10 Year Surgiversary update for 2024

It's been a whole 10 years! My VSG (Vertical Sleeve Gastrectomy) surgery was April 23rd in 2014 but my journey started in August of 2013. If you know the process, then you know, it takes a lot to make it to the surgery date, or should I say, to even be approved for a surgery date. My rise to being overweight was an oversight on my part by far. I had my first child at 17, in 1998 at around 200lbs and did nothing to repair my body, wrongly assuming since I'm young, I will tighten back up with basically no effort. Boy was I wrong! After my daughter was born, out of the 40lbs gained, I kept 20lbs which began the downfall. Soon over time, I became less active running around with my friends and spent more time at home being "MOM". I was weighing around 235lbs around high school graduation time. And thus, the spiral continued..