mommyamber2
I was a pretty normal sized girl in elementary and jr high....once I hit highschool, i started to grow...I was a size 18 when I graduated....I got married a year and a half later, and was about a size 22...10 years of marriage, and 5 kids later, i grew to about a size 28/30, my top weight was 312. My mother had the gastric bypass surgery about 6 years ago, and has successfully maintained her goal weight for the last 5 years. Her top weight was 286...when I seen that I hit the 300's, that i've already surpassed mom's top weight when she was 45 years old, and I was only 29, I knew it was time to do something....who knows how large I would have been when I was my mother's age...My oldest of 5 children is 8 years old...so the other thing I considered was that if I get myself "normal" now...and teach the kids good eathing and exersize habits now, they are a lot less likely to be obese as an adult. They will unlikely remember me being big, and won't be embarrased to have me around their friends later in life. My confidence level about how people feel about me is very low....I always feel like someone is talking about me, or i am being made fun of because of my size. I have also grown to be a little shy around "cool" people, because of what I think they might think of me. Now that I've had this surgery, I am hoping that it will fix my self esteem/confidence issue. Well....that's about it! Later!
