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My name is Anna. I am the wife of a wonderful man. I am the mother of two beautiful children.
I have been overweight my entire life. I can't remember a time when I wasn't overweight. Going through school was difficult because of all the name calling. I had and still have low self esteem. I was always very shy. I never learned how to associate with people in a normal manner. I always felt as if they were talking about me. Sad isn't it?
I grew up in a home where food was and is love. I learned to turn to food when I was upset. It was my "safe place." I knew that whatever I ate was going to make me feel better for a while and it wouldn't talk about me and call me names. Needless to say the pounds piled on and on. When I graduated high school I weigh 220. A couple of years after high school, I lost 50 pounds. I ate one meal a day and lived on coke and cigarettes. Some diet huh? I met my husband that year. We got married. I gained all of the weight back because I started eating again. We moved away for a couple of years for his job. We moved back in 1992. I started gaining weight again. With two pregnancies my weight fluctuated between 225 to 279. I was miserable.
In 2001 I was diagnosed with Diabetes. Through changes in my diet and medications I'm down to 222 again. I'm so excited at the opportunity to loose weight and get off medications. That's so wonderful to me.
I'm ready to start the journey. Grace and Peace to You.