Lynn I.
My Story,
Hmmm. Such a long one. Where should I start!? When I was a small child up until I turned 9 years old, I was so thin that my family used to sing a song to me. It went, Lynn, Lynn is as thin as a pin. It used to make me cry. Until I turned about 10 years old and everything changed. I still to this day am not sure. I started gaining weight and gaining weight. By the time I was in sixth grade, I was very overweight and always made fun of. I hated school. I hated life at the age of 12. Junior High was much worse. I will never forget the boy, his name was Carlos who taunted me every single day. He even used to spit on me saying I had no right to even live because I was to fat. He wasn't the only one but he was the worse. My parents took me to Doctors and of course they just said I needed to loose weight and put me on diet after diet. Sure, I would lose weight but gain it back and then some. My Father was full blooded Italian so eating was most of my life just as it was for most of my family who were all overweight also.
When I started High School, I went through allot of changes. I had been dating a boy since Jr. High and he decided to leave me in 10 th grade because I was so big. That devistaded me. I became depressed. I stayed that way up until even now. I started using drugs and drinking. I lost weight and allot of it. To make a very long story short, I gained all the weight back when I stopped using the drugs and drinking.
Time went on many things happened in my life in between. Then I lost my Mother to Cancer, became pregnant and gained 89 more pounds! I starved myself, took every over the counter diet drugs, went on all of the soup diets there are, saw a Nutritionalist and was put on the diebetic diet. I lost some of the weight never all of it. Seven years later, I became pregnant again. I gained 50 more pounds. Lost it all by stress and starvation but gained it back again within 2 years. I went on a Herbal diet and it took me 3 years but I lost 83 pounds. I felt wonderful but then I went off of the Herbal diet and gained back 100 pounds!
That was the story of my life. The Doc put me on prescription diet pills, I went on Atkins, South Beach we all know the drill. Finally last Feb. 2007, I found out that I now had Hypertention, High Cholestrol and I was so overweight I had gotten heel spurs. I was ashamed of myself. It was hard to do anything that a normal person can do. I told my Doc PLEASE, can you refer me to a weight loss surgery Doctor. Just to see if I qualify and if it would be for me. She was very hesitant but she did it.
Through all of the testing, that began in June 2007, I found other health issues such as sleep apnea. I was approved for RNY G.B. in December of 2007 and had my surgery on 2/25/2008. I know this is the hardest thing I will ever go through but with the help of The Lord, Holy Spirit and all of you here, I will have a new life. A better life. Something I haven't had in 29 years!
