kamehanaokala
A little about myself. I'm 35 and have battled over the bulge for what seems like forever. I was teased as a child because I was chunky. As a teen I lost a little weight but was always around 150 throughout high school and gained it all back and more after I had my 1st child at the age of 19. I had my 2nd child 6 yrs later and put on even more weight. At that point I decided to try Jenny Craig. I lost all of 7 lbs. I then heard of Atkins and decided to go for it when I found out I had an overactive thryroid(which the doc caught early on before I started losing weight). So he killed the thyroid function leaving me with Synthroid to take daily. I never followed thru with the Atkins thing. In 2002 I THOUGHT I was at my heaviest(198) and decided to go on a program called GR2 Control thru GNLD. Life was good as I lost 32 lbs. I then had my Gall Bladder removed due to stones. I had my 3rd child Sept. 2004. I gained more weight. In July 2005(a month after joining the local gym), I somehow herniated a disc. MRI scan, several doc visits(they only want to medicate me) and lots of ibuprofen and vicodin later, I sit here KNOWING that alot of pain can be alleviated by WEIGHT LOSS. I'm stuck in a rut. I cannot run, jog or even walk too fast as I can easily re-injur my back at any given time. Sometimes even sneezing causes my disc to bulge and puts me at EXTREME and EXCRUCIATING pain. I am here to TAKE A STAND AND LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST AGAIN!!!
