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ilaura314's Blog
My Story hmm. where to begin. the beginning i guess. well...i've been "the fat kid" for about as long as i can remember. it became a real problem in elementary school when i started having horrific asthma attacks. the only real solution was a drug called prednisone. for those who aren't familiar with it...it's a steroid...it's actually quite horrible stuff. one of the biggest side effects is insatiable hunger and weight gain. ever since then i've just been....big. no diet attempts were ever successful long term. i tried just about everything. finally, this past fall, i decided that enough was enough. i was tired of settling. i was tired of allowing myself to be treated poorly because of my size. i was tired of bad relationships that i wouldn't leave because i believed i couldn't do better...because of my size. on top of that, i was starting to HURT. my joints were no longer ok with carrying the extra weight. diabetes, heart disease, high cholesterol, and high blood pressure reign supreme in my family. and i decided that it was time to do something before i had any of those problems. and so my journey began. after much research, neverending testing, and lots of frustration, i was banded on 5-14-07. so here i go, let the journey begin. |
