jazzylady
I am 35 yrs and have always been overweight. Even in elementary school, I was known as the fat girl and being tall didnt help it at all. In high school it was pretty much the same story, and I remember going on a crash diet the summer before my senior year and coming back having lost weight, but gained it all back and then some right after graduation. I can not remember when I was under 200 pounds....I believe it might have been when I was 20 or 21 yrs old after coming off of a strict strict diet that made me look really sick. I think that I have been on every diet that has came out...nothing really worked for me in the long run. I have used food to comfort past issues and heartaches, but have realized that overeating has caused me a lot of grief as well as the things that it was supposed to have comforted me from. This really came to be noticeable after I lost my husband four years ago. I battled depression and relied on food to help me out as it had for so many of my younger years. As each year passed after my husband died, I ate and became sedentary and not caring about anything. It was after giving my life to the Lord, that I realized that I was valuable and that he wants me to healthy and take care of the body that he has given me to steward over. So, I found myself in a position to take care of myself and get back my health....and thus weight loss surgery was my choice after great thought. I am now ready to enjoy the rest of my life and be around for my two children and enjoy this life that my Lord has given me. I have made up my mind that my second half of my life will be greater than my past and that my God has put me here for a reason and he has a great plan still for the rest of my life, and being unhealthy in weight and having the sickness due to being obese is not the plan. I want my health back and live the life he wants me to have and set a good example for my two children.
