Origin Story

So let me take you back today to my origin of how I became a sleever (well soon to be sleever anyway).

Turning point in my life August 2010, Lady Gaga concert.  Waiting in line to get into the show, Virgin Mobile is there taking Polaroid pictures of those who want it as a free souvenir right....so the couple in front of my boyfriend and I get their snap taken, I move to avoid being in the back ground of their photo, I avoid photos like the plague.  However, I somehow didn't move further enough away, because the twerp in front of us says to his girlfriend....and I will never forget these words or how he said it for as long as I live "ugh, there's a big fat lady in the back of ours"  My heart stopped, I was defeated and depleted right there, I began to cry trying to hid it from that guy and my boyfriend, not an easy task let me tell you.  God bless my boyfriend Jesse, he is the greatest, he was there and comforted me, and went to confront the guy, but I didn't want the hassle.  We did end up taking a picture with the Virgin Mobile crew, and I will try and scan or take a picture of it to put up on here, but needless to say my evening wasn't the same as it could have been without someone being a total ass like that kid was.

However, even though it still hurts, his comment is what gave me the drive to do something about how I look and how I feel inside and out.  I began researching different surgical options from the gastric bypass to the lap band.  They all seemed so extreme to me at the time.  The cost and the maintenance of the band, I wasn't sure if surgery would be the answer for me. 

So time went on, and I forgot about the A-hole at the concert and I continued on, trying to eat healthier walking to work when it wasn't too cold out.  Things like that.  Then I reconnected with an old friend of mine, who like me has also battled with weight, and I told her about how I was looking into possibly getting the lap band.  She then told me about the newest procedure the sleeve that she was going to be going for, but that she was on a waiting list to have it covered by our provincial health care.  I asked her some questions about it, and started to proceed to speak to a doctor about it, but no reply from the doctors office.....strange right, but that didn't stop me, I just looked forward and eventually found Weight Loss Forever, while doing a Better Business Bureau search on another company.  I contacted WLF and went through their intake procedure and that pretty much leads me to where I am today awaiting surgery date!

I guess really I should thank the twit who was so insensative to others around him, to give me that push, that drive to take my life back.....now I'm looking forward to the day when someone calls me a 'skinny bitch' instead!!!.....lol

Cheers all!