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My Story
LS, age 40, Coquitlam
- April 2008
I want weight loss surgery because I am fat, not only am I
fat, I am obese. That is the first time I have said that to myself as I write
this letter. I haven't always been this way, I use to be thin and could eat
anything. A friend told me, it would catch up with me one day, and I didn't
believe her. She was right, I was wrong. Sometime between 93 and 97, not that
it is a haze, I really just don't remember when I started sticking my fingers
down my throat to lose weight. I thought it worked well at the time, but I quit
when I moved in with my now husband in Oct 97. At that time I weighed 134 lbs.
I kept on eating as if I was still purging, and the weight came on. I had a
health scare in 2002, (by that time I was 208 lbs) I was taken from the Nakusp
hospital to the Nelson hospital (by ambulance) with Keto-Acidosis, a
complication to diabetes. It was enough of a scare, to scare myself straight as
to taking care of myself and my diabetes and I lost 28 lbs and was now down to
180 lbs. Then one day I had three chocolate bars at work, I needed three to get
it out of my system. That was my biggest mistake and I never stopped. I eat
because I am bored, and I eat as if I weren't a diabetic and that is not good.
I can say that I haven't gained any weight in the last 10 months, I weigh 239
lbs, but that is absolutely nothing to be proud of. So why do I want weight
loss surgery? I want it because I am obese, I have had health scares and I
don't want any more, I want to be healthy, and at 40 I still want to have a baby
and to be around to watch them grow up, and to grow old with my husband.
Sincerely,
LS, age 40,
Coquitlam, |
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