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Julie
- walkinlady -
Julie has now lost 155 pounds!!!
She is a very important part of G2G, a dear friend and an inspiration to us all!
Read more about her journey below.
Hi, my name is Julie and I have a very wonderful life. I have a very
loving husband, 3 very wanted children and a house to call our home. I met
my husband at a very young age and was married with my first child when I had
just turned 20. I was in heaven but that is when my life was taking its turn
on me, I gained 100 pounds with my first child which put me at a weight of
276, I being so young thought the weight would just come off after having the
baby, boy was I wrong...my weight just seemed to be creeping up on me, well
of course it was I didn’t do anything to change my eating habits, the more I
think about it now it was like I was numb to the fact that I was so fat.
Well, in this time I got pregnant again only to have a miscarriage, that
really depressed me so I ate my depression away. I wanted another child
really bad so my husband and I were trying very hard, we both came from big
families and felt our son needed a sibling, I did get pregnant again but to
my despair had another miscarriage, this really made me miserable, all as I
ever wanted was to have a big family, it was my dream. In this time my weight
sky rocketed up to 335 pounds I’ll never forget how I felt hearing that
number when the weight watcher leader weighed me.
I was still trying to get pregnant even at such a high weight, all my friends
around me were having babies, I went to lots of baby showers but never my
own. Well, my periods were turning on me I was not having any so I went to
seek help and finally dragged my butt to the Doctor’s, only to come across
Dr. MEAN, his words....
Well, of course your not having periods you’re just way to fat, what do you
expect, I’m surprised you go out in public and your poor husband who has to
make love to you, wouldn’t you feel better if you were thinner?
I was
devastated, I was in tears, I didn’t even fight back I was so mortified. So I
went home crying with pills to make my period start, oh and it did, but now
it wouldn’t stop and when it did it wouldn’t start for a couple of months it
became a cycle, until one day it just didn’t stop I bled heavy for 2 full
months and would not go to the Doctor’s because I was so afraid of ridicule,
until my dear supportive husband dragged me there and that is when I found
my Doctor nice, he was great, he even diagnosed me with Polycystic Ovary
Syndrome and never made me feel like a freak.
I started working on me and I was going to lose this weight once and for
all so I did my WW plan real good lost 80 pounds and got pregnant, I had my
son Erik (the light of my life) he was sooooo wanted, 8 long years of many
tears he was finally here.
Unfortunately my bad eating habits started up again and I gained all the
weight back. So decided it was time to really do it this time do it for good.
Well, I did really well, I lost 60 pounds and guess what, Yep, I got pregnant
again and had my little girl, my Sara which means...little princess, she was
a long awaited for, I had my daughter. Now Patrick my first born had a
brother and a sister, that was so important to me I felt so very complete.
After I had Sara I continued to lose the weight, I lost a 110 pounds and then
I don’t know how or why but got back into bad eating habits and nearly gained
it all back.
May 1, 2000 brought new light to me, I felt the urge to take off this weight
again, I started doing a old Weight Watcher diet I had kept called the Fat
and Fiber plan, incorporated exercise into my life and just been going really
strong since then. I have lost 124 pounds.
I think I worked on healing my inner self and that is what makes it so different on this path this time. I feel support is very important because before I found Getting2Goal, I found myself having more slips, this site has been a very important tool for me,
Kim I hope you know how much you helped in changing my life and I thank you
from the bottom of my heart. I know now that I will make it on this journey
I started so many years ago, I know I will be at my goal one day I feel it in
my heart. I imagine my future Healthy, yes I want to be thin and sexy and
wear whatever I please but more importantly I want to live a healthy life,
not only in body but in mind and in soul.
~Julie/Walkinlady
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