unhealthy weight for a normal person, but I also have a condition called pseudotumor cerebri.� This causes pressure to be put on my heart, eyes, ears and head...from my spinal fluid.�
I just found out this past week that the spinal fluid is putting 5 times more than the normal amount of pressure on my heart.� This means I am in danger of congestive heart failure.� But, my neurologist told me before this would ever happen, I will go blind first, because of the pressure on my eyes.� (I have already lost my hearing from the pressure on my ears.)� So, I have been informed that in order to get the pressure lower, I have to lose weight quickly.� The best way he knows how to do this is through weight loss surgery (WSL).
So, here I am, beginning my journal.� I will update it as I move forward in my endevour to have WLS.
