So how'd you loose that weight?

I have gotten many messages on how I lost weight.  I think everyone suffers with their weight.  Sometimes people even want to gain it!  Lets see there are many ways I have lost weight!  For one year I did atkins!  I ate 25 carbs a day and worked out twice a day.  The YMCA Downtown San Antonio was my home.  Then I finished my last two years of college and got in a relationship and gained it all back.  I have tried jenny craig, weight watchers,  ha even one time in college my friend kathleen and I did that thing where you drink that nasty lemon drink!!!  We lasted two days.  You name it I have tried it.  My brother guy was really the inspiration.  My brother guy had weight loss surgery.  Gastric sleeve is the name of the surgery.  Meaning that they go in and cut 85 percent of your stomach out and throw it away lol I never wanted to do surgery because I was embarrassed by it.  My brother lost over 200 pounds and looks smoking hot!  My mother one time asked me if I would do it.  I got in a big fight with her and was soo upset by it.  A year later and weighing my heightest I have ever had of 261 I decided that I had to make a change.

So we found belite!  Belite offers weightloss surgery for way cheaper then the United States they offer it Tijuana Mexico and Juarez... Yep Juarez the most dangerous city in Mexico lol.  They pick you up at the airport and then take you across the boarder and take you to a hopsital that is for the embassy.  I know sounds freaking crazy nuts!  But I decided I was going to do it and my mom decided she was going to do it to!  We had enough of dealing with weight.     My husband or fiancee at the time was about to deploy to Iraq and thought I was crazy for doing it but supported me!

On March 11 I had gastric sleeve.  You have to do a diet for two weeks of no carbs then liquid after surgery for two weeks then slowly can eat.   Many people say that weightloss surgery is a easy route! I laugh at that.  I know many people who have had the lab band, gastric bypass, and the sleeve and guess what they gained it all back!  There is nothing easy about it!   Cutting 85 percent of your stomach out hmmm doesn't sound easy to me!  Sounds pretty damn brave if you ask me.  Weight loss surgery has been a big tool for me.  The fact in the matter is that its just a tool and you also hit weeks where you don't loose weight and you have hit the gym.  You have to change the way you eat and think about food!  Nothing easy about it!  Alot of the time eating is very mental and you have to work on that part yourself! But it has saved my life!

It really hit me that I needed it when I went to visit Ryan in Balitmore I got on the plane and the seat belt barely fit! can you imagin how awful and embarassed I felt!! I'm dying to get on one now.  I write this for people who want to know about my  weight loss or who are to scared and want information! 

I think we think of Mexico as this crazy dangerous place.  It was the nicest hosptial that I have ever been to in my life.  The service was beyond anything that I have experienced in my life.  It's been a year and almost a half my mom has lost more then 65 pounds and I have lost around 105.  The most important goals though haven't been on that scale.  The most important things that I have gained are actually things I can do in the gym!  I can run a mile,  I can bike for hours,  I can do a stair stepper longer then my husband!!! who is very fit!  I used a trainer in San Antonio (I call her my Julian Michaels)  She told me I can do anything!  I believe her!  The truth of the matter is there is no easy answer out there but there are alot of tools!  If you take the tools and make smarter choices you can change your life.

I don't go screaming about weightloss surgery on facebook because I think people have different ways of loosing weight.  I also thought people may look down on me for it! But I kind of wanted to just help anyone whoever thought about doing it and was too scared!  I