Ttessa223
My name is Trish and I am a 27 year old mother. My son is 2 years old. I have been overweight my entire life and obese my entire adult life. I remember as a child hearing my stepmother laughing at me and saying things like, "She'll be pushing 100 before summer.'" This would have been when I was in 4th or 5th grade. My dad used to tell people how I got so big I skipped sizes. Silly me as a child I thought I was getting to be a big girl. Looking back, I see he was telling everyone how fat his daughter was. My weight has always held me back in making friendships and I do have social anxiety. I guess I just always feel like I am being judged. The best diet I ever was on was the low carb when I was 19. I lost 30 pounds. Then I ate a muffin. That was it. 8 years later, I weighed nearly 250 lbs. I was too tired to play with my son after work. I have a sedentarty job, so it is not like I exert a lot of effort at work (other than mental). I want to be a better example for my son. WLS was a very hard decision for me. I still suffer from guilt feeling as if this is something I should have been able to do on my own. I had to keep reminding myself that in 27 years, I have not been able to lose weight. I decided to go ahead with surgery and had open RNY 6/5/07.
