Elaina284
This is my story.... I honestly don't know where to start. I have been overweight for pretty much of my adolesent and adult life. I graduated high school it 1995-that is a long time ago!- I was probably a size 20. 6 months after I graduated, I met my husband Fidel. We got married in March of 1997, I was 19, he was 21. 2 1/2 years later our first child was born. My weight was around 250, I gained 30 lbs with her, she was born 8 lbs and 11 ozs. After my pregnancy I went down to that same size. I did manage loose about 25 pounds in the next 3 years and put about 20 back on. By then I was pregnant with my second child. I only gained 18 lbs with him, he was a big baby 8 lbs and 15 ozs. While I was pregnant I had gestational diebetes, in the end I ended up giving myself insulin shots. That was not fun! I decided then and there that I didn't want to be a diabetic. My 3rd child was a breeze, it was like she was just there over night.
My husband and I took care of my grandmother who was diabetic. I have seen what a person goes through, and all the hardships. We were there when she had to be put into a wheel chair and when her eyes went bad and she had to sit 6 inches from the TV to see it. In the end she lost her leg at the hip. She had been on dialysis for years, as long as I can remember. I didn't want my children to have to go through that with me. I want to be around long enough to see them grow up and have children of their own.
It took me awhile to get past the "I'm gonna research it" and just to do it. Finally when I started I couldn't learn enough.
