Hi I'm Mo Mum to 3 adult girls and Granny Mo to my 2 lovely Grandsons.
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This Buddy last logged in at 05-05-2010
Birthday: 25-08-1961
This is my story
Hi I have dieted all my adult life. When I was a teenager I was very sporty but I move area and school and my bad eating habits, picked up as a child continued. I look back and see that this is where my real weight problem began.
I didn't really understand the values, calorific or type until after I first joined Weight Watchers back in 1980. The exchange plan taught me about which food where proteins, fats etc. I still took onboard all the dieting myths though. I had no staying power as this time in my life. I did loose a stone and a half for my wedding in 1983 but strangly enough I didn't realise that at 10 stone 7lbs I was now no longer overweight and still felt fat. Weight Watchers had very strict ideas on what an ideal weight was back then and told me I had to slim to 9 stone 7lbs to become a target member.
Six months after my wedding I became pregnant with my first child, a son Daniel. I ate for two throughout my pregnancy and found I was carrying 4 stone overweight by the time Daniel was born. Daniel died when he was 7 weeks old ( a cot death) I lost 2 stone in 6 weeks. This weight came back on with the comfort eating. 8 months later I was pregnant with my second child and yes another 4 stone later I had another unsuccessful stab at dieting. My third child was born 21 months after my second child and this time I weighed nearly 18 stone when she was born. I went back to Weight Watchers and lost 60lbs (4 stone 4llbs) over the next 6 months. I felt that I couldn't make the life changes I needed for my weight loss to become permanent. I fell pregnant with my 4th child and put on all I had lost previously. Although my level of exercise increased ( running about after a young family) and I sometimes skipped meals, I found I took weight off without the aid of a slimming club.
Then I got to a stage in my life where I felt life was passing me by and I'd not achieved in the workplace. I took myself back to college and retrained in admin. I found myself working a full time job at the college where I had trained and my weight soared sitting behind a desk all day. I was feeling so tired, depressed and I was at war with my husband all the time. I went to the doctors who referred me to the hospital for sleep aponea. For the next 12 months I found myself going to bed with a rather unsexy mask attached to my face, which pumped air through my lungs all night long. I still felt tired all the time, to the point where I was falling asleep, sat up, at a moments notice. The doctors found I had an underactive thyroid, which I believe contributed to the last 4 stone I had put on. By now I weighed 21 stone. Off to the slimming class I went....Slimming World this time. I found this a great plan to be on.......until I got bored..... I wouldn't say my favourite place is the kitchen behind the stove. Slimming World showed me I could eat large meals. Portion control isn't part of the plan if your eating 'free foods'. Trouble is when I started to fall off the plan I found that although there are many 'lifestyle changes' I have maintained..........there are many bad habits that have crept back too. I lost.....yes you've guessed it.........another 4 stone with slimming world in the first 8 months. Although I have attended the group and stayed to Image Therapy almost every week I still find that I have put on 3 of the 4 stone I initially took off. This has happened a couple of pound here and there.
I am miserable and I find that I am constantly fighting with food. I recently went to the doctors with some new ailments......ashtma and swelling in my lower legs every night. I am constantly in pain with my back and take painkillers daily for my headaches. After a frank discussion with my doctor he has referred me for a gastric band........his suggestion. I have always been horrified at the thought of choosing to have this type of evasive surgery believing myself to be a failure to need this type of an op. I have been researching gastric band surgery which has lead me to here. I would love to hear your stories - good or bad about having a gastric band fitted. If I am to have this surgery it will be because I have made an informed decision that it is what I need to do to give me the quality of life I need.
