Once Upon a Time-An Intro of Sorts

[Makulafamy 55]

My mom had a book. Every once in awhile I would sit on the carpet in our family room, and when no one was watching, I would pull it out and flip to my favorite page. I don’t remember what verbage my 8 year old mind used, but I remember thinking several things.

Wow those people are fat. At least I’m not that fat. I will never be that fat. And *giggle* those people are naked.

The book was written by one Richard Simmons, and it was called Never Say Diet. I couldn’t figure out why you weren’t supposed to say diet. I said it all the time. My mom had said it. People on people said it. So I asked my mom one day to explain it to me. And she said that "diet" was bad because you weren’t supposed to go on DIETS, you were supposed to change your way of life.

Back to the naked people.

Somewhere in the book their was a sketch of a man and a woman. They were naked, obese, and giving us a side profile shot. I remember their bellies hanging over…lapping over. I remember their fat roles. I remember the ladies breasts were sagging. I remember being horrified and fascinated. Unfortunately, when I look at myself in the mirror today…I have become that sketch.

I wasn’t fat when I was little. I sure thought I was. The first memory I have of feeling fat probably happened when I was about 5. I used to lay in our living room, in front of the bay windows, and lather up in lotion (just regular moisturizer), and try to get a tan. I had a cute little bikini. As I was walking around, my brother and his friend were on the couch and he said something about me having a dimply butt. I didn’t know what he meant. My mom explained it to me. He was implying I had cellulite. I didn’t, but that was all it took. From then on, I believed I was fatter than all my friends. I look at pictures now and I was just an average size girl.

It wasn’t until I started junior high that I was noticeable bigger than pretty much all my girlfriends. I danced. I love to dance, and I was on our dance team. I was a size 14/16 and they had to have my skirt specially made but putting two skirts together.

I’ve always said there are two types of fat girls: the wallflowers who just want to blend in, and the loud funny ones who spend their lives trying to make people forget how fat they are. I am the second of the two.

I was funny, (still like to think I am). I was popular, friends with everyone. On the outside, to the outside world…my weight didn’t bother me. In high school the boyfriends stopped. I still danced, still had tons of friends. And to be honest, I never let my weight prevent me from doing what I wanted. In high school the dance outfits changed. We had to wear one piece black leotards, cinched at the waste with the belt (even the size 4 girls didn’t look to flattering). We also had a spandex top and skirt. For some reason, the senior boys (not all of them, but a good handful), loved to pick on me. They would call me "two lunches"…implying I ate two lunches.

One basketball game, we took the court. We were dancing to a James Brown song and our starting position was crouched on the floor, heads down. The music was taking forever to start…and guess where I was in the formation. Yes, it couldn’t be better if it was an after school special on ABC. I was crouched. They started chanting. "Two lunches, Two lunches"…everyone could hear. The music started. I danced. We walked off the court. I hid. I quite dancing. And that is one of my biggest regrets. I gave power to those boys…and let them take that away from me. I started cheerleading the next year. Didn’t keep me down for long. But still affects me 12 years later.

I’ll skip college and make a long story…well still pretty long….I graduated from college. Moved to Florida. Met the love of my life. He is 42 and weighs 150 pounds. Never had a weight problem, and has never had a problem with my weight. I can talk more about that on my blog.

This is just my intro. My history.

I’ve always joked I have reverse body dysmorphic disorder. That instead of being a tiny person that sees themselves as fat, I am a fat person who always thinks they are a lot skinnier. I feel pretty hot until I see a picture. I still think I was pretty hot weight 220 and being a size 20. I weigh 327 now. And don’t feel that hot anymore.

I knew I needed help. I am hoping that on January 27th, help will come in the form of a little intertube around my stomach. I look forward to chatting with you all!

My blog is

cheese & Sunkist

I just started it today. There is nothing there yet that isn't here...but I promise there will be...with lots of pics too!

[mountainmomma 0]

Welcome Home!

I am a native Floridian, Love it and miss it, unfortuantly no jobs down there.

Anyway I know what you mean. I started getting bigger when I was 8. I was never involved with anything at school cause I was ADD and this was before they knew what it was, I struggled just to graduate with my class. However I was not huge but a 14/16 most of the time, even when I started working and going out to party and dance all the time, I realize now that the dancing was keeping me from getting bigger. Then I met My now Husband and stopped going out and dancing and the weight just poured on me.

I did the diet thing and lost some. But then the babies came and ugh you get the picture.

My older brother always called my Chunky. I hated it!

My dad used to put me on diets when I was too young to understand and I hated that, felt like I was being tortured.

I also felt like my family did not like me. Mom was always telling me I needed to loose weight.Guess I shoulda told her to stop cooking! ha! I too just found this site a few days ago and it has been very enlightening for me. I like it cause it is a support system and no one is critisizing anyone. Good luck! Gina

[crzytchr 3]

Welcome to lapbandtalk. This is the place to come to get support during your lapband journey. I have found it to be a valuable resource during the last 6 months.

Good luck with the rest of your preop diet during the last few days. :thumbup: