Gayle M.
In High School I was thin, I wore "normal" size clothes. I didn't have a problem with food then. Even after being pregnant the pounds just dropped off. I still didn't feel I had a problem with food and my weight. Until my daughter was 4 months old and I found out that my dad had committed suicide. That was and to this day has been the most tragic time in my life!! I never was a drug use kind of person, so that was not an option for me "to cope", I wanted to drink alcohol to ease the tremendous pain I felt, but I had a baby to care for. I was a single mother. So that was not an option either. Food was the only thing left that I found was my constant. It was always there for me. It didn't care if I was happy or sad, looked good or like crap. I could eat, fill that void inside me and for a while feel better. Now over a 19 year period it has become my way of life. But, I have been working hard to change that. I am young and have way to many health problems to keep living this way. I want to live a long life and not worry every day if I am going to die young. I am so hoping that having Gastric Bypass Surgery gives me my health, life, and freedom back.
