AmandaDay
I was always the "thin one" in a family of overweight women. Although I was average by most standards, I was considered the thin one when the women in my family all weighed 200# plus. For as long as I can remember the "weight" issues in my family were blamed on genetics, not that we ate a lot of red meat, sweets, used food as rewards, and never paid attention to the way we ate; if it tasted good we ate it. I can say that some of our weight problem is genetics, most of the women in my family were average until puberty, and then we were the ones who developed "curves". It was then when the curse happened and those curves turned into rolls and then worse. I just thought that since I was the thin one that it would never happen to me, and that I would escape the curse even though all the bad habits were ingrained in my life. I did manage to hold off the curse for longer than most and maintained a healthy weight until I became pregnant when I was 20, and had the pregnancy from hades and gained 80 pounds with that pregnancy. It was an uphill battle from then on. I tried every diet, pill, and prescription I could get my hands on. I thought yo-yo dieting was just gonna be my life, until one day I got on the scale and was the heaviest I have ever been. I thought I had been losing weight and then I realized that I was just buying bigger and loser clothes to hide my weight gain. It was then I decided that I needed help and started to change my life, eating habits and codependency with food, and decided on WLS.
