Papoose79
Well it's a plain and simple story but I will tell it another day when I have time to write a book! It's not quite short and definitely not as long as it could have been!
Here is a shorter version of “my story.” I am 3rd generation super morbidly obese. I am 29 years old, about 5’1 and 273 lbs (March 9, 2009) and somewhat active as I work full time, go to school full time and have 4 small children...yes I am super busy! I will have to say my highest weight was in December 2007 when I was 7.5 months pregnant, I weighed in at 292 lbs and I was freaking out! Well I had gestational diabetes and delivered an 11 lb 22 inch baby at 36 weeks not because the baby was in immediate danger but because, I say, he didn’t have much room to move! However, I was really happy about the safe and early delivery via C-section!!!
I was considered the fat active kid in all the neighborhoods we moved in. I played all the sports everyone else played and you better not had picked me last because needless to say, the other team lost because I had to out shine everyone else being the fat kid in the group. I can’t really say that I was tormented and teased throughout my life because one thing everyone knew about me was that if you started clowning, you had better brought it all because once again needless to say they were the ones leaving and crying not me! So I guess you can say that I am pretty much confident in myself no matter what size or skin I am in.
I remember going on my first round of diets when I was like 3-5 years old. In 2nd grade I weighed in at 133 I remember it because they always did our weight in front of the class at school and for some reason the teachers thought it would be nice to weigh everyone in front of everyone else by announcing our weights for the charts out loud. Then in 6th grade I weighed about 193 lbs and for most of my high school years I was between 190-215, then my Junior/Senior year I lost a lot of weight (188 lb) to only gain it back from my 1st pregnancy which I made it to my then highest weight of 264 lbs! After I had my daughter whom was 10.9 lbs no diabetes they pumped me up with Deprovera….let me tell you had I known rapid weight gain was a condition I would have never let them force it on me, I mean I was married who needed birth control…well I was treated like all other young unwed mothers and it’s not nice.
After reaching 281 lbs the clinic where I got my shots at was like 20 more lbs and we are recommending that you stop taking this shot. I was like wtf, why wait until I have gained a total of 100 lbs before taking me off of the shot! Well I took myself off of it and then lost 40 lbs without dieting at all, and then I got pregnant again gained only 14 lbs for that pregnancy and lost another 30 lbs after having the baby. So now I am looking good right, I can continue losing right, heck no. As I mentioned before my mother had to have WLS to loss enough weight to be healthy so I decided if dieting didn’t work out WLS would be my last result. So in 2002 after having my 2nd child I decided that it was time to get WLS because I can lose the weight but not enough to be healthy and I can’t maintain it without some kind of outside help. I was approved for the surgery by my PCP and the surgeon but something happened right before my last required appointment before I had to wait for a surgery date.....I found I was pregnant for the 3rd time 3 days before that appointment! After speaking to a few people that had WLS and then gotten pregnant, I decided to make sure I was done having kids because who wants to lose weight and then gain it back!
So here I am in 2009 one year post partum and I so ready to get this over with........I am again starting over with a different PCP, Insurance, and life span. I am tired and eager to get this over with, and hopefully with the records of me going back and forth to Jenny Craig, Watch Watchers, Medifast, Acai berry pills, WuYui weight loss, tea, Green tea pills, etc the insurance company see that I am ready to be healthy before I actually get dehabilitating health issues.
