I was skinny until I had my first child.  I was actually not fat after that BUT that is when my weight problems began.  During my pregnancy I felt good, everything tasted great, I slept a lot and I gained over 40 lbs. I never lost back to my pre-pregnancy weight. Seven years later I was fat. I became pregnant with my second child gained even more weight and was obese after her delivery. Seven years later the night that hurricane Opal settled over Atlanta , I found out my husband was having an affair.  I lost 40 lbs with out WLS in the next two months. I just stopped eating.  By that summer I had lost down to 121 pounds my pre-pregnancy weight. 
     During the next several years I gained weight and started going to a weight loss clinic that gave me diet pills. I lost weight.  I gained weight again, I lost weight.  I am the poster child for the YoYo Dieters. You look at their poster. That is me!  I could lose it I just could not keep it off. 
     My husband and I divorced mostly because I just could not get over his betrayal. He tried to make it right but I just wanted to run away. I was, for a while, especially when I was skinny very self destructive in my behaviors. I also became very independent, fearless, competitive and adventurous. 
     Two years ago I met a man who helped me learn to stop running. He is the most honest man I have ever met.  We have had so much fun. We have had the most incredible adventures. Unfortunately during these last two years I have slowly gained 60 pounds.  Everything tastes better when he is around. Life is always a celebration. Mostly I don’t seem to have the will power to starve my self thin any more.