Jessica S.
Most of us on this board have simular lives or have gone through some of the same adventures with our weight problems. Here is my story.
I have battled with an increase and decrease in my weight since the day I was born. I was born in the United States ...in Atlanta Georgia. And if you know anything about the south...Lots of Talking and Heaps of Eating. From living this lifestyle of 25 years I have gone up and down to the weight that I am now of 123 kilos (272lbs). I have always been told that I could shed a few kilos but my body type is naturally this big and that this is the way I was created to look, but as I was told this I continued to hide from the mirrors, cameras and and eventually the outside world. For anyone who has known me i nthe past will tell you that I am the most outgoing person in the world but lately something has changed in me..I no longer care to be with others or want to go out in public. Deep down I know that my weight incline is to blame. In the past I fixed things by wild nights of drugs and drinking and unhealthing relationships with men. I later became a Christian and decided to study Bible Theology on a depeer level to work with Youth in the Church. Althought my live changed tremendously and I began to find a love for my innerself I still longed to get rid of this extra person (literly) that was lingering. Ive held those feelings for the past 7 years and watch two dear friends of mine go through gastric bypass and have seen how theyre lives were dramaticly changed. When I mentioned the thought of having this done my mother's remarks where "youre not fat you just need a bit of exercise and stay away from the cake...and eat some meat while youre at it" (im vegaterian)
While those remarks may have been true Ive always known that something more needed to be done. Now that Im married I have began to think of my health more than anything...I also think of my husbands happiness, and althought he loves me the way I am...I know that he would love me a bit more minus a bit of fat! Lately I have had some knee pains and I thought that maybe its because my recent increase of exercise ( I have recently gone from housewife to working girl 3 weeks ago)
But the pain has gone on and on and while at a wedding I had my THIS IS THE LAST STRAW MOMENT!
I sat in the waiting area while the bride and groom had their pictures taken...in a chair with side bars... I turned my head to the nearby mirror and an overwheming feeling of angry overcame me. The image I saw brought me to tears and I rush to a near by toliet.
After that moment I saught out something ot do about this problem. I went to a doctor and was given Reductal and Thiaroid medications which only gave me a wopping weight loss of 20lbs which came back two weeks after. I returned to the doctor in hopes of something stronger and possiably a recomendation for a tummy tuck...Of course Doctor says NO WAY TUMMY TUCK !
After this the doctor began to snoop around in my personal life and found out about my irregular menstral cycles ( I know I should have told him but hey..im dumb)
He then had me tested for everything under the sun and diagnosed me with polycystic overian sydrome...
WOW that threw me for a loop..all I wanted was diet pills and now Ive got some weired hormone problem. I then went home with a bit of depression and disappointment as I realised how far away from weight loss I was. As the researcher I am I begain to look up plastic surgery options and what I could do to loose this weight. Especially since the doctor said that my new found overian disease survived off my weight.
I then found out about the Lap Band option that is so popular here in Australia. I then later found this sight in my reaserch and it has been the best findings of my life. Not too long after I found a weight loss institute specialising in Lap Band Surgery only 20 mins away. I then began to talk to my husband about my findings and everything seemed to look so good. Little did I know ...Everything was about to change.
In order to understand me, you must understand my story !
