Heather D.
Birth through age 8 - Probably "normal" sized, who remembers back that far?
Ages 8 through 19 - Bigger than my friends. I tried TOPS, phentermine and those mechanized torture machines that do all the exercising for you while you lay there with your feet strapped to the sitrrup-thingies. Didn't help.
Ages 19 through 21 - Apparently I lost a little weight in there somewhere, but I never noticed until afterwards. My dieting secret? Working my butt off cleaning hotel rooms during the day, then chatting the night away on that newfangled internet contraption. And in between, being too distracted to eat much more than a McDonald's cheeseburger every once in awhile.
Age 21+ - This was about the time I met my husband and tricked him into moving 1500 miles across the country we moved in together. This was, of course, before he was actually my husband. That didn't happen for another year and a half, in 1999. We lived in Oklahoma, then Delaware and now Texas. All that time I was a fatty fat fat. I tried weight watchers, oh, about a million and three times. At age 24 I started looking into WLS and had several false starts. Once I got as far as a psych consult, but then I decided maybe I could just try Weight Watchers "one more time". Yeah, it didn't work that time either. So here I am now at age 33 with no insurance, planning to go to Mexico for WLS - and totally looking forward to it.
