Hi & Welcome to my website! My name is Tina.
I started my journey to have weight loss surgery
a little over 3 yrs ago. Researching, talking to other people pre- & post-op,
those still in the "thinking about it stage" like me, reading hundreds & hundreds
of profiles, message boards,and researching some more!! Finally, in November
of 2001.. I made my decision. Up until that point, I hadn't told anyone what I was
thinking of doing. Not even my husband. I wanted it to be *my* decision. I
didn't want to hear all the horror stories,or the long drawn out
"my best friends cousins neice's boyfriends moms sisters husbands aunt
had that surgery & she etc etc etc…. ughhhh..


I wanted to hear/read it directly from the sources. I found ObesityHelp.com.
This is by far *the* best website for the honest-to-God truth.
You get everything there; the good, bad & sometimes ugly side of weight loss surgery.
The way I see it, to have weight loss surgery or not is a personal decision.
Now I know not everyone is gonna agree with me, and that’s fine. We're all entitled
to our own opinions. I "personally" feel that this is *my* body. I'm the one who
has to live in it. I'm the one who was struggling everyday just to get out of bed.


The pain sometimes was unbearable. Not to mention the total humiliation/embarrassment
of going out in public. I didn’t feel that anyone should have any say so in what I
did with my body. So, I kept it to myself until I was ready to let everyone in on
*my little secret*. My decision to have Open RNY. My decision to have my
digestive tract altered so that I could lose some of this massive weight that
I had gained over the years. My decision… to live. As the title says.. this is
a journal about me, what I went through before surgery, and how I'm
doing now, almost 1 yr and post-op.