My Journey To A Better Lifestyle

[Melanie Calvert Benton (a.k.a,) "Dahlia Patton"]

For quite sometime I have needed to learn better eating habits and lose weight to where I feel better. Fifty for me seems, well.. a life time. I love to do outdoor things and gradually over the years, my mobility has suffered due to chronic health concerns and a growing weight problem that I have ignored. I have tried several weight loss programs with little success, losing the weight and gradually putting it back and PLUS several pounds. The weight was enough to tire and depress me. I was more or less forced to do something drastic about it. The first of 2009 I attended a Bariatric Weight Loss seminar in order to get answers and see what I could do to get rid of these un-wanted pounds. (There is a wonderful woman under all these extra pounds.) I reckon some of you out there are wondering why I am writing about this, well I want to keep the group informed, there may well be someone else needing some advice.

I decided to undergo gastric bypass surgery, no not the Lap Band , but the RNY ( Roux-en- Y) where they do non-reversible surgery to attach part of you smaller "stomach pouch" to your small intestines, where you don't absorb all the calories you take in. I am scheduled for sometime in August and would appreciate your prayers, I'll need them. As I progress, I will fill you in. Thanks!