cowgirlsue
Well here I go.
I was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah. I grew up in a large, non-mormon, non-catholic family.
For the most part we were a severely dysfunctional family.
I and my twin were the youngest of 7 children. I had always been bigger than my twin. I was the biggest one in my whole family. I didn't eat anymore than they did, but somehow I kept the weight on.
Many years later after 17+ years of going through irregular cycles, facial hair, and living with morbid obesity all that time, I was diagnosed with Policystic Ovarian Syndrome. This is where fibroid tumors grow on the ovaries. One of the symptoms of PCOS is obesity.
A hysterectomy in 1995 remedied the PCOS problem. I was just wiped out from the disease and wanted it all over with so the doctor did a total hysterectomy.
My weight gain stopped immediately and I gradually lost about 20 pounds over the next 11 years. Then in 2006 I had lapband surgery and the weight has been going down since then.
