nuvanna
I have always been overweight. I remember going into kindergarten average size, but because I was such an over-achiever and always got a prize (candy) at the end of the week, I was probably 20 lbs heavier on the day of Kindergarten graduation. From there it just progressed. I was always the chubby kid in my class, always a bit bigger than everyone else. My entire family had weight issues and with stress, and problems that issue kept getting bigger and bigger. I dieted and yo yo most of my life, but to no avail. I married the month after I graduated college to a great guy that loved "big girls" (lol) and I continued blissfully on this journey, of eating and dieting. We had two beautiful daughters, and after the birth of my second daughter I weighed 275 lbs. My husband and I separated, and I decided to make some changes in my life. I embarked on my most successful diet plan ever losing a whopping 45 lbs. Two years later we divorced, he passed three months after our divorce and I lost control. I tried the next few years to regain my composure and get back on track, but the scales just kept rising until I reached my heaviest weight of 297 lbs. I attended my first WLS seminar in May 2010. I went as support for someone else, because I didn't think that WLS was for me. During the seminar I realized that it had to be for me 34 years old with a BMI of 53.0, how could I go on. I needed to do this for me any my entire family. While in the pre-op stages of doctors, nutritionist and psych consults, on June 26 I lost my mother to complications from congestive heart failure and diabetes, all things that could have been helped through weight loss and I made a final decision that I did not want to be this person anymore. I wanted to be healthy and strong. So here I am!
