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lincy41
I felt desperate being overweight. Being so short and wide made it hard to find clothes that fit well. I wish I could have just been happy with what I was dealt because I am back to where I started and now have major complications. Knowing this now----I could have lost the weight performing the same exercises and watched what I ate. At least I thought I could. Now, today I will give you my timelin...
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Mal
I was overweight my entire life. I think my mom put me on my first diet when i was 9. She would yell at me all the time that I needed to go on a diet, yet she was the one buying all the food and feeding me, how is that fair?
I was the classic yo-yo dieter. I would go on either a crash diet (I've done them ALL) lose like 40/50 lbs. go back to regular eating and BOOM gain it all back quickly p...
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Mrsk1020
I was a emotional eater. I ate when I was happy, sad, bored, mad. It didn't matter, i just ate. It got out of control. I would binge constantly.
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msstaceya
I have always been a larger woman, even as a child. My weight never really bothered me as I always had a shape with it and my confidence level was always high. I had considered bariatric surgery about 13yrs ago after I had my daughter but got scared and decided against it. I went on living my life the way I always had been...as a plus size woman. I thought that was how it was going to be and th...
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Cornbreadasslady
After my divorce I was diagnosed with Lupus and then one thing after another.I did begin the rny process in 04 in Columbia Mo but insurance and such it was was on n off again process and I just gave up after 4 yrs of that. The predisone and all the surgeries has taken a toll. Avg weight of 150. I went to 301 after i stopped smoking and radical hyst. I finally after a heart attack Jan1 2012 decided...
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Jenysis
IT was always a struggle to lose weight and when I got depressed after my parents divorce, I stopped going out at all and I stopped caring about what I looked like so I just gained and gained. I had heard of the surgery and thought to myself that I didn't need that surgery and I could do it through dieting if I ever got too heavy.
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galbunky
I battled with being overweight from my early 20s when put on medication for depression, in over 6 months I had gained 100# I had always been active and continued to be over a period of time I got up to 490# and lost back down to 180# with the help of shots and diet pills in a 19 month period. I did alot of Jane Fonda excercise and maintained my weight, then I was diagnoised with bi-polar and agai...
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beagal70
I was a skinny flexible gymnast type child until I hit puberty at age of 10. Then my body stopped growing at a height of 5'1-1/2" and I went over 100 lbs. Of course the curves came way before I was ready to deal with the attention they brought and most of my friends were not dealing with periods yet. I was ashamed to wear tight clothes and quit doing the dance, gymnastics, and swimming. This made ...
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Lisa_K
My emotional journey isn't likely to be any different from anyone else using this site. We all have a similar painful story and probably a ton of guilt. I won't forget the pain. Some of it made me who I am today. I will not, however, let the pain rule my life anymore. I choose to let the heavy, useless baggage of guilt go. It's standing in the way of my escape from this "fat suit".
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ChorizaNicole
I have always struggled with weight for my 25 years of existence. I have gone up and down for many years finding the point of satisfaction when losing weight, then following with extreme depression when gaining after becoming comfortable and losing my original goal. I remember growing up not really being picked on about my size however always having friends who were smaller, faster and what I beli...
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smdriver
I am really disappointed in myself that my weight has got out of hand. I have tried diets gyms and exercise but the weight always comes back. I fill like I am sitting around doing nothing watching life go on with out me. I know there are things that my husband would do and would enjoy and my weight is holding us back. I felt like I was stuck with this curse and there was no REAL help. I have start...
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Barbi468
6/23/12- I was one of those people who could eat anything and not gain a pound. The people I like to Want to hate right now. :), well after I started having kids that all changed, after my son I was able to lose the weight, but after my daughter (2nd child) I found I was bigger, and harder to lose, the thought of how long it took me to lose the 40lbs from my son and now I had so much more to lose...
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tina west
Every since I was a small child I have battled with weight. Over the years it got worse.I was ready to give up and just take the bed. I decided I have alot to live for esp my adopted son Nehemiah
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Mizzbhaven
Before fifth grade I was always a decent bodied girl. Then the summer before 5th and 6th grade came along. The summer of my mom's divorce from her second husband... the one that threatened to kill us. My mom made us stay locked in the house all summer, trying to protect us. That is the summer that I gained 50 pounds! All there was to do was eat and watch T.V while my mother worked. Since then I ha...
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njsmm0812
I have struggled most of my life with weight issues as well as watching my mother do the same. I have seen her try diets from a chewy, to stapling her ear, hypnotism, weight watcher, creams, HCG, phen phen etc.. I myself have tried watching what I eat, weight watchers a few times, HCG, Phen phen, atkins, south beach. I lost 36 pounds in three months on atkins but the second I stopped I gained it...
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Desari63
Where to begin??? I have always been the "stocky built" girl ever since I can remember. I played softball when I was younger and then in High School played varsity soccer for 3 years so I was always "moving". Loved to go dancing and that kept the weight off but I was never the "skinny minnie" like a lot of my friends. Seems when I got pregnant with my son was when the real trouble started. I gaine...
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Ksdb8mama
I had spent about 25 years of my life steadily getting more and more heavy. I am a school teacher, married, with 2 grown children and 3 grandchildren. I was constantly wishing I had the energy, flexibility, enthusiasm for doing the activities. I had difficulty fitting into airplane, bus, etc. seats when traveling w/students. I could no longer ride w/my husband on his Harley.
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Courtney P.
I have always had weight problems, and it has always been a huge emotional problem for me. I was bigger ever since I was a little girl, and I cannot wait for it to change. I am ready to change my lifestyle; I am ready to get this weight off and do all of the things I have missed out on. I am ready to live my life.
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summergirl86
My weight has been up and down since my teen years. Sometimes I sought food for comfort, i.e. various flavors of Ben & Jerry's late in the night, smothering my feelings with ice cream. Very often I socialized around food, all my family enjoying wine, pasta, cakes and cookies together. Nearly everyone in my family is overweight, most are actually morbidly obese. I've tried diets, weight loss suppor...
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Jan Shaw
I spent a lot of time and energy eating, and ate a lot of fast food. No control. My pulmonologist suggested lap band surgery to me, saying it would help many of my comorbidities. I thought about it a long time before I realized I needed to do something for my health, and not just my appearance. At 64, appearance doesn't matter so much. But I have struggled with weight loss since the birth of ...
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spw7826
I considered bariatric surgery about 10 years ago when I had insurance that would cover it. I decided against it on several grounds: I thought the surgery was still a relatively new procedure and didn't do enough research; I was young (32) and worried about the long-term effects of the surgery; and most importantly, I hadn't yet given up on my ability to lose the weight myself - despite the fact...
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Stacey Kerby
i have struggled for years with my weight. December 2006, i was told i had 3 days left to live because the oxygen in my body was so low, that 3rd day was my 20th birthday. after i left the hospital, i maintained a diet so well that with in 6 months, May 2007, i lost 100 lbs. I was 365, and went down to 265. i maintained that weight for 2 years. I met my husband back in 2009, and out of no where i ...
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No-quitter
I felt like i was always in the way, ashamed because I don't have nice clothes, I felt like a slob, I had no one in my life because I ended up pushing everyone away
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SaraBurns
i have been overwheight since i got into high school i was verry active in middleschool with track softball and volleyball.. but in highschool i was bolleyed becuase of my wheight, i started to have problems with depression and everytime that i got deppressed i would eat.
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chowell
I have always been fluffy for as long as i can remember. I have tried every diet known to man, even under dr care. yea i was able to lose a few pounds and then gain back twice as much as i lost. As i started to have children my weight just got worst. I was told my weight had cased me to be infertile about 3 yrs ago and i had to go on clomid to have my youngest daughter. At 310 pounds i could not d...
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