frostylost
I am a 40 yr old happily married mother of 2 awesome children. First let me say I am a born again believer of Jesus Christ, I'm blood bought and heavenbound!! Glory to God! I was born and raised in the south along with 6 other siblings. We were raised on pintos, taters, cornbread and whatever else my mama could get her hands on to feed such a crowd. I never had a problem with weight growing up as a kid, I'm sure it had a lot to do with playing outdoors from dawn til dusk and attending chores whenever mama called on us. All through my highschool years I stayed around 125 lbs then at 18 I became pregnant...thats when it all started to change. Throughout the pregnancy I gained 25 lbs and after giving birth I was never able to get below 140 lbs again. Trying to get rid of that extra 15 lbs of "baby weight" was my downfall. Little did I know it would lead to 20 years of yo-yo dieting and adding an additional 140 lbs to the 140 I already weighed on a mere 5'3 frame. 10 years ago at age 30 I toyed with the idea of having a gastric bypass but at the time I was teetering between 200-210 lbs and thought surgery was still a little too extreme. The mere thought that I would consider something so drastic bolted me into action again. I ran to the local gym and signed up and started drinking slim-fast...here we go again. At age 34 I was up to 265 when I jumped on the Atkins bandwagon and it turned out to be the most successful of all diets I had tried. I lost 95 lbs in 8 months......and gained it all back within 3 years. Now here I am a couple of years later with 20 more lbs to add to it. Enough is enough, drastic times call for drastic measures...move over sleevers here I come!
