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I'll try to be as truthful as possible here... due to my previous site falling into the wrong hands, I have to sort of
watch it, you know?
HAVE I ALWAYS BEEN FAT?
No, although I can say there have been only a few years when I would say I was "happy" with my weight though. I wasn't
especially fat or thin in high school and I wasn't exceptionally popular or unpopular.. I would say I always tried to stay
active and used to be in all sorts of athletic and dance ventures. In my early 20's, I lost weight and looked decent (see
pic below.)
HOW DID THE WEIGHT HAPPEN THEN?
Well, I'd like to say I just woke up and it was just there but it's something that gradually happened that I ALLOWED
TO HAPPEN. Yes, I admit it. How could I think those nights out with my friends drinking and getting Jack n the Box on the
way home wouldn't catch up? That's something you should know about me.. I enjoy fast food. I actually have gotten to a point
now though where I am sort of sick of it.. had it too much. That is so sad. I have been battling back and forth, yo yo-ing
for the last five years with great degree. The difference being 100lbs if you can believe it.
MEDICAL ISSUES?
I hate hate hate even bringing it up because it is SO EASY for me to try and put my weight on medical issues..and I can't
say that if you met me in person that I wouldn't try to excuse my appearance with my medical stuff. Yes, I have had some serious
medical issues but it's not totally why I'm fat. I'm fat because I can't say no to food or use food in a healthy way for an
extended amount of time.
To explain, I have a digestive disease for which I get easily sick (not vomiting you understand..
like upset stomach leading to.. well, you know) as well as I had my thyroid completely removed a
few months ago because I was diagnosed with possible thyroid cancer. Turns out it wasn't cancer and now I have this snappy
scar across my neck. It's actually been a good thing for me I think because it reminds me how scared I was when I thought
I might have cancer and how short life really is. Anyway, my thyroid wasn't functioning before I had it removed so I could
*use the excuse* that my low functioning metabolism, (then AND now), is why I'm fat... but the dr's have assured me that
with my medication, I am just like anyone else with a weight problem.. I need to diet and exercise to lose the weight.
Besides, do bum thyroids tell you to order a pizza for yourself when your husband is out of town?? Hm.
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145 lbs in 1999
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246 lbs in 2005
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Tidbits...
- I'm married to my college sweetheart.
- I have no children... want some someday, just not now.
- I'm 28 but feel like I'm 22 still.
- I teach at a high school (but that's all I can say about that.)
- I'm originally from the northwest and miss it sometimes.
- I had a breast reduction in 2003 to go from a size 40E to a 36C... which of course now, being
fatter than I was when I had the surgery, am back up to a 40C.
- Some things I love include: eating (duh), Dane Cook, Jeremy Piven, my pillowtop mattress and sleeping in, the show "Veronica Mars", diet and weight loss books (trust me, I've got them all), the musical stylings of Bran Van 3000 and Dashboard Confessional,
wasting time online, ordering crap from amazon.com, friends from the WW boards, and much more.
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