misty Y.
My entire life I have struggled with my weight. When I was young I would gain some, grow a bit and thin out and continued this cycle until I stopped growing taller. While I played softball I would stay a normal weight and I wish someone would've pointed out to me how important it was to get exercise in! Instead, I was allowed to eat whatever I wanted. Now, when I say I struggled, I'm talking about 15-20 lbs, not much more but it felt like a MILLION pounds when I wore a size 7 in 6th grade and my friends wore kids clothes or maybe a size 2. I hated when they made us weigh in like twice a yr in PE!! But I also had a C cup bra by 7th grade!!
At 15 yrs old I was a size 11 while my friends were between a 2 and a 5! I felt HUGE weighing 145lbs at 5'4.5". I started walking to school and back every day (a total of 6 miles a day...I thought the bus was for "nerds" lol) and I walked anywhere else I wanted to go after school to hang out with my friends and I got down to 120lbs, size 5 within 6 months. ....it felt GREAT!! and within 3 months of that I got pregnant (yes, pregnant at age 15). During my pregnancy I got very depressed since my boyfriend left me, figuring I would never find another boyfriend in my life (I was a teenager, mind you) so I ate EVERYTHING in site and sat on my ass ALL DAY....gaining 85lbs during my pregnancy!! It took me another yr and a half to lose it (I got a job, moved around a LOT at work and otherwise) and at 17or 18 got down to 135...size 9maybe....great weight for me! I stayed there until about 20 when I started dating my ex husband, got comfy around him and got up to about 155-160 and got pregnant again....gaining 75 lbs during that pregnancy (just thinkin I was "allowed" to eat for 2!!). I got down to 210 only when my daughter was 6 mo old and got pregnant again....and CRIED thinking I would weigh over 300 lbs by the time I had her. I "Only" gained 40 lbs with her. When my youngest was about 4 I started a new position at work that made me physically work hard and at the same time stared taking metabolife and got down from about 230 to about 170 and I chalked it up to the pills, not thinking abouthow much I was "exercising" ALLDAY at work. They took metabolife off the shelf and I gained back to 240 over the next 4 or so years when I decided to look into WLS. My ins required 6 mo weight loss attempt so my dr put me on phentermine where I lost about 20 lbs which he informed me Iwas too thin to have surgery (what a joke). So over the next 4 years I went on and off phentermine, gaining and losing weight....my lowest weight was 210, my highest was 235. I went to my new Dr in Oct, 2010 trying to have surgery and was told (at 230lbs) I was about 10lbs shy of qualifying so I made the decision to gain the weight and have the surgery....and in the mean time, my dr was unfamiliar with procedures so I changed PCPs to a Dr who was familiar and it took until July, 2010 to see the surgeon....by the time I got to the surgeon, I weighed 270 and just about crapped my pants!!!! In the next 3 months I lost 17 lbs (and worked VERY hard to lose that weigh) which brought me down to 253 when I had my surgery 10-10-11. I'm only 2 months out now but I have to say I'm SO glad I had RNY and I LOVE it, not regretting one single moment!!!
