Sarah W.
My story...
Not too sure how wonderful it is... Obesity has ruled my life since... umm as far back as I can remember. I have always been the biggest kid in the family, in school, pretty much everywhere. I remember always hateing how I looked and how I was teased as a child.
So at the age of 12 my parents and I enrolled in a gym and my dad who has also struggled with his weight started dieting... I think that was the biggest mistake ever. Although always active playing softball, riding bikes, walking to school I was never able to loose weight, dieting never helped either. I think the hardest thing was when i was a teenager... depression took over my life from about 14 till 17 I didn't want to go to school pretty much hated my life, & mom wasn't much help her "insperation" for me to feel better about myself... if you loose weight I'll go and buy you $100 of new clothes, well guess what mom it never worked and the $100 that was getting spent was at lane bryant sooo I only got 1 outfit... o_0 not much for insperation.
At 17 I finally accepted that I'm going to be big forever I just had to live with it and figure out a way to be more confident than anyone else so that when I walk in a room I keep my head high and my voice loud lol yup I became the funny fat girl. I think it helped that once I was out of high school the pressure of "life" took over the pressure of "popularity" (I'm sure it helped that I started getting more attention from guys too). Well as the path of life goes I lost some weight with my confidence high and... dun dun duunnnnn.... got pregnant welp that piled on an extra 50 lbs smdh no bueno. and with the comfort of a "stable" relationship no need to keep up appearances. Couple years later... baby #2 and the relationship was over... ught oohh now I'm 100 lbs heavier cause I was "comfortable".
That's when I decided that wls will be the best option for not only myself but also my girls. I want to see them grow up and get married and have kids and grandkids so on and so forth. Once again life decided to take its own winding road once again lost my job and woop here comes another 30 lbs, oh and the depression was back and no more insurance to pay for wls.
I have finally started to get my life back on the road I want and I can't wait to get WLS. I'm sure that although life will still throw curve balls at me I won't have the stress and pain of being over weight, unhealthy, out of breath, hypertensive, & tired for my inablility to actually sleep. I'll be able to live the life I was supposed to have and enjoy every part of it :D
