kfjsunflower
My Story
Aug 22, 2008
I was always a large girl growing up and have always been overweight. I remember wearing a size 18/20 womens when I graduated 8th grade, and wearing a 22/24 womens when I graduated high school in 1994. I graduated from Perry County High School. I went on a crash diet when I started dating. I dropped down to a size 8/10 within an 18 month period. I walked like 3-5 miles aday, and when I ate I threw it up when no one was looking. I smoked to curb my appetite. For once in my life I was skinny and everyone always told me how pretty I was. I kept this routine up until my mother found me passed out at 6am in the upstairs bathroom. The next thing I remember is I woke up the hospital, where they stuck me 17 times to get an IV in me. I was treated for food poisoning for about 3-4 days but wasn't getting any better. I finally fessed up to the doctor and my fiance. I was hospitalized for 14 days. I realized then and there that skinny didn't make me healthy and the way I was doing it was killing me.
I got married the next month and gained back to a comfortable 12 for my height of 5'11 1/2. One year later I got pregnant and gained 80 pounds. Lost 20 or 30 of that when I had my son. Then I fell and hurt my back and gained 40-50 more back. This went back and forth for a few years. I was wearing a 20W by this time. When my son turned 3 my husband was deployed to Iraq for over a year. Of course, I gained more weight. When he came home I got pregnant, then my baby died and I had to have surgery, I was very depressed and gained more weight. Then I got pregnant again and everything went well. But of course, I gained more weight. After my 2 year old was born, I was wearing a 26/28W and I tried a diet program at a weight loss clinic for 10 months and lost a big whoppin 20 pounds. That was very depressing. My doctor suggested I go to a seminar for weight loss surgery. I went to a seminar in Dickson, and got approved and had my surgery. I went into the program weighing over 350 pounds, and now 13 months post op I weigh 203. But I wear like a 14. I am OK with that. I have had no Plastic Surgery, but would like one day to have breast augmentation. I'm not worried about the rest. My husband says I'm beautiful just the way I am. I have exercised the entire time and am in the best shape of my life, both physically and most of all mentally.
