![]() ![]() Don’t think I wasn’t afraid or hesitant but I had utmost respect for my Doctor and I think that is the beginning of the positive process. My experience with Dr Duperier was totally positive. I AM FREE!!! My highest weight was recorded at 420 Pounds : Surgery weight was 380 Pounds Current Weight as of : 162 Pounds Total weight loss: 218 Pounds Hope Marie Cueva But now, I know what it’s like to love myself and be there for me. My daughter taught me life has so much meaning. I been a prisoner in my body and now I know what it is to live for me. You guys have given me the goals and strength to move on in my life. Without you BMI of Texas I would have never reached where I am now. She needs me so much but honestly, I need her so much. I will live longer for my Daughter who is 11 years old and is Autistic. I am so grateful because of this surgery. I have a huge family system and friend support that has guided me through this journey. I will be doing my first half marathon in December with the BMI of Texas staff at the Rock-N-Roll Marathon here in San Antonio. I am no longer on any medications for diabetes, high blood pressure or high cholesterol. Until then I will keep moving and doing what is good for my body & heart. Body Combat is my heart and one day I hope to shadow one song. I shadowed my first class with my Body Attack instructor. They gave me the confidence and the drive. I now take Body Combat, Body Pump & Body Attack. Then finally I started taking classes at Gold’s Gym. Moved up to 20 minutes a day of walking, finally the most I have ever walked is 5 miles. I workout 6 days a week, I started walking at 10 minutes a day. I have no regrets of having this surgery. The BMI of Texas staff has saved my life. This is a place that performs Gastric Bypass, Gastric Sleeve & Lap band surgeries. So in August of 2011 I finally got the courage to go speak to the staff of BMI of Texas. ![]() He was the one I knew that was going to take care of me. That was only for diabetes So here comes Augwhen the decision was made to have the surgery finally, I remembered Dr. I was prescribed 14 different medications. Ortiz felt if it was going to happen, it’s going to happen. I even couldn’t be put to sleep due to my weight. She couldn’t perform a hysterectomy due to my weight. ![]() Even my OB/GYN brought it up because I have endometriosis. She didn’t push me to have it, it was just mentioned. Linda Esquivel also brought up gastric bypass surgery. Years went by I found a new primary Doctor. Did I decide that day to do it? No actually I didn’t. Seger’s seminar way before at the Medical Towers that my PCP recommended that I go to. The more you work at it, the easier things become for you.Gastric Bypass surgery was a decision that was thought of many years ago. But if you do it once, it’s not as hard the next time. “I was afraid to push myself in exercise. “A diet is something you do to lose weight, and then you go back to how you used to eat. “The surgery got me in the right mind-set, but I still had to exercise and eat right to get fit. “Eating healthy and exercising are second nature.” “I’m at a place I really like,” Huber says. His 2006 race schedule is already packed. Last year, Huber placed 26th out of 472 participants in his first triathlon. His stomach has since stretched to fit a normal-size meal, but Huber’s eating habits haven’t regressed: He avoids anything high in fat or sugar, and fuels workouts with protein shakes and tuna sandwiches. Huber was soon biking or running to work every day, and he started lifting weights. “The first time, it took me an hour and a half,” he says. Huber still weighed 450 pounds when he started to ride his bike 7 miles to work. “I realized then that if I didn’t lose some weight, I would die.” Huber opted for gastric bypass surgery in December 2003, which limited his stomach to 6 ounces of food at a time. “I was afraid the stairs were going to fall off the building,” he says. Huber’s weight steadily increased to 547 pounds.Ĭlimbing a creaky set of porch stairs took Huber a harrowing 15 minutes. Following a nasty divorce 10 years ago, Huber hit the comfort food - hard - and ballooned from his high-school weight of 260 pounds.Ī typical Monday Night Football feast consisted of a large pizza, two 2-liter bottles of soda, garlic bread, jalapeño poppers, two beef sandwiches, chips, and beer. ![]()
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