nothingtastesasgoodasthinfeels
My name is Kendra
and I'm 37 years old...I wasn't overweight all of my life... I was very fit and athletic in highschool...I cheered, played volleyball, softball, fieldhockey, I was a runner as well.
I decided to get married at a very young age...18...right out of highschool....thought I was happy...but, realized after about 4 years that I really didn't want to be in the situation I was in so I became very depressed....I gained 150 lbs. in 1 year. I was so miserable I was like a prisoner in my own home. I thought me getting pregnant would help and bring me out of the funk I was in. Well...I was so overweight that I couldn't conceive...not even with fertility drugs....so I was married for 8 years before I conceived. During my pregnancy I didn't gain any weight at all...I was already so obese....what a dangerous situation to put myself and my baby in...but, that's what I wanted more than anything. To make a long story short I had a very difficult birth but, nonetheless I gave birth to a 8lb. 9.5 oz baby girl. I was happy for a while but, still severly overweight. So I continued to lose and gain and lose and gain....you know the song and dance. Still finding myself being depressed...
my baby was now 5 and I wanted another baby so I got pregnant again...sorta a last ditch effort to sorta rekindle my feelings. Had another baby girl, just sorta ho hummed through life....yo yoing with diets and weight. I started hearing more and more about gastric bypass surgery but, I kept talking myself out of it. I was like I love to eat and love to cook and entertain even more there is just no way that I can do that. Then I really started researching it. One night I got a phone call from one of my very good friends that I hadn't heard from in a while, she said tomorrow I'm having a gastric bypass...I was like no way...are you serious. Well I followed along with her and what she went through. I decided to check out her surgeon the hospital etc. I did all of the required classes in order to just get an appointment and went to my first appointment with the surgeon in August 07 and was in surgery October 21, 2007. I had an incredible experience I had the total gastric bypass I was only in the hospital overnight. I have only ever gotten sick once....and to date I have lost about 110 lbs. I went from a size 28 pants to a 14...I'm loving life and myself....my divorce will also be final in September 08.
