mom_to_4boyz
i am a 29 year old mother to 4 boys ages 12, 7, 4, 3. i have the best husband on earth (i need to update the rest of this old info) and always joked that thank god hes a chubby chaser lol. he insists he just likes good ppl and weight has nothing to do with it. we have known each other since we were 13 i love that we have that much history .fastforward to 2003 we tried and tried for a baby girl but got a boy everytime. we decided it was time to shut down shop so i got my tubes tied during the birth of my last baby so now my body is mine again! now i can focus on my weight which has gone up and down dramatically over the last 6 years. i was never "skinny" like my mother she has always been 5 foot nothing and ranged from 95-105 lbs. shes naturally very petite. lucky bitch! lol i got a different set of genes i guess so i was always around 145 lbs as a teenager and at only 5'2.5 thats not a "healthy" weight, so they say. but looking back i would kill to weigh that again. 1999 i gave birth to my first son, yes i was 17. everything worked out i have no sob story. i got a job and took care of buisiness. after that i seemed to always stay around 170 lbs. untill 2003 when i was able to stop working and stay home with my son. i didnt know i had gained weight but in 2004 when i got preg with baby boy #2 i went to my first dr visit and when i got weighed i found out i was 200 lbs. 200 lbs!! i had no idea. i developed gestational diebetes in that pregnancy and had a strict diet to follow, i didnt gain any pregnancy weight, i actually lost about 5 lbs. my son was still a healthy 8 lbs 12oz. within a few weeks of birth i was down to 180 lbs. yay! i didnt know it would all come back plus some. by sometime in 2005 i was at my highest of 243. everytime i stepped on the scale i thought i cant really get any bigger but i kept gaining. i was diagnosed with p.c.o.s in 2006 while trying to conceieve baby #3. i was put on metformin which made me drop 10 lbs right away and got preg very soon. once again i had gest. diabetes and i followed the diet, i gained no weight and lost no weight during the preg. he was a big 9 lbs 3 oz. after the birth i shed 20 lbs right away. yay back at 200 lbs. i have always dieted on and off with no results since i couldnt stick to it very long. i got preg with baby #4 about 5 months after the birth of #3. i had managed to put back on the 20 lbs in that 5 months. so im 220 lbs preg with baby #4 and get gest. dieabetes again, i follow the diet and gain no preg weight. 2008 that boy was born at 9 lbs 10 oz. after that birth i drop about 15 lbs. eventually my dr puts me on meridia, worked great i got down to 189 which i havent weighed in years. after 3 months my insurance wont cover it anymore and i put 10-15 back on in a week, 1 week! finally my dr gives me the referal i have been wanting to the weight loss surgeon. it took about a month from the first meeting with her to get all the required tests done and my insurance approval. now im 233 lbs with surgery scheduled for june 1st. im so excited to finally stop with the weight going up and down. its just going to be down! i was 222 when i was weighed a month ago i have put on 10 lbs :( i have to try and replace 2 meals a day with a diet shake for the next 2 1/2 weeks untill the surgery since they like u to lose 10% of body weight before surgery. it makes the surgery and recovery easier. its going to be so hard. they may not even notice any weight loss since they dont know i gained. i cant wait to get it all over with
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