Ashlee R.
My name is Ashlee, im 24 years old and live in South Australia.
Iv battled obesity since I was about 15 years old and every kilo I’ve put on in the last 10 years, I could never take off no matter what I did. I was such an active kid growing up; I was a state championship Irish Dancer! That is my absolute passion! My number one goal is obviously to get really fit and healthy and start a family with my fiancé, and my number two goal is to be able to do what I love best! I want to dance again! It’s a terrible feeling wanting to do something so bad and have an obesity condition that is out of control and prevents you from doing things!
At the moment I run my own Irish Dancing School, where I teach 23 children every week, and it breaks my heart not to be able to get up and dance properly with my students, for lack of energy and with my weight, I would hurt myself! I had my LAP-BAND surgery done on the 19th September 2011, Weighing in at an embarrassing 126.5 Kilo! My first few weeks in recovery were hard but I look at the big picture, and that pushes me to hang in there! I also had some complications with band inflations, and unexplainable pain that is still under investigation, but not so severe anymore, so my whole process has been a lot slower to start off with, but I well on my way now! I’m still totally excited in using my band as a tool to my success in losing my weight, with my new and improved eating habits! Let’s do this!
