Hardy_1217
I weighed 120 in the 5th grade and recall feeling ashamed but wasn't sure how to lose weight. It wasn't something that my parents talked about or encouraged. My dads side of the family where all overweight, so I felt normal around them. In junior high I would never eat breakfast but I did have lunch and then I ate dinner at home. My mom made southern meals, like pork chops, pinto beans with white rice and corn bread fried in the pan with gravy on the side. I know we had gravy almost every meal and fried foods more than 5 nights a week. I graduated weighing 240. I went on my first extreme diet of ramen noodles and chicken soup and lost 60 pounds. Finally able to wear normal clothes at the age of 20. My first marriage, he was abusive verbally and mentally and I gained over 100 pounds in a year. I quickly ballooned up to over 327 pounds by the age of 25. After being married we relocated from my where I grew up to New York, to a small town near west point. It was freezing and snowed every day, very depressive. My husband wouldn't allow me to call home but twice a month for 30 minutes or less. I got a divorce and remarried. I started the atkins diet after I had my first and only child I started thinking about what her life would be like without me and how much I wanted to be here for her. I went from 327 to 254 pretty fast, like 4 mos. As soon as people told me I looked so GOOD, I took a break from my diet and tried to eat Normal foods and regained weight slowly. I was 295. Started the atkins again and lost a few pounds. I was at 280. In 2011 I heard about RNY and so started the process only to be at the end of it when my insurance changed so I had to wait again. I was ok with it because I had actually did the cabbage soup diet a week on and week off and got down from 280 to 230 and figured I could keep going by myself so I left it alone. I had arm surgery ( rotater cuff repair) in 2013 and gained weight again, it took me about a year and I was at 287 again. Today I am 265 and just had RNY July 24th. It has been a long process. I have dieted since I was 20 off and on. I have been in the gym 5 days a week to lose weight since I was about 30, so for 20 years I have been up and down the scale. I have high blood pressure and diabetes so I decided it was time to have surgery after doing all I could do. I was disappointed that I couldn't do it on my own, but with Gods help throughout my entire journey I decided that weight loss surgery was my ONLY option. So here I am.