Bruce Jr.
Hi there anyone who is bored enough to read my profile,
I am a one time athlete who's slow metabolism, hypothyroidism and less than stellar eating and activity habits have all but destroyed my body. Though I turned a corner long ago and have learned to eat healthier, I have not managed to control my relentless weight gain.
My parents and sister are to this day very accomplished athletes and I have felt the shame of being the black sheep ever since the first year of University when my growth spurt's end coincided with the end of my high level training around the sport of xc skiing and the beginning of a 15 year obesity rollercoster. My sporting family genes did not help much either since I was adopted.
My career has suffered tremendously. My weight gain played a prominent role in my fall from hot-shot to back-bencher at my Design Engineering Job that had me at times living in Japan, Germany and the US. I know people consider heavy people to be less smart and lazy. Even I fight with this preconception when I look at others that share the same affliction as I do.
I am happily married and have a 5 year old son and a 6 month old daughter. My wife, parents and sister are supportive of my WLS decision but my wife's side of the family is quite against it. It didnt even help change their mind when they realized that I was 100 pounds heavier than what they thought (I guess I hide it better than some). Actually their lack of support does not really bother me, I just have had too much alternative medicine propaganda thrown at me by them. Ever hear of injecting your thighs with pregnant woman urine? I now have. Or try googling Hulda Clark. Quacks R Us as far as I am concerned.
Through a lot of mostly online study I have chosen to have the DS. I feel pretty strongly about the superiority of this WLS to the point that I do not understand why RNY is still performed. I do not mean to imply that people who have had RNY made the wrong decision, for most people here just about any WLS would be the right choice over nothing. Of course ask me about my glowing opinion on DS a year from now and we'll see if I still feel the same way.
I would sign up for a WLS angel but I'm too much of a raging atheist to accept the term:) I suppose I consider myself a skeptic and secular humanist and I hold the freedom of people to choose their own set of beliefs in the highest regard.
I'm to be cut open or "switched" on July 5th, 2007. I'm a bit leery of the whole pain and recovery thing but same goes for being so damn fat.
Well, enough about me. Have a nice day Eh.
