katetme
Huh, my story? I am not special in as much as my story will sound like so many others. My battle with weight started after the birth of my first child in 1975. While all the research said, nursing your baby will make your baby weight vanish in weeks, not for me. While Weight Watchers said follow our guidelines and you will make your goal, not me(times 7 times) I have tried Nutrisystem, my doctor saved me from the Phen-fen horror, Weight WAtchers, Hoodia, Relacour, Atkins, South Beach, SLim Fast, Fasting, NordicTrak, walking, running, swimming,exercise classes, Curves , I even applied to Biggest Losers, thinking I could be humiliated on National TV and maybe that would work, but never heard from them and on and on. Now what do they all have in common?? While I was doing them ALL, I lost weight. But like you all, I have not been able to keep the weight off and each time I have yo-yoed back to my starting weight plus plus.
Now in my fifties, I am realizing how little time I might have left to DO this and have it stick. I am anxiously awaiting a call from my surgeon's offic e, hoping my PCP has finished her collection of data for him and I will have a consultation, soon.
I am sick and tired of being sick and tired. I have HBP, high cholesterol, a am pre diabetic, my knees hurt, I haven't seen parts of my body for 5 years!! It hurts to tie my shoes, go to the bathroom, walk a half a mile, undress in front of my husband of 35 years let alone be intimate. Please know he loves me just the way I am but wants me to be around for another 35 years.
My birth father dies at 51 from weight related heart attack, and this past year has claimed his daughter at 51, and his son at 46 from probable weight related deaths. My half siblings!
Here's another shameful secret-if I am gonna do this I might as well tell you all...
I am a Marriage and Family Therapist, people come to ME for help, sometimes for weight related issues, eating disorders, depression, anxiety, social phobias. And there I am, morbidly obese, yes, let's say that again, morbidly obese.
IT IS TIME! God Help me.
