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My name is Angel. I am 32 years old. I have been overweight since I was about 19yrs. old. I moved out at 18 with my highschool sweetheart to California. {We have now been together almost 17yrs!!} I was always thin, active, walked to and from school all the time. I know I had some type of an eating disorder when I was a teen. My mother never allowed me to "graze" like a cow, would only allow me to eat lower grade foods than my brother and sister. They could have turkey sandwiches, I could have bologna. They could have yummy cereals and I could have corn flakes. Now they are almost 14yrs. younger than me. They were young and I was a teen. My mom had me at 15yrs. old and tried many years to have my bro and sis. They were IVF babies. Anyways, I was never a breakfast person so missed that, rarely had lunch because we either didn't have the money for lunches or I just didn't eat. When it came to dinner I was starved!! My thing was I would come home and wait for my mom to go to the gym and then I would raid the cabinets. Eat a little bit of everything I could find, like all the good stuff I was not allowed to eat. I do not know why my mom would keep stuff me {wasn't always like this way}. As time went on, I would babysit other peoples kid's and find my self raiding their cabinets and having one of everything. Luckily I was active so it wasn't a problem at this point. I moved out the day I turned 18. Of course I was scared, homesick! I ended up having a miscarriage a week after we moved to California {not knowing I was even pregnant!! I had been on the Norplant for a year!!} This ended up spiraling down hill and becoming very depressed. Food was becoming more and more of a comfort for me. The weight started creeping up and was becoming heavier than I had ever been. Of course we couldn't afford to eat right so it got worse. I went from 117lbs to 189 in over a year. I went on a diet that was followed by a dr. he prescribed pills, I walked every morning and ate better. I lost 30lbs. but then got pregnant with my son. I was a sugar addict which didn't help either!! I gained 30+lbs back with my son and never lost it again. Food has always been a comfort, happy, sad, mad you name it! I had my daughter two years later and only gained 12lbs since I was sick and my mom died. weight has crept up ever since with the stress of now being a parent to basically four kid's {bro and sis were 8.5 when our mom died} my dad didn't know what he was doing with them. Food has always been there for me. Thank God I have a husband who has loved me skinny and fat and never judged! My weight has crept up more over the years, highest 230lbs. It started to affect my health [BP meds.} this was the light bulb that went off in my head and said you know what I am too young to have high bp!! I need to do something now!! So this is where my weight loss story begins. I am happy I did this for me and no one else. I am sooo looking forward to being skinny again!! I have tried many diets, workouts but always gave up. This band is going to work for me
