hmartin
My story....... well I imagine it is very similar to everyone elses here. I have always had a weight problem and have never been "skinny" My weight has has gone up and down over the last seven years from my lowest 170 to my highest (just before surgery) 235lbs. Around Christmas of last year I had my weight back down to 200 lbs and then on Christmas Eve my mother was diagnosed with cancer. I was holding steady until I was told that she was terminal in Feb. As an emotional eater I can't tell you what this did to me. Once mom was moved to the hospice I basically went from work every day to the hospice and ate a lot of fast food on the way there and on the way home (usually atabout 11pm). Then my mom passed away on Easter Monday and all hell broke loose. All I did was eat to try to comfort myself, only making things worse as now I was lonely and missing my mom but I was miserable about the way I looked and felt. One day in May I just told myself that this was enough. I was tired of feeling like crap about myself and not living my life. I felt like I was ripping my kids off from having a good mom and my husband was missing out on having a happy, loving wife. And so my journey began, I went to my family doctor and asked for the referral, had my surgery on October 7 and now I am on the road to my "new, happier" life!
