***How did You become fat?personal and deep story

Hi everyone. Thank you all for your testimonials. I, too, was always big. When I was 4 years old, I weighed 95 pounds and would drag a gallon milk carton around for a cup (what were my parents thinking). My size and the death of my father and two brothers by the time I was 12 led me to thinking about suicide. I know a lot of people have contemplated suicide, but I actually tried it. I spent two nights lying across a major highway a block from my house, but by God's grace no traffic would come by. On the third day, after obtaining a bottle of prescription sleeping pills for my next attempt, a friend came by to see me out of the blue. His few kind words saved me from myself (this friend, who after 20 years is still my best friend, I owe my life to many times). Though I had lost the will to kill myself, my weight spiraled out of control. In middle school, I became anorexic and became dangerously thin. I was in and out of hospitals and shrink's offices for more than a year. I became hooked on prescription narcotics for my condition, which only made me more of an outcast. Church saved me from my addiction and my anorexia, but the weight gain eventually started again. Having few friends and no girlfriends led to more depression which led to more eating. Then four years ago I developed a thyroid problem. My weight jumped 180 pounds in that time. Now my weight was threatening my life once again. At 432 pounds, multiple doctors warned me that if drastic measures weren't taken, I would not live to see my 35th birthday (that's only 2.5 years away). After failing miserably on every diet out there, surgery seemed to be my only out. I had the DS performed by Dr. Kim at Celebration on July 6 and am glad to report that I am down 80 pounds and my comorbities are subsiding. Hopefully I can get under 200 pounds for the first time since high school and maybe even find that love that has eluded me my whole life (even though that was not the reason for the surgery). Please keep me in prayer.

hey everyone, i figured i would participate in this one! well, i was small when i was born and a "normal" size until age 6. my mom married a man who had no kids (he was still the sweetest man ever) and so when he made dinner, i would get about the same serving as they did. my mom always said that was too much, but being that i was not used to having a "dad" around, i wanted to please him in every way...i would finish the food even if my eyes were bulging...when i moved to florida from oregon, i was 12 and i weighed like 175. i was mildy depressed b/c i had to leave all my friends, but soon got over that when school started...i was never picked on in school (at least not to my face). i was friends with everyone, very popular throughout junior high and highschool. i am the type of person that will get u to like me before u get to pass judgement on me b/c of my size.....no one could say i was fat b/c i was lazy even weighing at 275, i played volleyball and flag football... my senior year i was on prom court and i LOVED it....all my friends were small and it is sad to say, but i felt uncomfortable around big people...i don't know why....i had seen commercials about wls, but it never really became a thought b/c even though i was big, i was still active and i got the same amount of phone numbers as my skinny friends did when i we went out. so i never did this for cosmetic purposes...besides being overweight, i was perfectly healthy...my senior year, i had to do the medical history of my family tree...well my mom's side was just crazy in the head (not too much we can do about that) and my dads side had history of high blood pressure, hypertension, diabetes, sleep apnea and so forth. well i wanted to be healthy and knew the weight had to come off...i started researching in march, had initial consult. in april, was approved in may and had my surgery june 16, 2004. i am now down 86 lbs and down from a 26/28 to a 18/20. i am very happy that i had this surgery so that i can live a long and healthy life.