Were you overweight your whole life?

My skepticism is getting the better of me.  I have been overweight since I was about 8 years old.  The least I ever remember weighing was 160 (for about a week!) in high school.

How many people fought obesity their whole lives before they had WLS, specifically RNY? 

How far out are you?  Are you fighting regaining?

Thank you for your patience with me, and your support.  It's so hard to believe I can lose this weight and keep it off.  It would be something I've never, ever done before.

nancy s.
the skeptic

Nancy
I was never obese until my I started having kids in 2004...So, I remember what it felt like to be 135 lbs. and I'm going there again come hell or high water!!!  LOL

I was always the fat kid. My earliest memory of it all was when I was in the 5th grade and a teacher asked me did my mom pour me in my shorts that morning. I guess before that I hadn't really thought about it. But that stuck in my head and to this day if I wear something tight or fitting I think of what she said and how she said it. I can still literally hear her voice. That was 24 yrs ago. She really scared me I guess. The least I ever weighed was about 180 and I was out of high school and working at a job where I was on my feet all day and moving. I am 6' tall so I was wearing like 14s but never do I remember being littler that that. I am 6 months out and havent gained any weight back that I am losing. I worry about that. But so far it is like once that pound is gone it is gone for good. 


Melissa

I have been overweight since my child was born 20 years ago - creeped on a few pounds a year, then 2001 I was diagnosed with diabetes, and it really packed on.

When I was little my parents took me to pediatric specialists to see whey I would not gain weight, and in college (at graduation in 1980) I weighed in at the mere 90 pounds - but I am really comfortable at 115-120 and that's where I am aiming.  My highest weight was 250 and this morning I was at 175, down from 241 5 months ago on surgery morning.

I am so please and excited about this surgery and the results so far

hi- i was always thin until i got preggo in 1989. i lost the weight after a couple of years but then got preggo again and never lost the weight. i finally lost the way back in 2000. After i was married in 2003 i gained it alllllll back and then some.
so i have been overweight the majority of my adult life.

Hi Nancy,

Go read my profile ... you sound just like me! ;-) Like you, I started gaining weight when I was about 8 yrs old and for a few months when I was a teen I slimmed down .... but, of course, it didn't last. I was somewhere between chunky and overweight all through school. The six months before I got married were really stressful and I ate everything that wasn't nailed down and I went from wearing a siz 14/16 to a size 22. My wedding dress was a 22 ... I was devasted. I went up and down all of my adult life, but never really held a weight below 200 for more than a few months. Most of the time I was somewhere in the 220's to 240's reaching as high as the mid 260s at one point. Like you, I also wasn't too sure that #1 I could get it all off and #2 that I'd be able to keep it off. As you know I've gotten all of the excess weight off and I'm about 17 months post op and I'm not having any trouble maintaining the loss ... as a matter of a fact, I'm having to work at keeping weight from dropping. I never, in a million years, would have thought that I'd be in this position.

I wish this and more for you.

Barb

I have been a big girl all my life.  You can pick me our in my kindergarten picture as the tall, chubby kid in the back row.  I also remember not wanting to play on the see-saw with other children in kindergarten because I was so much bigger than they were.  The smallest I remember being is when I went on the Rice Diet in Durham back in the early 80s.  I was still in college but took a semester off to do the diet.  I think I got to about 175 lbs.  I looked good, since I'm quite tall.  But alas, I went back to my old lifestyle and little by little all the weight and more came back.  I am now PRE-op and don't have a date yet.  My Dr. and psych evaluator (Diet Nazi) wants me to make the necessary lifestyle changes and lose some weight now.  I have made many changes, cut back on portions, haven't had pizza or ice cream in over a month, cut out carbonated drinks, candy, drinking during meals, etc.  I'm even doing physical therapy to get strong for exercise.  I keep a food diary, weight diary, and exercise diary.  After at least one whole month I think I've lost only 8 lbs.  **sigh**

I was never even overweight until I got married and crept into my 30's... I was always slim and trim and stayed in good shape while in the Marines. Then hubby started cooking HUGE meals and I started overeating EVERYTHING without even thinking about it and I crept up to the 200s..... hopefully the weight will stay off after all this!!!!

Yup.  I was never less than 175 in high school, that I remember.  It went up, up, up from there, particularly after I had children.

I am a year and a half out and am not fighting regain, just trying to get 10-15 more pounds off prior to plastics.  This does work and it will work for you, if you follow your surgeon's guidelines.

Take care.
Ellen

I was always fat. The biggest wherever I went. But I never let it hold me down, Th teasing hurt but I kept a stiff upper lip. Back when I was in high school... Bell bottoms were in but they did not come in large sizes so I made my own. I was an artist (paint and draw ) so designing and sewing my own clothes was easy for me. I lost 94lbs from the end of my senior year of high school till the begining of college....155 was my lowest adult weight. I was on the atkins diet. Kept it down for about 4 years than Up...up...up... down here and there and up some more. My highest weight was 334lbs...I have lost 100lbs since wls and am at 204.  It was 202  this morning but I am not ready to count it yet. For me Atkins and weigh****chers were the only 2 diets which almost worked. But wls has changed my life.
going from size 32-34 to 18-20's aint half bad. I am sure I will loose more I just don't know how far down I can get...150lbs would be great. Sorry about the long post. Guess I'm a little wordy tonight.
Myrtis