Welcome to my journey! I can guarantee you that this will be harder for me to do than anything I have ever done before, and I want to be able to look back on this time and see just how far I have come.
Let's consider this the starting line. After all, everyone has to start somewhere.
My name is Jenelle. I am 25 years old, and when I started this journey in February of 2015, I weighed 392.2 pounds, the heaviest I have ever been in my life.
I have always been a heavy person. I can blame it on genetics, I can blame it anything I want to, but the fact is...I am a food addict. Not just a person who loves to eat, but an actual addict. Every forkful of pasta that I eat is equal to a junkie injecting heroin into their veins. I know I have a problem, and I have tried to fix it in the past. I have been on every diet conceivable, even the dangerous ones:
-No dairy, corn, nuts, or wheat
-Atkins
-South Beach
-Weight Watchers
-Starvation (went through a phase in High School where I wouldn't eat breakfast or lunch and would only eat dinner)
-Paleo
-Pills
-Injections
-Liquid diets
As I said, I've tried it all. With every diet I managed to lose a little bit, but gained it all back and then some. I'm at a point where I just can't do it by myself anymore.
In February I made the decision to have Gastric Vertical Sleeve surgery. The Gastric Sleeve surgery is a weight loss surgery where the majority of your stomach is removed, leaving only about a banana sized pouch of your original stomach.
The thought of this surgery is scary for anyone, but I need to be unable to physically eat more than a certain amount of food in order to lose the life threatening amount of weight on my body.
So, there you have it. This is my journey from Morbidly Obese to happy and healthy. I want this to be a forum where I can post not only my successes and hurdles, but to post recipes that I've tried and tips for a healthier lifestyle, as I experience them first hand.
Enjoy the journey!
Jenelle
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