Summer R.
I was a very energetic, fit and healthy child. I have pictures of me with six pack abs at around 9 years old. I started getting a little bit thicker in junior high and then high school, where I thought I was just huge, but looking back now I realize I was healthy with curves.
At 21 I gave birth to my daughter and left the hospital in my pre-pregnancy jeans, not a problem! Then I stopped breast feeding when my daughter was about 3 months old and watched the weight just pile on. No matter what I did it seemed like I just got fatter and fatter. Fast forward nine years and I weighed over 300 pounds! I hurt, I was constantly tired, diabetic, GERD, Bile Reflux, high cholesterol, I was a big ole mess! Then I went to Europe in July of 2009 and the entire time I was there I didn't need my insulin...what??? How is that possible, I'm eating more not less I was on vacation! Then it dawned on me. The food in Europe was all fresh, no packaged crap loaded with chemicals...
I came home and cancelled Schwans and started my new philosophy where if I read the ingredients and if I couldn't pronounce everything listed, I didn't eat it! I was able to get down to 240lbs doing this. But then it was like I hit a brick wall. My doctor and I tried everything to get me to even 239 and nothing worked. I stayed bouncing around between 240 and 260 since then. But that wasn't enough for me. So after two years my doctor agreed that surgery was probably my only option. And I began my journey towards WLS in June 2012.
*I am insulin resistant
*I have PCOS
*I'm bipolar
