Hello,
Here is my story. I battled obesity all of my life my mom and dad were drug addicts and were not present in my formation and most certainly not champions for my health. Since they were users I made a vow and promise to myself that I would never be a substance abuser but ultimately became a food abuser. As the years go by I get married and the pressures of marriage, not being able to conceive, and work stress led me to gain the most weight of my life. I topped out at 347. My wife encouraged me to get surgery and I qualified and had gastric sleeve surgery with Dr. Nicholson in 2014. At the time I had planted a church and life became exciting again. The surgery went smoothly the only real complication was the onset of extreme gout which was awful did not know it was gout for the first two weeks and could not even walk AWFUL. The surgery started working! I lost 87 pounds in the first 5 months. My wife became jealous and pulled away, stress from my full time job and being a church planter set it and it became an uphill battle. I started cheating my diet in small ways and realized I could get away with sliders, and other cheats I knew I was not supposed to. in 2015 the church plant failed my ministerial journey of 15 years ended and my marriage had hit an all time low we had lost the love and we were just roommates. Because of the change from my wife and my inability to use large amounts of food to cope I turned for the first time in my life to alcohol. By the beginning of 2016 I had hit a plataue and was not following the plan little did I know that 2016 would go so rough. My wife of 8 years had 4 affairs with 4 different men and abruptly filed for divorce and we parted ways. I was not equipped to deal with this and so I gained weight. I am currently back around 310 pounds. I healed from that tramautic experience and recently got remarried. I have started the lifestyle change to recapture the hopes and dreams I had in 2014 when I first had the surgery. I am just wondering if completely failed and my surgery has been rendered ineffective due to me walking through the stress and failure over the last 4 years and if there is a way to return and recapture the weight loss.
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