angelsmom89
I suspect that my story is like many here.
I have been overweight in one form or another since about age three. By the time I was about 8, my mother was already despairing of my weight and offering me diet aids (Ayds), clothes, horseback riding lessons, etc. As we had very little money, the idea of those things underscores how desperate my mom was.
I still remember her being angry with me in 5th grade for eating too many cookies at a 4H meeting. She told me I looked as though I were 5 months pregnant. While that is no longer painful, I clearly have never forgotten it.
The rest of my life has been filled with binging, purging, diet attempts, weight loss and subsequent regain, depression, self loathing, delusions (if I lose weight my life will be wonderful and guys will like me). Haha, I at least have disabused myself of that notion.
I was never interested in weight loss surgery until I took a friend to a seminar on gastric banding. I heard of VSG for the first time ever. I thought about it more and more and have decided to do it once I can bully my insurance company into paying for it.
Thank you for taking the time to read this!
Anita
