The Dietitian Visit

My doctor put in a referral for me to see a dietitian at the Nutrition Care Clinic at Evans Army Hospital at Fort Carson. I went eagerly to find out what I could do to become healthy again and to one day be able to conceive. Little did I know, my dietitian was also the bariatric dietitian. We began discussing options when the fact that I qualify for bariatric surgery arose. I have high cholesterol and a BMI over 40. According to Army standards I qualify to have any one of the bariatric surgeries done at one of their facilities. I wanted to get started immediately and came to the realization that if I don't do something drastic about my weight soon, I could die from weight related problems in the future. I want to be able to run around with my children one day, and I surely want to live long enough to watch them grow with my husband. She put in my referral to general surgery that day.