NikkiL2015
OK, my story... well what can I say I'm overweight! Newsflash! I have been overweight all of my life. I was the chubby one in school, I was the chubby sister, whom my other sisters swore I was adopted. In all actuality they did have a different birth father than I did. It was a painful youth growing up as "the fat one". I watched my mother take my sisters shopping for school dances and prom dresses and so forth, yet she would send my dad with me to "find something that looks nice". My sisters were both skinny and pretty, I was always the "cute" one. I never dated in school. Out of school I made the mistake of accepting attention for love, I had two children with a, lets just say, very wrong man. So I'm a single mother of two beautiful boys and it seems as though each year I seem to get larger and larger. I am at a point of no return now, I have to do something or I won't get to continue to be on Earth with my children.
I have been contemplating surgery for about 5 years now, kinda wish I would have just done it when I first started looking in to it. But, not sure I was ready for it then, and I KNOW I'm ready for the life changes now! One of the deciding factors was going to Vegas with my parents and my nephew, flew there just fine, on the way home, the attendant realized they over booked the flight and called me out in the LV airport in front of everyone wanting to know why I didn't by 2 plain tickets for over-sized passengers. I was mortified. I haven't been on a plane since. I went to the lake with my kids last summer, as I was walking into the water there were some boys that "mooed" at me like a cow and later felt it necessary to pelt the fat lady in the head with rocks. It was very demeaning and I tried not to show how bad this hurt in front of my kids. We went on a paddle boat, we were stared at as I was too heavy and then eventually flipped the boat, my 11 year old was crying in embarrassment. So July 6th is surgery date! Bring it on!!!!
