nickomary
the beginning
Feb 22, 2009
I have had a few fleeting thoughts about WLS over the past few years. I always thought that was for someone with no self control. How did I get here? I am a 51 year old woman that is 5 ft 4 in and 257 lbs.When I really started to think about my "diet" history, I realized that I have been on a diet since I was 11 years old. I have vague recollections of my Mom taking me to TOPS meetings and a few years later, Weight Watchers meetings, I managed to graduate from high school and get married (the first time) at around 185lbs. Both of my children were considered high risk because I didn't gain more than 5 lbs with each...not sure why, I just remember that I didn't gain much during the pregnancies...but, boy did I eat after they were born!!!
I tried most every diet that came along... I would lose but never much and the weight always came back with a few or twenty more pounds.
Shortly after Oprah did her "liquid diet", so did I! I was at around 245 and I lost around 100 pounds. But, as soon as I looked at real food, the weight came back on and fast, really fast!!! I did a few more silly diets...Mayo clinic, the cabbage soup diet, etc... A couple of years ago, I went on another liquid diet and lost 80 lbs...then my Mom died and I fell apart and off the diet train again...On my way back up the scale, I started getting really scared. I felt like I had lost all control...I joined Weight Watchers once again, and in the last year, I have gained it all back and then some.
