gabie
Im really grateful that I had the opportunity to be fat. To enjoy being fat. To learn from being fat. I have always been chubby and have really piled on the weight to obese range in the last 7 years. The reason i say the above is because it helped me grow a thick skin and to defy the stereotype. I was a very popular active overweight teenage girl. But unfortunately now I am in danger of dying young and i wont allow that to happen.
I am scheduled to have the surgery in June 2011. I am 24 years old and have unsuccessfully dieted my way through adolescence and into adulthood.
My health insurance is not paying for anything. These sort of operations are not taken very seriously in South Africa so I am using all my savings. I have to do this. I am positive about it and it'll be worth every cent!!
After the operation and recovery i hope to start a support network for others going through this journey. There is so little support out there for overweight people. This has become so obvious to me now.
I pray for us all going through this together, our day to shine will come! But we must always remember what it felt like to be miserable and stuck in a body that slows us down feeling like this is not the person we were meant to be. God chose us to be this way so that when we evolve we will never lose the compassion we have for others in the same boat. The body tells the story that the mind cannot and we all speak that language. Look forward to who you will become but never forget who you were.
Cant wait to be on the losing side!
