MsTFAC2009
Hello. I'm MsTFAC and I decided to join this site because it's Time For A Change in my life. I am 5'9 and I weigh about 326 pounds. This is the heaviest I have ever been, including how heavy I was before I lost 140 pounds almost 5 years ago now. When I'd decided in 2004 to lose weight I was tipping the scales at about 320 pounds. I was tired of being tired and hated the way I looked so I went on a combination of diets. Atkins, low-fat, back to Atkins, back to low-fat. That's how I did it for more than a year and by the summer of 2005 I was down to 180 pounds. People barely recognized me. I was in a size 12 jeans, down from size 26W. I felt and looked amazing. But it wasn't to last because by the end of that same year, I'd packed on 30 pounds in a hurry. The weight had crept back on, year by year, slowly but surely and now I am at 326 pounds. I feel disgusted with myself. My blood pressure is a problem again and my Dr, who'd told me I should write a book when I lost the 140 pounds, now tells me he would support me if I decided to have Gastric Bypass surgery. I'd once prided myself in doing it on my own. Now that I'm here and I'm nearing 40 I know I have to do something drastic and I have to do it now.
