about me

Mar 08, 2009

Well I'm the girl who has been big since the second grade.  Luckly I have always felt comfortable in my own skin.  I was never picked on as a child.  I always was surrounded by great amazing friends and family.  I come from a big family so it was the Skinny people who always looked "sick".  One of the comments I have always been told is ... Yeah you are big but you have a pretty face!  WOW is that a compliment?  Thank you?  I think...  Reality really sunk in when at the Age of 26 My liver enzymes were high and some cardiac enzymes were also creeping up.  I remember thinking to myself I AM 26 YEARS OLD!  Working in the medical field I knew where i was headed.  Because I don't drink alcohol I knew that my liver enzymes were  high due to my obesity.  For the first time in my life I was afraid to die young.  So I asked my doctor, Whom I also work for, to refer me.  At first he said I didn't need the surgery and that I could do it on my own.  But after we talked he decided my mind was already made up.  I couldn't get in my car without getting out of breath.

At my heaviest I was 292lbs 5'6.  In order for me to get my surgery I need to get down to 243lbs.  I started a 1300 calorie diet and working out 3 days a week and before I knew it I had lost 20 lbs in one month and was going to the gym 7 days a week.  I hit a plateau and i kept working out more than ever.  Finally my doctor told me to Stop working out if i wanted to lose the weight instead of gaining muscle.  And To my surprise when I stopped going to the gym and just sticking to my 1300 calorie diet I started losing more weight.  I have lost 30lbs as of 3/8/09 and I am 8lbs away from starting the Final process for my surgery. 

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