He initially decided to lose weight after not being able to fit inside a car.
The combination of eating too much and not moving enough left Lowe weighing 350 pounds when he graduated high school, but “things kind of accelerated” in the couple of years afterwards, he recalled.
"I've been categorized as overweight as long as I can remember," Lowe, seen here in a childhood photo, said.Still, Lowe, who lives in Conroe, Texas, tolerated his weight until two incidents changed everything. The first was a convention he attended for work in 2019 where he was on his feet all day. When he’d get home, he couldn’t feel his legs and was alarmed that they were red and swollen.
Weighing 478 pounds at 5 feet, 9 inches tall, Lowe was declared a good candidate for the procedure. In April 2021, Lowe underwent gastric sleeve surgery, also known as sleeve gastrectomy, at Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center in Texas. The remaining stomach is the size of a banana so it holds less food and increases a patient’s sense of fullness, the group noted.“I would feel it sit there in my stomach and I’m just like, ‘Ugh, I don’t want to eat anymore,’ which is what the point of the surgery was,” he said.Lowe now carefully measures his portions so that they fit plates no bigger than 6 inches in diameter. The surgery required making changes to his diet, including staying away from sugary foods and empty carbs.
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