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Originally Posted by htismaqe

I already responded to most of this in my other post but I wanted to specifically address the surgery because even though I'm not proud of it, I'm also not one to hide the fact that I had surgery to resolve my weight problem.

It's a cautionary tale. I eat mostly good foods. My average daily diet was actually a little better than yours in terms of healthy foods. The problem is that, like you, I was consuming about double the amount of those healthy foods per day and didn't think what the excess calories would do to me.

Like you, I continued eating like I did in high school/college without taking into account any of the other mitigating factors that were present at the time. There were so many little things I was doing back then that I didn't even realize it when I stopped doing them. And of course, I was climbing the corporate ladder early in my career as well. 8 hours days turned into 10, then 12, and then sometimes even 16. I had to travel a lot.

I never really gave it any thought until about 4 years ago. I saw a picture of myself and almost didn't know who I was. Like I said, I was 140 when I graduated college. I was 180 when I got married for the 2nd time.

After 20 years of all the things I described above, I weighed 285 pounds. I was making good, conscious decisions about food most of the time, especially later in that period but I was simply eating too many calories a day.

So yeah, my problems were pretty drastic. At least bad enough that I felt the need to have 3/4 of my stomach removed, which is what I did.

Again, I'm not proud of it but I'm also not going to hide it. It's part of who I am. And I''m glad I did. I weigh the same now, 3 months from my 23rd anniversary, as I did when I got married.

A friend of mine had the band surgery for that, dude dropped 100lbs in the snap of a finger.