Bouncing off a FB post - how old were you when you went on your first diet?
My sister also had the DS - so no competition there - but it's my mom that I think is jealous. She will not compliment me now to save her life, except to tell me that I'm too thin, and that women my age are not supposed to be that thin, that it's "unnatural."
Duodenal Switch 08/09/06 - Dr. Paul Kemmeter, Grand Rapids, Michigan
HW: 282 - 5'4"
SW: 268
GW: 135
CW: 125
Next one was WW in fourth grade, then again in sixth grade.
In the summer between sixth and seventh grade, I broke my arm and spent a few days in the hospital. The doctor grabbed the opportunity to order another 1,000-calorie diet. I was well past puberty, 5-5 and weighed about 150-160.
In seventh grade I was the gym teacher's pet project, both for weight loss and for evangelism.
Let's see, first attempt at TOPS was in there somewhere. "Ayds Candies" diet was before 6th grade. OA appeared after 8th grade, which was when I started seeing a recovery-minded counselor, herself a very ****** up 12-stepper. Dexatrim was early senior high school, I think. Maybe earlier.
My first ruptured ovarian cyst happened end of 8th grade. I had horrible cystic acne much earlier, starting in fourth grade or so. Episodes of shakes, headaches and fainting we all recognize now as hypoglycemia throughout high school.
Graduated high school weighing maybe 190 at 5-7 and believing I was a blimp.
I was about 10 when i began to pack on the lbs because of puberty. My first diet was 2 tbsp of apple vinegar before every meal. I remember gagging try to get that stuff down, then it was on to the grapefruit diet:)
My relationship with food has always been terrible and i cant say that i know where it came from..that would be why im in therapy! i would eat privately, hide food and get emotional and even cry if something i had wanted was eaten by someone else.
When i became a teenage starvation was my friend and the gym. My first gym membership i was 15 (i had been working out at my house since 12) and i became obsessive with feeling hungry and working out all the time. MY lowest weight ever was at 16 of 190 5ft7in:(
~Jennifer
Revision to DS 11/9/11 LapBand 12/2006
SW 321/ CW 248/ GW 185 SW 330/ HW 348/ LW 300
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165#.
Of course, my mother told me I was fat. I shouldn't weigh more than 145#. Not a bad weight if I were 2" shorter.
So I was given a lifelong "diet" mentality; I was always too fat, too tall, too "not good enough" just being myself.
I did the diet pills, the shots, fasting, you name it, then when I had my first baby I went to WW, and dieted myself from 185# up to my weight of 365# plus forty years later.
It doesn't help that my food intake was primarily white carbs, because that is the basis for the American food market.
I definitely refrained from telling either of my children anything about their weight, didn't force them to clean up their plates, and encouraged them to do a lot of outdoor activities. Fortunately, neither of them have a weight problem.
Just lucky, I guess.