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justawoman · 01-31-2008, 11:04 AM

Thanks Zen. This is very interesting. As I was always "normal" until 3-4 years before my surgery.

To make a long story short. I was always thin growing up, normal BMI until I had my first daughter when I was 19 years old, I went from 135lbs to 216lbs while pregnant, I was very sick my pregnancy had toxemia, gest. diabetes and such. After her delivery I had lost all but about 30-40lbs from my original weight. Poof pregnant again now with an extra 30-40lbs only gained about 60lbs with my son lost about 20lbs but by this point I was about 50-60lbs overweight still not that bad then 3 years later I got pregnant with my last daughter and only gained about 45lbs lost nearly none of that weight so I was up to about 75lbs overweight then after one year I was diagnosed with cancer and was put on predisone and with raditation and chemo I gained about another 40-50lbs so now I was about 125lbs over weight then after all that I developed severe anxiety and was put on anxiety medication and with not leaving the house and the combo of meds somewhere I gained some more weight and as you can see from those rough figures I became obese somewhere. I stayed that way for roughly 3 years and could not move that weight and I was getting more and more depressed and I had a family history of obesity as I have said in other posts my father was almost 500lbs when he passed away and I refused to die the way he did so decided to have the surgery while I was still young enough and healthy enough and start living again. I think I made the right decision for me, but I do believe people need to consider everything when making the decision as I have had a hard time maintaing my weight, I lost my weight super quick and became extremely thin very quickly and most people I have talked with said it was probably because I was only obese that short amount of time and my body just went back to normal but it was scary for me for some time not being able to eat well and watching myself vanish.

Thats my little story!