I'm 33 yrs old on disability due to my weight. I was normal weight until around 21 and have continued to put on weight ever since. I can't go on being like this and I seem to only keep gaining. I'm at the point where my mobility is an issue and I have to do something soon. Just doing the most simple tasks like walking and fitting in a chair are almost impossible for me now.

9/27- Went to see my PCP and what a struggle it was just to get there and back! My mobility is very limited and this just totally exausted me. They had a special chair for me as I had been there before and couldnt fit in the waiting room chairs. I have very high blood pressure and will find out other results next week. I'm even heavier that I thought, 568 lbs. I am so depressed to find that out, I thought I was around 520 or so which is bad enough!

6/25/03- Its been s olong since I have updated my profile! Sorry to say no good news is most likely the reason. In feb I fell and broke my wrist and twisted my ankle and hyperextended my knee. So as if I was not immobile enough I was basically in bed or on the couch for 2 months. Now its almost impossible to walk without my walker with my injuries and all the weight. When they weighed me at the drs last month I nearly passes out when i saw the readout on the digital scale -594- lbs! OMG how did I ever let myself get like this? Why havent I done more to stop it? The dr told me if I wasn;t so obese my fall most likely would have resulted in only a bruise not in the fractures and torn ligaments. My blood pressure was also high again so now its more medicine. I will update agin son as I have a consult appt in 2 weeks. Wish me luck!

3-2-04

I havent updated in so long. Computer troubles have limited my online ablities but with my new computer I am starting to catch up! I had submited an appeal letter but was denied after a long and depressing 3 month wait. To make matters worse I have gained weight over the holidays and have been eating so badly. Its hard to eat healthy when you cannot cook for youself and have to rely on others so its been processed food and way to much of it unfortunately. I am going to try again as I know I have even more co-morbidities with this horrible amount of weight I have put on over the years but am so heavy now that I am so scared to go to the drs. The last time I went last yr I could barely make it and I am not sure how I could do it now. Sadly I have not left my home for over 6 months now not that I had gone out much beofre in the last 5 yrs but at least before I would on certain occasions go out with someones help. I have been trying to eat better and less for the past month and hope I can get to see my Dr soon. Lori