Friday, October 26, 2012

Creeping Obesity


It is day 23 of BlogFest 2012!   Stuart of 4 a Better Life is our host for today’s writing prompt!







     When I was growing up I was always thin.  Even in my 20’s and early 30’s I was pretty thin.  I met the man of my dreams.  He is  my best friend and the best thing that has happened to my life before or since.  I was enjoying life.  When we first married I had three surgeries in close succession.  I said goodbye to my gallbladder, my tonsils, and then had endometriosis removed.  I also managed to sustain a concussion.  It was an eventful first year to say the least.





       As I began to feel better and I reveled in true happiness I began to gain weight.  It wasn’t so bad at first as I was too skinny from not feeling well for so long.  The weight seemed to creep on without me really noticing it.  Then I got pregnant.  Since a person is supposed to gain weight while pregnant, I paid little mind to it.  I was feeding my baby.  The only problem was once I had my baby, I still looked huge.  It was not supposed to happen that way at all.  I lost some weight, but have never seen my pre-pregnancy weight again.  All of sudden I was over weight with cow udders for b00bs and a pointed bubble butt a$$.  I woke up and discovered I was fat and had no clue what the hell to do about it.  I had never had the problem before.  I had always been too skinny, and then all of a sudden I was enormous.  Granted I still could find people on the street bigger than me but that was little consolation.



       At the time my Dad had his stroke he liked to call me Crisco.  I get the reference.  He considered me a lard a$$ and even though I know he was teasing me, the reference hurt.  While he was in the hospital I was under so much stress keeping on top of taking care of my daughter, husband, and him that I paid little never mind to me.  One day I went to see my dad in the hospital and showed him how without a belt my pants literally fell off my a$$.  He smiled his lopsided grin and told me Crisco had left the building and to pull up my pants.  I did just that.

       After my Dad died, the weight silently crept back on.  A year later, I was pregnant with my son and trying desperately not to gain any more weight than I absolutely had to.  The result was that after I had my son, it actually looked like I had given birth which was a good thing.  Seven years have passed and since then the pounds have crept back on.  One day I had a medical emergency and went to the emergency room where it was discovered I was suffering from severe hypertension.

       I followed up with my doctor and was prescribed blood pressure medication and put on a strict diet.  It was a wake up call and I have followed the diet religiously since.  The weight loss has been slow going but sure.  As of today I am down 28 pounds and wonders of wonders, for the first time in over 12 years I can look down and actually see my toes!!!  Hello toes!  It has been a long time!  I am so glad to see you!  I will continue to follow my diet hell come high water, and hopefully I will convince this thing called obesity to creep away.  I was hoping that if I didn’t eat as much while pregnant the baby would eat up my a$$ and I would be amazingly thin when all was said and done.  Things just didn’t work out that way.  That’s life until next time when I give you another glimpse into the life of a trucker’s wife.


16 comments:

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    1. Darlene, I am beaming from ear to ear!! Thank you for stopping by to read and for your comments. You made my day!! ♥

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  2. Kudos for sticking to that diet!!! Great job!!! :D :D :D I finally made an appt w/ my new doctor for 11/14 and I am literally dreading the 'you need to lose weight' lecture I will, no doubt, get. I always resist being weighed at the doctor's office but they'll force me into it with this first appt. Ugh.

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    1. JoJo, good luck on your doctor's appointment. I hate those lectures!! They always weigh a person and their scale weighs you at 10-15 pounds more than at home! Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments! ♥

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  3. Wow Kathy! That's great. 28 pounds already. So proud of you girl.

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    1. Jo, thank you!! I have been following that diet religiously and so far so good. Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments! ♥

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    1. Susan, Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments! ♥

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  5. Good for you! I know exactly what you mean by creeping obesity. I put on a little weight with my first child and a little more with my second, and a little more with my first desk job. Then I had severe plantar fasciitis and couldn't walk. Then I had bad knees and couldn't walk. But I didn't realize I was gaining weight. I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and almost didn't recognize the person looking back at me. Then I retired and lost 15 pounds just from cutting the stress. Now I have severe sciatica and can walk only short distances--lucky to do that, but I've kept off the 15 pounds. I'd give anything to weigh now what I weighed when I had my kids--literally. To get down to what I weighed when I was 8 months pregnant, I'd have to lose more than 50 pounds. I haven't given up because I have a wide stubborn streak and persistence is my middle name (well, actually it's Hope, but they're similar in a way ( - : ). Anyway, I'm very proud of you. Keep up the good work!

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    1. Angela, Thanks for stopping by to read and for your kind comments and encouragement!! ♥

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  6. Wow! What a stressful first year of marriage!

    I know what you mean about the weight creeping on. I've lost and gained a couple of people in my lifetime. My weight is currently down, but I worry because I have a tendency to gain weight back. I've been watching my carbs and hopefully as long as I don't go back to massive amounts of bread and sugar, I should be able to maintain. Congrats on your weight loss. Keep it up.

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    1. Joyce, it surely was and it is a testament to my husband that he stuck by me through it all. Weight loss is tough to do. Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments! ♥

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  7. Awesome progress!! Keep it up for sure!!

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    1. Jenn, slow but sure. It is coming off little by little. Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments! ♥

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  8. Great job Kathy. You go girl. You are so right. Weight loss is a tough thing to do but you are tougher than that.

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    1. Suzy, thank you. It is slow and sure. So far I have held steady at 28 pounds weight loss for a while. Wish I would lose more. Thank you for stopping by to read and for your kind comments!

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