c2cat98
My Story is a familiar one to many. I have been a "big" girl all my life. And it's really never bothered me. I've always had boyfriends/girlfriends, in fact I can't ever really think of an instance when I really liked someone and couldn't win them over except Lyle- but he missed out.
My weight has never bothered me, except when I turned 31. I realized that my dad died at 62 and I had to wonder, is this it? Is this the half way point of my life? Is this where I go downhill? That year I was diagnosed with diabetes - something that helped kill him- and I could see heart disease and liver disease on the horizon waiting for me to get to them. No way-
I have struggled with diets since I was 12- but it wasn't until I turned 18 going to college, that I really started to pack on the pounds. I remember going to the doctor when I was 20 for something, and I'd gained 110lbs over a 9 month period. I wasn't even pregnant, this was just pure weight gain. They checked my thyroid, because surely something was out of whack, but no- everything was fine.
I realized then that in high school, while I played sports V-ball and B-ball, I might have eaten 4000 calories a day, I was exercising and running 4 to 5 miles a day, after I left high school, my eating habits didn't change, but my exercise habits did. It was huge and impacted my life daily.
I tried Jenny Craig, Nutrisystem, phen-phen, weight watchers, hydroxycut, you name it, I've tried it. I did not want to have surgery. But then 3 years ago, I really started to think about it. When I proposed the prospect of surgery to my partner, she said no. No talking about it, no nothing. It was only bad. So we tried to seriously diet together. I lost 30 pounds, put that back on and gained 40 more.
I have done a lot of research and we have decided to move forward with the WLS and am so excited. Each bite of food I take right now, helps remind me that nothing tastes as good as thin will feel.
