Christian I.
I was not born fat.
Dec 04, 2009
My story starts a little different than most. I was not always obese or even overweight.
I played several sports most of my life and it was while training, for a gymnastics meet, that I injured my back.
This all happened when I was 17 yrs old. The pain was excruciating most of the time. Back surgery seemed more of a risk according to the Doctors. The ensuing depression, pain and total lifestyle change- sports came to a halt overnight- made my life barely tolerable. As I got larger, I had more back problems, more pain, more depression and it all became a vicious circle that gave way to Morbid Obesity 12 years later.
In early 2002 (I was 30) I had the surgery. Something didn't go right, because I passed blood and stayed at the hospital for 5 days. I was sure I had made the worst mistake of my life. Thankfully, the bleeding stoped on its own and I was finally released from the hospital. The upside is that I lost all my excess weight with in 6 months and have stayed there ever since. I'm was so glad that I had the surgery...so that's the short version of my story. :-)