Debra B.
My name is Debra and I am a single mom of two beautiful teenage girls, Dawnielle 19 and Cynthia 15.
I have been overweight since I was around 13 or 14. My parents put me on 1,200 calorie diets, Cabbage Soup diets, Grapefruit diets..you name it..they put me on it. I was around a size 8 which to me was normal. It made me feel ashamed to look the way I did and made me want to hide food when I was hungry so they wouldn't comment on my weight. My big thing was peanut butter. It was the easiest thing for me to grab and hide. The more they would comment the more I looked for comfort in my food. Then I ate and would be more depressed. It has always been a very victious cycle with me. Don't get me wrong, I don't blame my parents at all for my weight. This was all my doing and I take full responsibility for it. They were doing what they knew how to do to try and help me.
Over the past 30 years I have gone from a chunky young girl of 135 pounds to a morbidly obese woman that at my biggest topped the scales at 325 pounds. I had tried EVERYTHING to lose and would gain more back. I was at my wits end and thought there was no way out for me until I learned about Bariatric Surgery.
This is the tool I have prayed about to get my health back. This is not the end of my story...but just the beginning.
