lauramae

My life has been a journey of diets and food. I have been overweight since childhood, getting larger as time went on. My struggle with food is something that I know surgery will not fix. As I've gotten older I recognized that my size has stopped me from living the life that I really wanted. I've 52 now and while I have a good life and loved ones around me. My career is not what I wanted and I've never married.
I love to travel and not being able to walk very well and needing to pay for 2 seats has always held me back some.
Recently I have begun to have problems with my lower legs, stasis and cellulitis. I realized that it was time to start living or start dying.
I've always loved the theater and music. I was very involved in both during high school and college. I'm outgoing, always ready to talk with someone about something (got that from my father)
Whenever I find myself in a situation where I don't fit meaning...in chairs or at the doctors office even, I speak-up. So many super morbidly obese people stop going out because they don't fit anywhere and can find a place to sit. I'll continue to speak-up for those and are too embarrassed to say anything thinking they don't deserve a seat.
I'm excited and frightened at the same time.