Cynthia Blume
I have always been heavy from birth, I was the biggest baby my mom had, as she always told me! I went on my first diet at 14 and I weighed about 260 or something. I hardly ate anything but I lost 80 pounds in like 4 or 5 months and kept most of it off until I graduated high school.I still wasn't skinny. I had a Vertical Gastric banding in 1991 when I was about 23 and lost about 90 pounds but then I started to gain back plus some, my dr. now had told me that my staples had came loose and that is why it didn't work. I then went through a divorce in 1994 and moved and went on a 1000 calorie a day diet and lost 160 pounds which I kept off until 1999 when my third child was born. I had gained back that weight and my mom passed away shortly after he was born and I decided I needed to really try to loose it and I lost 80 pounds and then couldn't lose anymore it seemed anyway! In 2003 I had my fourth child and I have actually gained more weight since he was born and so that is where I am today, I did manage to lose 33 pounds on my own but it was slow going, so I decide it was time to talk to Dr. Blaney once more just to see if I could have a revision and thank God he was up for the challenge! He is a fabulous physician and such a good person. It is the little things that you miss when you are so big like, bubble baths, tieing your shoes, bending over, lol. I am very Blessed!
