Sallykate Losing Weight
How did I get myself into this mess anyway?
12/17/04
Hello again, I was reading over my profile and saw that I really haven't said anything about who I am or how I got myself into this unhappy situation. So here it is. I am a 5'3", 33 y/o wife to a wonderful hubby and mother to 4 beautiful children. I grew up in British Columbia, Canada 30 miles from the Yukon Territories border. My family and I lived 120 miles from the nearest town without running water or electricity in a log cabin. My father, a missionary and pastor began a work there to the Indians, trappers, gold miners, outfitters and whatever stragglers might be passing through. We lived off the land and relied on the wild life for our meat. Every fall we had to hunt for at least one moose and one bear to feed our family of 6 for the winter. Needless to say, this was a very physically demanding lifestyle and we were all fit as fiddles. I was never a pound overweight until we moved back to the USA, graduated high school and then later had my first child. When I got pregnant with my dd I weighed 120lbs. When I went in for delivery, I weighed 193lbs. I had three more children and had all four in just over 5 years time. Each were enormous babies. Not one under 9 lbs. with my son weighing the largest at 10.5 lbs My last two pregnancies I was a gestational diabetic. I never recovered from all the weight I gained with each baby and only climbed higher in the pounds department. After my last dd was born I seemed to just have leveled out and stuck there around 250. At the beginning of this year I had crawled up to 275lbs. and I went in for a hysterectomy on 1/7. By March I weighed 304lbs. I was devastated and went into a depression. For three years I had been researching WLS and finally at this point knew it was something I simply HAD to do for my health's sake and my life. I hurt constantly. I have to sit in an electric wheel chair to shop because of the pain in my back. I have sleep apnea and use a CPAP machine at night. I am borderline diabetic, just found out I have GERD and have begun having anxiety attacks when I go out in public because of my size and fears of people and crowds. Let me just say NOT like me at ALL. I am miss Social Bug...was. I am doing this for me and for my family to have a better quality of life. I know people say you should do this for yourself but in reality I have hampered my family's life because of my limitations. We cannot hike or even go for a short walk in a park much less ride bikes ...as a FAMILY. Dad goes with the kids and "FAT" mommy stays home. I do not want to hold others back anymore because of MY weight. I want OUT OF THIS PRISON! So that is me in a nutshell.
Love and Blessings,
Sallykate
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