I have been trying to lose weight for a few years now. Going to the gym, walking, and trying different diets. I gain a lot of weight over the course of four years when I had hurt my wrist and had to had three surgeries over that four year span. I honestly didn't even realize that I had gain so much weight, which might sound weird, but its true. It is as if I woke up one day and...BOOM, I was over two hundred pounds overweight.
Not like I have been a skinny kid my whole life, I have had weight issues since I was young. Was made fun of a lot up through Jr. High, to the point that when I got into shape playing football and track and field I still thought I was fat. I look back at old pictures of myself during my senior year and seeing what good shape I was in, and makes me think how I held myself back thinking I was still overweight. I am more comfortable in my body now way overweight, then I was when I was in high school.
With years of bad eating habits I got from my parents and the fact that I love fast food, I was not on the right track. Let me make it clear, I don't blame my parents for my weight. They did set me off with some bad eating habits, but as I got older I knew how I was eating was not healthy, yet kept on eating what I wanted. I use to work for a furniture company and ate fast food almost everyday. I kept myself pretty even with my weight from moving up and down stairs and getting in and out of the bobtails everyday. The metabolism of a teenager/early twenty year old also was a big help keeping my weight in check.
Fast forwarding to that doctors appointment, I found out that I was at the most weight that I have ever been in my life. I knew I had to do something, and something fast! I am not that old at thirty seven, but I am not that young either. The older you get, the harder it is to lose a lot of extra weight. The doctor suggested I go to a orientation for weight loss surgery. I was reluctant to go, I never thought I would need to do something like that, but after talks with family and friends, I went. A little info never hurt anyone.
After going to the orientation, I came up with a plan with my doctor. We set up a diet plan, that can be testing! I have also step up on my exercise by walking everyday and going back to the gym at least 3-4 times a week. I did have a little set back in June, but over all from January to June I have lost a total of thirty five pounds. The doctor wanted me to lose forty pounds before he would do the surgery from when I met with him after the orientation, so from that time on I have lost twenty six pounds.
As I get closer to that goal, I think of all the things I have had to miss out on wanting to do. Such as going to amusement parks and other fun activities that my weight would prevent me from doing. I have gone to places and seen the chairs and worried about if the chair could hold me up. That is one of the biggest fears to have, going to a friends wedding for example and hoping, even praying that the chair does not break. Yes that has happen. I am tried of having that fear, its not a way to live. Skipping out on sports events or concerts if there was no lawn seating. I don't want to worry about things like that.
It is time to get control back of my weight and not letting it stop me from living life the way I want to. I might hit bumps in the road, but I will not let it stop me from reaching my goals. I am not doing this for anyone else but me! I know my family cares and wants me to lose weight, but I need to do this for me and not worry about anything else. Time to stay strong and time to defeat and overcome this weight.
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