foreverbrenner
Well my story...hmm...My story starts when I was born!!! I was the first child unexpected and born to two KIDS 18 and 19! After some pressure they were married one month before I was born and it was doomed from the beginning. Ever since I can remember my parents fought about everything both verbally and physically. The best way for me to deal with it was eating and Ive been overweight since I was five. When I was 11 my parents separated and divorced. Since I was overweight I really didnt have any friends in school so I felt like I had no one to turn to. My friend food was always there and never talked back to me or made fun of me or fought with me, it was the perfect friend. When I was about 14 I met some people who actually wanted to be friends with me and I was all for it up until then I really hadnt had many friends except for one. When I started hanging out with these new friends outside of school I found out that they did drugs. No big deal I thought I could stand my ground and not have to do them, but I was intriuged and after some time I gave in. What was intened to be recreation spiraled into an addiction transfer from food to drugs. I didnt gain any weight back then and I didnt need food like I thought I did before. When a teacher at school noticed what was going on and alerted the drug counselor at school I went to treatment. There I worked through everything that I had been medicating over the years. After treatment I struggled with it a little longer but when my boyfriend and future husband told me to choose between him and drugs I realized that he was way more important than the drugs so I gave them up. We moved in together the summer after I graduated high school and through the next two years got ourselves into a good amount of debt. The financial struggles were very difficult for both of us and I began to use food again to try and forget how bad things were. In the mean time I think I tought him how to abuse food and we both gained a lot of weight. By our wedding both of us were very obese. Things were better about 9 months after our wedding because we had our twins Cara and Caleb and we filed bankruptcy. We are now in a decent financial state and things are good except our weight. I am in the process of getting gastric bypass surgery and we are trying to correct our eating habits but it isnt easy!! We are taking it one day at a time, some are good and some are bad but we are trying!
