Posted by: princessm on
Well, my AH-HA moment came in 2007. But let me tell you the history. I weighed 112 lbs from the time I was 11 years old until a month befor my 22nd birthday. My whole life I had been extremely tiny. 2 months before my birthday I hurt myself at work. instead of getting better I was getting worse. It all came to a climax August 3, 2005 when the doctor told my mom I would be lucky to live the next 12 hours. I was transfered to cleveland clinic and diagnosed with auto-immune hemolytic anemia and Systemic lupus. In order to save my life I was put on high levels of steroids. in late 2007, I was finally taken off of the steroids. I started losing my puffiness, But it didn't all go away. I realized how badly I had been eating for the past 2 years do the the steroids making me constantly hungry. I would stop at a fast food joint for a meal on my way to dinner. I weighed 155 at the end of it. I saw a picture of myself on the beach and was shocked. I new I had gained weight, but I had gone from modeling bikinis, to being ashamed to wear a swimsuit. I new I had to change. Then I got married in sept. 2008 in june 2009 my hubby and I went to a consult for a high risk OB because my codtors said we could start trying to get pregnant in the fall. He told me I need to lose weight or else I will not survive a pregnancy no question. So I guess I really had a couple ah-ha moments. but it is hard for me. I never had to wory about my weight growing up. I ate what I wanted, did what I wanted, never worried about exercise. Now I work out an hour to 2 a day, never eat over 1500 cals and can not lose weight nomatter what.
