DawnD
My weight story begins in childhood. I was overweight since I was 3. Even though I wasn't morbidly obese, childhood consisted of being picked on by other kids. I've lost significant a handful of times in my life. Once before 9th grade (9th grade was a great year). I lost approx 150 lbs on Weight Watchers in my mid 20's. I was beginning to get into a size 10 (at 187 lbs) and was in the best physical shape of my life. Bad choices in relationships and never dealing with why I ate led me to gain all my weight back. I got down to around 240 in my early 30's, but that didn't last long and I was back over 300. It was just before 300 lbs that I met my wonderful husband. My weight went up to 360 (gotta eat when happy too) and then back to 310 when they thought I had lupus and my mom died of lung cancer. At that point I swore I would not gain weight again. Yeah right. I got back to 350, then 375. I began seeing a certified eating disorder specialist once a week beginning in Oct 2006 and started to gain some insight into my eating. The ironic thing is that I ended up going up to 406 by the end of Sept 2007. A few months before this, I began the serious quest re: WLS. My husband has been super supportive and my surgery was scheduled for 2/21/08.
