AsuraDunnigan
I am a 34- year old African-American female. My current BMI is 53 (you do the math). I have been married for 14 years and we have 4 children (3 biologically). I work full time as a social worker. I have a Masters Degree in Social Work. I am a very happy person. I have a lot of friends and I appear to be well liked by others. My weight/fat causes me to feel embarrassed and ashamed. I have conquered every other issue in my life, but seem to fail at weight loss.
I have been over weight as long as I can remember. I first became interested in my dieting and weight loss about age 9. I have tried a host of different diets, slim fast, pills, starvation, deprivation, but none worked. The most weight that I have lost have been following the births of my 3 children (40lbs), but seem to put it back on after breastfeeding.
I have been considering weight loss surgery for about 3 years, but was talked out of it by several family members. I now realize that having the weight loss surgery could be the only way the I survive and it will increase my quality of life 10 fold. I am nervous about the food allowances following the surgery. For the first time in years, I can visualize myself at a healthy weight. I can really see it happening for me.
