Donna Babcock
A little about me...
Mar 28, 2009
I come from a very large family of 9 children (4 boys & 5 girls). I was born in Kingston Ontario Canada, and just like everyone else in the single digit number weighing 7 lbs something ( not sure of my ounces my mother had so many of us she can remember our ounces just the poundage...lol) When I was born we lived on a farm in Hartington Ontario,but moved to the out skirts of the village of Sydenham when I was four years old. My father worked at aluminum plant but that didn't stop him from building us a huge home on the water front which also had a small country store and grill which my mother ran while he was at work. My mother was also responsible for a cottages we owned and rented during the summer months. Everyone had responsibilities and jobs in our family and no one was afraid of hard work. God knows my parents have always worked hard to raise all of us kids.Anyway my weight problems started as a toddler. When I was brought home from the hospital the milk I received came straight from the cows on our farm. Fresh from the bucket and into my bottle. Yummy no fat in that right! Well as months went by Donna got chunky and my mother was amazed at how quickly I started to walk (at 10 months) considering how heavy I was. She always though that once I started to walk I lose the baby fat. It never happened.
I stayed heavy all through Public School, and straight into High School. In grade 10 I can remember hitting an all time high of 286 lbs, and I was devastated. My mother and I made a plan to eat better, and exercise daily. We did and within 6 months my weight dropped to 230 lbs. I stayed there for a few years maintaining that weight.
During my school years I had a couple boyfriends, but no one I truly was what I felt would be the one for me, until I was in my last year of school. That was when I met my sole mate. My husband Scott, which I have been married to for 20 years. We dated for 6 years before we decided to marry, and start a family. During this time I gained quite a bit of weight, and was back up around the 290 lb mark. We weren't having any luck getting pregnant so we ended up using fertility drugs. It worked. We got pregnant the first try, and with twins no doubt, but it wasn't meant to be. I miscarried almost 3 months in. We decided to try again right away and we were lucky enough to have our daughter Whitney.
After Whitney was born my weight went up and down. I was trying different diets to get myself healthier, but all I did was end up weighing more. I was now over 300 lbs. Oh no!...what have I done to myself. My husband and I still wanted another child and I couldn't imagine carrying a baby as well as all the extra weight I had put on. The doctor told me get the weight off and we will try fertility drugs again. So determined I tried one more diet, and it worked well for me. I lost 45 lbs in 3 months, and got pregnant shortly after with our son Kiegan. Now our family was complete.
Time went by and my weight again up and down. I started to have problems with panic attacks, and very severe at times. So I went to the doctor which put me on medication to help with the attacks. It helped somewhat but I still got the occasionally. My weight started to climb. Why? I wasn't eating more or changed my life that much. Well come to find out the medication I was on could make you gain weight. Great! Just what I needed. No only did I find this out, but I also had another medical condition which had made me put weight on. I have a fibroid tumor the size of a small grapefruit. Wonderful! So not only was I dealing with the medication but now I needed a hysterectomy, but my doctor wouldn't operate because of my size. I tried so many diets at this point, but nothing was moving the scales, and I needed the medication to keep me from panicing. I had to get some help the tumor had to come out before it got any bigger.
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About Me
Kingston,
Location
53.6
BMI
Surgery
02/20/2009
Surgery Date
Feb 23, 2009
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