linithepooh11
Hi Everyone! OK here we go...like many people on this sight I have fought with my weight since I was younger. My entire family is small and then there was me. All through high school I kept it pretty much in check so I could be a cheerleader and do all the high school things teenage girls do, but after I went to college, got married and had kids I never saw under the 2 digits at the beginning of my weight again. Then in 1990 we moved to the coast of California and I started having problems with chronic asthma. The doctors put me on a steroid called prednisone and for eight years I began getting bigger and bigger. My weight was out of control. Long story short I divorced my husband, moved, was able to get off the prednisone, and started on the diet roller coaster again. Sadly nothing worked for long and each time I gained my weight back I climbed higher up the scale. After years of trying to get to have the WLS...... July 25, 2006 I was able to start my new life. I feel better than I have in years and after 12 weeks I have lost around 60 pounds! I am still fighting several demons...old habits and the worst is the fear that I am going to stop losing and climb back higher than I was before. Deep down I know there is a change, but the old thoughts still creep back into my mind all the time. Life is at an exciting stage for me. I am in the last two semesters of college and I will be a certified teacher. My oldest daughter is 20 years old and doing awesome and my youngest daughter is 16 years old and will be a senior and graduate next year. I am single and realizing I have a brand new life to live and many changes are happening in the next two years that are all positive! I hope anyone that wants to talk will visit with me and take this fun journey with me! Your friend, Linette
