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I am a 34 year single mom of 3 boys. I'm 5'2' and I weight 330. I hope to have this surgery to improve my health and outlook on my life.
My name is Theresa. My obesity story began after the birth of my first child. As a teenater I was slim and athletic but as I began to enter my teens I started picking up weight. People would tell me I was getting bigger. I never paid them any mind After the birth of my first child I weighed about 180 & was wearing a size 18. By the time I was pregnant with my second child I was about 260. In 1992 raising 3 boys, now my weight had gone up to 350. I never left the house, only to go to work and back home. Once I got home, I'd feed the kids and sit in front of the tv until it was time to go to bed. I was miserable. On nice sunny days I'd find myself at home in bed trying to sleep the long hours away. I never had energy and I didn't know at the time I was going through depression. My weight always made me self conscious. I mean people have always been friendly to me but I always felt they were looking at me out of the corner of their eyes as if to say damn she's big or she know she shouldn't even be eatin that or that much. When eating out there was always the fear of not being able to fit behind tables. I mean I was scared like people who are scared of heights. When offered a booth, I would always request a table. My marriage of 15 years failed. No communication. He didn't understand what I was going through and neither did I. Yet I will never understand how he could have been so embarrassed by how large I had gotten when he was the co-contributer to my bad habits. Obesity can make you feel so worthless.
