An English girl looking for acceptance and normality....
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This Buddy last logged in at 23-12-2009
Birthday: 10-07-1968
E-mail address:
salsha68@aol.com
AIM Address:
salsha68@aol.com
This is my story
Hi my name is Jane....I am 39 years of age and live in the Lake District with my partner of 7 years and my two children aged 13 and 17. I have always had a weight problem ever since I can remember. At 14 yrs of age I went to weight watchers to loose weight and managed to sucessfully get to my target weight. However I then got fed up of eating diet foods and the weight slowly went back on and more on top. By the time I had my son 17 years ago my weight had crept up to 16 stones...by the time my daughter was born 5 years later I was up to 19 stone 6 lb. I then went to slimming world and lost 6 stone and felt great. However I again felt better and started eating the wrong things again and my weight crept up again. On a positive note I am tall 5ft 9 inches so at least my fat is stretched out abit.
I moved to the Lake District in 2000 and was again 19st 6lb. I had a hysterectomy in 2003 and stopped smoking at the same time and in April 2006 I tipped the scales at a whopping 26st 10lb. The crunch time came for me when I went in hospital in June 2006 for a routine operation and the anaethetist cancelled this whilst I was on the operating table waiting for the anaethetic because he deemed me too much of a health risk with a BMI of 58. I felt fat, ugly, degraded and wanted the ground to open up and swallow me up. I felt sorry for myself and approached my GP and asked for information regarding weight loss surgery. The PCT granted my funding for surgery and I was referred to Mr Small in Sunderland. I am due to go into hospital for a gastric bypass on the 13th March 2007 and am currently weighing in at 21st 9lb after successfully losing 5st 4lb by the use of medication, diet and exercise. Some may say well why not carry on the way you are going without surgery but I know that I will again reach a level/ stage when I start eating the wrong things again and my weight will creep up again.
I am desperate to feel normal and to be able to do normal things like being able to go to the cinema and not worry that I won't fit in the chairs, be able to fit in a normal seat on an aeroplane, go to a fun fair and go on the rides, go to a restaurant and not have to worry that the chairs have arms on them and will I show myself up trying to fit in it. These are things that thin people take for granted....I need to feel normal and feel the only way I can achieve this is with the help of surgery. I want to feel special and look good, have clothes that make me look sexy instead of wearing stuff too big so it hides all the lumps and bumps. Does anybody else feel like that too?
I have joined this site because I am desperate to meet other people in the same situation as me and also those that have opted for surgery too as a way out of the hell hole they have found themselves stuck in. On a positive I will be able to shop at other shops other than Evans and I will be able to sell all my old clothes on Ebay and make some money to buy me a whole new wardrobe....Watch this space...
FOR FURTHER UPDATES ON HOW I AM DOING SINCE MY SURGERY READ MY BLOGS, SAY HELLO ON CHAT, WATCH MY VIDEO'S LINKS TO YOU TUBE IN MY BLOG SECTION AND LOOK AT MY UPDATED PICS.
