My journey to obesity

Mar 16, 2012

Hello Everyone. My name is Crystal. I have not always been obese. Throughout childhood I was scrawny. Seriously. Through high school my highest weight was 115 and I am 5' 0" tall. I never thought I was small. I had some confidence but was still convinced I was overweight. I hit college and gained the freshman 15...or is it 40. I was still in good shape and weight around 125 to 130. Then in my sophomore year of college I had my first daughter, followed 17 months later by my second daughter. My weight fluctuated between 139 and 176 depending on how many diet pills I was eating at the time. In 2009 I gave birth to my son and was diagnosed with dilated cardiomyopathy. My body and heart where flooded with fluid. I lost 43 pounds in 3 days in the hospital on IV lasix and had to have 2 blood transfusions. It was over a year before I recieved approval from the cardiologist to exercise. By that point I weight around 200 lbs and it had become much more difficult to do it. Over the next year I basically ignored myself. I hid behind baggy clothing and I refused to go out with any of my skinny friends from my past. Everytime I went somewhere I prayed that I wouldn't run into old friends or acquaintances. My boyfriend, Dustin, and my relationship started rapidly deteriorating. I refused to let him see me undressed because of my shame. Finally near the end of last year I made the decision to spend my tax return on gastric sleeve surgery. I do not have insurance so I was Mexico bound!

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