amandaRN

I am 32 YO and mother of 2 young girls ages 9 and 11. I have been happily married 11 years. I have struggled with weight since 6th grade. I weighed 200 pounds when I graduated from high school. My lowest weight in my adult life has been 180 pounds but it was not long live (big sigh). The final straw was losing 115 pounds with diet exercise, and medically supervised with diet pills over the course of 1 year and then gaining back 75 pounds. AAAHHHH!!!!GRRRR!!!! My heaviest weight was 297 pounds and my weight at surgery as 257 pounds. My biggest fear is my girls will have the same issues I have had and I try everyday to help them not develop this issue and eat for fuel not pleasure. Hopefully, thi surgery will help me live by this standard myself so they can see that it is possible and that it means you have to work at it everyday starting now, not just when they think they want to be fit.