Cynthia Snyder
"...but through God all things are possible!" Matthew 19:26
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APRIL 2013
I am really looking forward to speaking at the Butler Public Library on Monday April 29th, at 6:00 pm...the journey continues!
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I am still learning so much, even after seven-and-a-half years post-op!
Below: Me with my precious grandchildren, Eathan and Lexi, March 2013.
SPRING 2012
I was blessed to be one featured in O.H. Magazine's "Before & After" section last Spring. Thank you O.H. for your encouragement and for your part in my journey!
JULY 2011
January 2011
NOW AVAILABLE
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ABOUT CINDY'S BOOK:
Cindy Snyder shares her deepest thoughts, feelings and experiences in this diary/journal in hopes to encourage others and for her to never forget where her God has brought her. Being warned by her physicians that her life was at stake, she knew she did not have the willpower to deliver herself from this bondage. This book is the personal journal of Cindy's journey out of obesity. You will be led through this journey as to what life is like for the super morbidly obese person and is filled with descriptive and explicit hardships that the super morbid obese must daily live with. Cindy has tried to be as open and honest as possible and in some instances very detailed and graphic as to what "life" had become. Cindy not only shares the battles but also lets everyone experience the victories with her. Throughout her journey she shares Biblical teachings, humor and the joy that only God can give during trials in our lives. Her journal covers everything from menus and recipes, surgery and exercise, measurements and weights, personal care, before and after pictures, to her most inner thoughts and feelings. Her documentations will encourage all that read them, from the most slender person with their own struggles to the very obese. Through her journey, faith will be strengthened to believe that with God all things are possible.
The other day I was looking through year's worth of pictures of me to choose which ones would be right to give AuthorHouse for the book. I had sat for hours looking at pictures of me with my C-PAP mask on…pulling my oxygen tanks…seeing the sores on my arms…using a cane…walking with a walker…lying on the couch with my lymphedema legs pumps on…not able to move. By the time I put things away to get ready to go the youth center, I felt like a cloud of oppression was hanging over me. I felt so heavy…so yucky. I went to our bedroom and looked in the mirror and cried. I just had to double check and see if it really was real…that I was no longer that person. But as I had sat there looking into that woman's eyes I knew…I remembered how she felt…what she was thinking…the hope that she had that life would not always be this way…the faith that was getting her through each day waiting for deliverance from the humiliation and bondage. In some respects, I want to forget yet when we do, we can fall back into old habits. All I know is that she no longer exists, but I thank God for what He taught me through her.
ABOUT CINDY:
Cindy became a Christian in 1985, enjoys studying the Bible, and is active in their church, SeaBreeze Ministries, in which their son is pastor.
Cindy is the administrative director at the Filling Station Youth Center in Butler and serves on its board of directors and is employed by DeKalb County Community School District.
Cindy was host of the television programs Public Report and Tri-State Alive at WINM Christian TV throughout the 1990's.
She was founder and president of the DeKalb County American Family Association in 1986-1990, and was also active in Operation Rescue.
Repairing the Breach Marriage Ministry was birthed out of a trial in their marriage in 1990-1991. Their testimony has ministered to thousands of couples all over the world via the Internet.
Les and Cindy home schooled their children through Christian Liberty Academy Satellite Schools.
Even after becoming a discussion leader for a national weight loss program in the early 1980's, Cindy's battle with gluttony escalated out of control. She knows what it is like to weigh 118 pounds yet be addicted to food and exercise. She also knows what it is like to weigh 465 pounds and "live" life as a Super Morbid Obese person with eleven co-morbidity's and be on over thirteen medicines a day. She will be the first to tell you that it is a daily walk of God's Grace as to what she has been brought out of and where she hopes to remain.
"...but through God all things are possible!" Matthew 19:26
Below left, July 2005 before WLS.
Below right, in hospital after WLS, October 2005.
Below: These are the only pictures that I have with me with my walker. These were taken two weeks AFTER surgery at my surgeon's office. I weigh 449 pounds here.
Below right, is a picture of me wearing this same skirt 2 years later.
Me with my "Before" 6X slacks and homemade skirt. Picture was taken in October 2007 after a weight loss of 308 pounds - 2 Yrs after WLS.
Both pictures below are of my right foot a year before WLS. It was like walking on clubs. I usually had compression stockings on.
Below: January 2011
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December 2010
Below: Before WLS...My cheeks were so thick that when I spoke it sounded like I had marbles in my mouth, and I also spit a lot. Yuk, I know!!!
Below: Summer before WLS, 2005. I am sitting at the check-in desk at the youth center. Whenever I walked around, I had to walk leaning on and pushing the task chair that I am sitting on. 450+ pounds
October 2010
BELOW: Our Family Picture. This picture was taken on October 24, 2010.
Left to Right: Lathan, Cathy, Lexi, Layna, Cindy & Les.
July 2010
ABOVE: Grandma Cindy and Lexi - July 8, 2010.
BELOW: Grandma Cindy, Lexi & Grandpa Les - July 30, 2010, at Luau.
About Me
Before & After
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