GypsyGoddess
Hi! My name is Nora. I was born very small (3 lbs. 9 oz.) that's one of the few times in my life I was small. As soon as I turned 1 I just started growing and growing. I was not obese but I was just big all over, tall and thick, By age 7 I looked 10. It was like that all through childhood. started putting weight on around 6th grade, My mom kept me indoors all the time because I was already a "young lady" and I guess she was afraid some boy would take advantage of me, can't blame her though , I did look older. But, still ,I would be bored and would eat to distract myself, so that with no outdoor activities made me gain a lot of weight.
By the time I was in high school I weighed 252, you can imagine the rude comments and dirty looks. So I quit and went to work full-time at the age of 16. That same year I was diagnosed with Juvenile Diabetes. I was put on insulin right away. I lost a lot of weight, By the time I was 19 I was weighing 142. I had my first baby at 21 weighed 170 went up to 212 was back down to 170 in 2years. At the age of25 I had my second child, I went up to 230 it took me almost 3 years to get down to 200. Then at the age of 28, yup you guessed it, I had my third and last baby. Wheww...almost didn't make it out of that one, I had preclampsia, my kidneys were ready to shut down, and as I battling a vicious bone infection in my foot ( they were ready to cut the thing off, thank God I recovered!) I had to get emergency c-section 2 months early. One week later I suffered mini stroke (I recovered well from that) I weighed 260 lbs, and had hardly walked for 4 months prior to having my baby.
I hardly walked for a whole year after that, due to bone infections in my feet. I was so depressed an bored, I ate and ate and ate. I kept putting on weight year after year. Now here I am 10 years from the 200 lbs that I weighed before my last baby to weighing 349. I'm done living in this body. I want my old self back, would be content weighing 200, I wanna run, I wanna play with my kids. I want to stop avoiding social situations because I am ashamed of how I look. I want to live for a VERY- VERY long time.
