![]() I am a health professional, so I was incredibly interested in the presentations on the different types of surgery offered. I attended a group seminar, where you are weighed before you sit down and they lay the risks and benefits out on the line. At the end when I popped it in the post, it had forced me to evaluate what I was prepared to sacrifice to extend my life and better my health. As part of the referral process you fill out a 10 page questionnaire, which is really investigative, and at times felt confronting. The public health system process is a tick box process. She was incredibly supportive and referred me to my local DHB. I was lucky enough to have watched Melissa and Tara’s transformations – and made an appointment with my GP to consider bariatric surgery. I had such an unhealthy relationship with food that I couldn’t tackle this in a normal way. And one day I finally figured out that the reason I wasn’t succeeding. I tried Weight Watchers and other weight loss programs at various times over the years. Then I got married, had babies and became a stay at home mum. I was eating my feelings, one block of chocolate at a time. By the time I was 18 my weight had ballooned to over 90 kilos. It was the one thing in my life that I could control now. Six years of bad eating, terrible food association, emotional, physical and mental abuse took its toll. I was already age 11 and the damage had been done. Except I had an incredibly astute, compassionate teacher who observed my eating habits and starting sharing his lunch with me each day. The appeal of eating food that she had purposefully left for me to eat that had expired weeks ago almost became my reality. Being deprived of food, then binge eating practically destroyed my metabolism. She would starve me for two days and then let me eat junk food as treat. She created an unhealthy image of food for me. I was a healthy weight for my age, but next to her I looked chubby. She put me on a diet before I turned seven. I gained a stepmother who was a size four childless woman with an eating disorder. ![]() I demolished Melissa’s blog and that of my best friend Tara Sutherland – Allergic to Sugar It was great being able to gain different perspectives and insights. There is a hunger (how ironic that is that the most apt word) when contemplating surgery to read as many different experiences as possible. I knew how valuable these bariatric posts are for others deciding whether or not to take the leap. When Melissa first asked me to do a guest post I jumped at the chance. My name is Mel and I had Roux En Y gastric bypass surgery on Wednesday 29th March 2017. She got the writing bug and was happy for me to publish her piece, I’m so pleased to be able to share Mel’s story here with you today. I have something really special for you today Dear Readers! My lovely friend Mel recently had gastric bypass surgery and I said if she had the urge to write about it and wanted to share her story to let me know. ![]()
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