bearcollector
Ever since I was about 6 years old I have had problems with my weight. For reasons unknown to me that is when I started the gain, until that point I was fairly thin. I don't know if it was due to psychological problems or just heredity. I would probably lean more toward the psychological since my mother was divorced from my father and remarried my stepfather when I was 5. Maybe even then I was using food as a crutch. Who knows. Certainly not I or I wouldn't have ended up being overweight the majority of my life. I don't really remember being teased too much about it in school I got most of that from my brothers and sisters at home. For the most part my friends seemed to be pretty accepting (at least to my face). I think I was around 180 or so in middle school and 210 throughout high school. I have dieted since I was about 7 off and on. My mother, god love her, tried to help but when you are a child you don't really grasp that, all I saw was everyone else got to eat what they wanted but I didn't , so of course I would sneak sweets when my mother wasn't around. I like most overweight people have tried every diet that I could find, from starvation to protein only and they would work for a short period of time but the weight always seemed to come back with more added. I was around 180 when I met my wonderful husband in 1989 and we were married in 1993. One of the best days of my life except the birth of my children. I have 3 children, Austin is 12 and I have twins Bailey and Breanna who are 10. I put on more weight after each pregnancy. Since the birth of my first child I had been going to the doctor on a regular basis for my weight. I would try different diets or medication, whatever he thought was best that is what I did. They worked for awhile but the weight always came back. After I had the twins my body didn't bounce back as well as it had with my first child. I had back problems and problems with menorahgia(sp) or heavy periods. I had a hysterectomy in 2005. I was finally at my wits end when I told my doctor I'm at the end of the line, what can I do now? He suggested looking into bariatric surgery. I had never thought about that before because for some reason I thought that was the easy way out and I didn't need surgery to lose weight. I checked into it and decided that maybe that was the best thing for me to do. My doctor referred me to Dr. Cacucci in Carmel. I went for my consultation in August (on my birthday) and was convinced before I left I was convinced that I had made the right decision to pursue this surgery. I had my surgery January 31, 2007
