This Weigh In
Changing
my life one day at a time, one meal at a time
and
sometimes one minute at a time
My
Life, My Journey
My
name is Kris, I am 35 years old and am 5'6. I was an average sized baby
weighing just under 7 pounds when I was born. I was a VERY skinny child
and it was at around the age of 7 that I started to gain weight. I would
not say that I was "fat", I was chubby. It was not until I reached the
age of 14 when I can honestly say that I started to get "fat". I
guess you can say it was all downhill from there. I struggled with my
weight mentally. What I mean by this is that I never dieted to get my
weight under control.
It
wasn't until I saw this picture taken Christmas 2001that I knew I had to do
something. I cannot believe it took me this long to realize that my weight
was out of control. I wasn't sure exactly at the time what the answer for
me would be. I knew I could not go on a diet because diet to me meant, no
more chocolate, pasta, pizza and all the other things that I loved to eat
(obviously just look at the picture).
After
much thought and research I had decided that on January 2nd, 2002 I was going to
go and check out Weight Watchers. I thought I would give it a try since it
sounded like there were no food restrictions and I did NOT have to eat cottage
cheese. I walked into that meeting that day and my life changed forever.
That
evening when I weighed in I weighed 269.2 pounds. For some reason my
weight shocked me. I am surprised that it did, how could I not have known
that I was very overweight? After all the jeans I am wearing in this
picture were a 28W!! BUT it confirmed to me that I had to give Weight
Watchers a chance and work the program 110%. This was the start of a
journey that would take me to a weight I had not seen in my adult life.
I
stayed with the program and by August I had lost 90 pounds (see picture to the
right). My weight loss slowed down around this time by the time I had
reached 9 months on the program I was down 100 pounds.
Unfortunately
life has its ups and downs and I encountered some medical problems which ended
up leading me to 4 surgeries in one year. I started to gain my weight
back.
Funny
thing though I didn't notice it creeping back on even though I was wearing
larger sized clothes again and eventually could not shop in the misses section
any longer. My clothing size started to not only include an "X"
after the number but a "W" as well. Well it did finally sink in
that I was putting weight back on and did I do something about it? Nope.
I
just continued to gain weight until I made the decision that I could not
continue. I did not want to be one of those statistics that says 95% of
the people who lose weight gain it all back plus some. So, on May 25th,
2005 I walked through those doors as I had done so many times before but this
time I was a new member again ready and willing to commit to a new lifestyle for
the rest of my life.
When
I weighed in this time my weight was back up to 239 pounds. I had gained
back close to 80 pounds back!!! After I swore that I would NEVER let my
weight start with a 2 again. Where am I now? Below in my links you
will see a page titled "Progress Page" and there I will update my
weight weekly. I will back date it to April. There are a couple of
months missing due to travel for work but I am back home now and will be
weighing in weekly.
