angieboyd

From the time I was a teenager I have always been overweight. When I was seventeen I was 175 and had become pregnant with my first child. That was the last time that I have seen a one at the beginning of my weight. When I delivered her at the age of 18 I weighed in having her at 201. When I had my second daughter two and half years later I weighed in at 240. I tried to lose weight after having my daughters only to be able to lose at the most twenty pounds. I have tired weight watchers, the Atkins diet, the grapefruit diet and any other's that are out there. I have been a member of the Y in my community and have also been a member of Curves. All without any success. I have learned to do portion control and this has been able to help me with the maintaining of my weight. Not a bad thing being as i have not went up, but not where i want to be. I had thought about doing the lap-band a few years ago and decided against due to I didn't think it would be something for me. I thought it was for those that weighed more then me. After my third daughter was born and the decision was made that I didn't want to have anymore, I thought now I can finally get my weight under control. WRONG I had again did the up and down thing, with no success at going below two hundred. The decision for me to finally come to doing this was after I lost my mother in march of this year to cancer. I realize that life is to short and being overweight is not only unhealthy for my body but for my mind as well. I always make jokes about it not bothering me and that is my way of dealing with the problem. I am doing this for me and my children. I want to be able to be around for them and do the things that they want to do. I want to be able to go running with them without stopping because i am winded from the fat!  My mother had always wanted me to be happy and she knew that being overweight was always something that had depressed me. One of the things that she had said to me was to be happy with myself. Doing this procedure will help me to loss the weight and give me more motivation to find my happiness and do what she wanted.