Terri160

Like other overweight individuals I've struggled with my weight all my life. Before I got pregnant in 1999, I was taking metabolife and had lost so much weight. I was a size 8 when I found out I was pregnant. After giving birth in 2000 I was in a size 16. I started working out with a coworker and got down to a10. Working out was apart of my life. I maintained for years. In 2007, I found out I was pregnant with my second child. I had to go on bedrest this time. I don't remember the exact weight I was after giving birth in July 2008, but I know I was squeezing into a size 16. I went back to work 3 months later. I would workout at lunch and had a little help from the drug Adipex. By the time summer 2009 rolled around, I was a size 6 and weighed 160 pounds. I was also laid off from work, so I did nothing but workout and take care of my kids. I barely ate anything. I think I was going through some deep depression as well. I eventually got back to work in April 2010. Since I was now working in a medical facility, the drug reps would bring lunch everyday. I would eat big meals everyday for lunch. Mexican food, seafood, BBQ, and whatever else you could think of. I started gaining weight so fast, I didn't even realize it. I could zip the size 6 jeans anymore. I started pulling out the 8's, the 10's. And 2 years later I was buying 12's. I would try to workout, but my knees had gotten so bad it was very painful. So I stopped working out. The begining of this year 2014, I found myself buying 14's and 16's. My blood pressure was out of control even on medication. I was pre diabetes and cholesterol was climbing day by day. Well, that was it. I decided in March I would get a lapband. I started this journey because of the success my mother and sister had with the surgery. I lost 14 pounds on my 8 day liquid diet. I had my surgery May 7th 2014. I'm just getting started, so I hope BariatricPal will be a tool I can use to get support with what I am about to go through.