amelcherpratt
I was overweight from my earliest memory. Grew up in a household where my sister and brother and mother where not.. Always got the joke must have your dads genes. He was not large all the time but there were periods of my life remembering him obese. My mother took me to every kind of test to see if there was a problem w/my thyroid and everything else. To find that I was very healthy except for my extreme weight.. As the years went on so did my weight increase. After having my daughter in 94 I gained even more weight. Than unfortantenly my father passed away unexpectly in 2002. I was devestated.. I turned to food like I have so many times in the past for comfort. I found my self gaining weight so rapidly in the next year after his death but did not care at that point. I gained 85 lbs in one year. Than in 2004 I found the Lord and he changed alot of things for the better in my life. I got saved so did my family.. Thats when the real healing processing started changing. I found that dealing with depression and my fathers death was not going to come from eating. So I gave it to the Lord. That still didn't change my love for food so I still ate like nothing was wrong; so I continued to gain more weight. I was happy and things were better but I loved to eat the wrong things. I tried so many diets in my life and even did the atkins and lost weight and than found as soon as I thought I could eat normal I gained it back plus some since I could never eat carbs. So I started searching for a tool that would assist me in a change that to me done since I was not getting any smaller. I knew some people I worked w/who had the gastirc surgery and they had wonderful results. So I thought about it and found that was the choice for me. I tried to have it done in 2005 but my insurance would not cover it. I was crushed. So I found a new position that I knew there insurance covered the procedure. It's now 2007 and on 3/6/07 @ 332 lbs I had gastric bypass lapascropically. Im not still back to normal yet after surgery. but will be soon...
