JadedJassy
Here We Go!
Dec 24, 2008
I am new to this site having found it by randomly clicking onto links at MSN. I have always tried to find a website like this that, linked people who either were looking at surgery options or already had surgery together. This is a great site, and I am extra happy that for a broke college student that it is free! Therefore, here is the deal… I plan to upload a blog to update everyone on my progress, every week, perhaps every Sunday mornings or Saturday night, either way it’s going to be on the weekends. I hope that this blog can help me reach out to people about my weight loss journey and to receive help from others that have already had it. I know that this is a path that I am going to have to make myself, my parents especially my mother doesn’t approve of the surgery she thinks that I can lose weight on my own. However, I have tried that numerous times, and now I weigh 320 pounds, which is a lot of weight for a 22-year-old woman. What people who are not overweight understand is that it takes a toll on your mentally and physically. There have been many things that I have wanted to do but couldn’t because of my weight. Such things (as they are important to a 22 year old) are going out to parties with friends with out fear of embarrassment, shopping and hoping that clothes will fit, hoping to fit in the chairs in class, walking and not going out of breathe and having to deal with the stares that people give you. All my life I have been told that, I have a pretty face, but now I want a body to match. And while some people are comfortable being over weight I know that I am not. I want a to live a long time, I want to be happy and not to say being thin is an indicator of happiness but once you are happy with yourself, then the rest will follow. So please when you read my blogs, invite others to read it and send out encouragement. That is one thing that I am sorely lacking on campus, as I don’t talk to people about it. (I don’t have any overweight friends). Any suggestions or tips are welcome anytime. Thank you!
