JennySellars
i've been a food addict and compulsive over-eater since i was about three years old. i won't go into all the gory details but i had an extremely emotionally difficult upbringing and started using food at a very young age to calm me, make me feel better and it pretty much became my reward for surviving each day. it was my only friend for years. i started trying to lose weight as a teenager and always achieved temporary success. like almost everyone i succeeded at Dr John McDougall, counting/restricting calories, Atkins, Jenny Craig, medifast 93' (all shakes) , Jenny Craig again and then my final attempt 2 years ago with the Medifast 5&1 plan. always losing some and always going back to maintaining around 225 pounds. then, somewhere during the last decade i started piling on the pounds and started pushing 300. 225 was always kind of manageable, but 285-292 is just simply uncomfortable. the last time i was under 200 was around 1995 when i widdled myself down to 185 on the stair master and doing the John McDougall diet. almost reaching 300 two years ago is what prompted me to try Medifast again. i succeeded and lost almost 70 pounds in four months. needless to say, the weight stayed off for awhile, but when i started regaining, i was alarmed at the wicked rate the pounds came back--then some. last October people commented on how much weight i lost, a year later i am at my all-time high. things happened really fast. i decided to see a psychiatrist in July to help enlighten me as to why i cannot be successful at getting thin. he put me on lexapro. i have anxiety and some depression issues, albeit not severe. i also started seeing a therapist. then somewhere around the end of July, 2010 i had an epiphany: Gastric bypass. duh. i went to the seminar, did all the pre-op crap and on October 4, 2010 i had the surgery with Dr. Laura Choi in Danbury hospital. at the time of writing this i am 6 days post-op.
