SassySharon
So I'm from Ga, I grew up in a house as an only child for the longest. My Dad, was one of those parents that believed and told you constantly that, there were children starving in Ethopia, Africa everywhere, so you needed to eat what was on your plate. For a few years, I would sit there for over an hour moving the food around on my plate, but these were the years that you ate dinner together as a family. I learned that I could out sit them, I guess I never thought to ask for less food, you tend to eat whatever amount that your Mom puts on your plate. At some point it became easier to just eat it and get it over with, so going into elementary school I statred to gain, I was the largest girl in my class. But I tried to have the best personaility to cover it up, I figure if I keep I'm laughing that they wouldn't notice that I was FAT. In the 7th grade I was a size 14 and weighed 154 lbs. Still the biggest, I had the nerve to still want to be a cheerleader, couldn't jump that high. When you're younger one of the good things about being bigger was you were stronger than the others, so you would always be the one lifting the other girls. As I got older even though I was still stronger, I guess to everyone else I was fat, hadn't quite got it yet. I got it now. At my heaviest I was 244, I know to some thats not that big, but it was bigger than I wanted to be. Once I went to a diet doctor, he told me for my height and bone structure that I should weigh 11b lbs. at that time I weighed 218, I thought that was hilarious, I never sould see myself that small, but hey go figure. So about 10 years ago, I wanted to change, I begin to starve myself and work out constantly, lost down to a size 8 in the waist, 10 in the hips. I worked out 7 days a week, running, areobics, and lifting weights. I was die-hard. I loved where I lived, my gym, the track, trail, instructors. My plan was to look like all that I felt I was on the inside. Then I moved to Fl. where you would think that all of that would stay in place, wrong. Everything here was so spread out, it took forever to get anywhere, I tried to find a gym that would be similar to what I was used to, of course, I did it was 30 minutes away. When I first moved here, my plan was to continue to work out. I guess the truth is I got LAZY, I say this because I have an excelleny workout facility, at my job. I prefer the atmosphere of an aerobic class,its boring for me to do it by myself. Oh I moved to Fla. for a better job, then I was offered a better job contantly around food. When I first got here I was still a 10 in the hips, that 8 in the waist. Quality control, is what I call it tasting the foods. So I began to gain, again. May 7, 2007, I had Lapband, I was to scared to go thru with the Gastric, I had never been in the hospital overnight, I cried on the way to the hospital, FEAR. God knows, I wish that I would have went on and had the RNY, last year, so as you see I'm having it next month.
