GinaG816
My name is Gina and I am 33 years old, currently living in Holyoke, MA.
I have always been the "fat kid" out of all my friends. Although I was heavy, I was always an active person. My entire life was spent playing sports. Little league softball & soccer and when I got into high school I played softball and field hockey and even played softball in college. I was always pretty healthy physically except for having asthma since birth. My eating habits were never atrocious, but they weren't that great...Being from an Italian family, carbs were my best friend. Everything went along well until I moved to the middle of nowhere, Massachusetts and was working at a boarding school. Definitely not as active as I had been, eating was terrible and I was overeating on crap food at times too because I was depressed.
Still always being "the fat one" kept me in a deep state of depression and I found myself lost in this vicious cycle where I would feel bad about myself and eat to make myself feel better and then I would gain weight, feel bad, eat, and on and on and on. My eldest sister even passed away due to her morbid obesity and un-diagnosed sleep apnea. I finally moved back to New Jersey but the cycle never ended. I got active again playing in softball leagues, but the weight was already there. I tried losing and some did come off, but never enough. I met my wonderful Partner Deirdre in 2004 and was about 70lbs thinner. I wasn't "depressed" anymore per se, but it still lingered. We became very comfortable with one another and we both started packing on the pounds...although mine were a lot more than her's. My doctor told me I was in menopause due to my weight and that crushed me - all I have ever wanted was to find someone to share my life with and have a baby. I finally decided enough was enough and I needed to get myself healthy. I started my 6 months of supervised weigh-ins, and then all of my clearance work for surgery began in May 2010. Finally got my approval from insurance on 9/7/10 and my bariatric doctor wasted NO time and scheduled me for surgery for 9/10/10. I am so excited to start my life "over" again and make better choices and live a long and happy life!
