kan_dice

I've struggled with my weight for all of my life. I grew up in a household run by diet culture. We drank Diet Coke with dinner, instead of a glass of milk, received congratulations for skipping meals, and watched all the women in the family trying every diet fad in the book. I was at around 200lb at the start of high school, and wore a size 20 by my junior year. It was during my senior year of high school that I really started the extreme yo-yo dieting. I could lose weight, sometimes 10-15lbs, and sometimes 50 or more, but I would always gain it back, and then some. At my lowest weight, I "maintained" by essentially starving myself. I'm now at my highest weight and just want a solution that will last, without me having to be starving, obsessive, and miserable. I want a healthy relationship with food. I want to be able to live life and not have my weight dictate what I can and cannot do. I'm hoping the sleeve can be one of the tools that will help me achieve long term success. I'm nervous, excited, anxious, but above all.. ready.