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| Me and My Sister - I'm approx. 5 years old. She teases me that I look like a soldier!! |
| Me - In my 20's.... |
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| Me, I think same age - 5 years old (Ok Ok, no cracks about the bows!!)... |
| As I look at the picture on the left, I remember feeling, fat and ugly and just plain disgusting at the picnic I had to go to...I also remember trying, unsuccessfully, to get out of going to this picnic. Now that I look at this picture so many years later, I realize how terrible I've been to myself over the years and how badly I berate myself. Sheesh, I don't think I'd let others treat me so terribly, why do I do that to myself??? I am my worst enemy!!! I'd love to look this way now!! Maybe with WLS I can! |
| Pictures of me in my younger days............. wishing and hoping to be thin again :) |
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| This is me and my niece...she's just a little dollie...Oh to be that thin again... |
| In between these "thin" years, were many years of escalating weight, however, not documented on film. I was always the "taker" of the pictures during those years (or escaping to another room)! Even though, I have to admit, pictures of me are few and far between, because even in the pictures above, I thought I looked terrible and didn't want my picture taken...I have such a distorted view now of what I look like, but either way, thin or fat, I'm never happy. I'm hoping with age and understanding and with the help of the WLS surgery, I will be able to accept my flaws and failures and finally be successful in feeling acceptance in my own skin....WLS is my only chance to get my life back. I am SO ready!! |
| THE THIN YEARS, BEFORE FOOD BECAME AN ISSUE.... |
| THEN CAME THE STRUGGLE.......... |
| Starting in late grade school, I had a weight problem. Started out with a 10 to 15 lb problem, escalating into a severe weight problem into my 30's...After years of dieting, pills, fasting, starvation, staples in the ear, Weight Watchers, Overeaters Annonymous, etc. etc. etc. here I am on the verge of Weight Loss Surgery. It is my only hope...I cannot struggle alone with the weight any longer..I cannot keep it off for a prolonged period of time without some intervention...December 2001 is my salvation..WLS here I come!!! Don't fail me now....I hope I'm another success story for WLS....I know I deserve to be happy and successful with a maintainable weight..... |