kishamb
I have struggled with my weight every since about the 7th grade which is about the age of 13. I was always chunky but it didn't start to bother me until i moved into high school. I started to be embarrassed and ashamed about how I looked. After high school I got married right away and my husband was overweight as well and the fact that I was over weight didn't bother him but it horrified me. My weight escalated to about 300 pounds. At the age of 31 2005 I was told by my doctor that I was borer line Type 2 diabetes and Hypertension. He advised me to loose the weight and to take the prescriptions for the diabetes and hypertension. I left that office devastated....depressed and some more. I vowed to loose weight by the end of the year or I was going to get some sort of surgery. The next 18 months i lost about 75 pounds but I hit a major struggle and stall....I managed to keep most of the weight off and became complacent.......until December of 2009.....I worked hard and began to loose weight again only to find out in January 2011, I was pregnant WITH TWINS. I went from 225 up to 270 and struggled with Hypertension during my pregnancy. Here I am now 247 lbs and have been prescribed those pills again. Still unhappy with the way I look and the way I feel, (I seldom look in the mirror and like what I see) I have decided that bariatric Surgery is the way for me to go...So I am here for support and to be support to someone else that is struggling with their journey.
