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Columbia
Member Since March 2009
My Story
i am 21 years old,i live in a small town of columbia kentucky. its not much but its home. half of my life i have been over weight and struggling to lose weight. the hurtful name calling and fun making has really took a tole on me, in grade school i was what you would call the fat kid!! but i didnt think low of my self as other thought about me. i would go on and think nothing about it cause if i let my self think bad about my self it would do nothing for me only make me insecure about my looks. i tried for years to lose weight, praying everyday hopeing that jesus would hear me. i always wanted to look like those models on t.v., then i thought to my self what are you thinking? you should be glad with the body jesus gave you. well i wasnt i was unhappy and also depressed, being over weight wasnt the only thing that bothered me, it was the way that my friends and family treated me i felt like a odd ball and out of place. but the more i thought about it the worse it made me feel. about 3 years ago i came down with an illness and i didnt know what was going on with me and which it scared me deeply cause i thought i was going to die! actually thats how i felt. i kept losing weight day by day i went from 295 pound to 152 in 4 months, i was to the point where i had lost the weight so fast that i was not able to do anything.For a young girl like me it was hard to look at my self in the mirror cause it didnt look like me, it looked like a different person but not in a good way. this went on for another year and i was beginning to get sicker and sicker. i kept going back and forward to the doctor and they could not tell me anything. well i went to one special doctor and she told me that i had diabetes. well i started crying and didnt know what to think or what to do with my self and the first thing that had popped into my head is people that has diabetes usually die from it.. well i was tore all to pieces not knowing what to do. as the days went by i learned to cope with it. months and months went by and i was at the point were i was getting better learnig how to eat and to exerise and trying to take care of my self, because no matter what the doctors say or what medicine they put me on i was the one that had to make the change. it was hard for a 17 hear old girl to give up her favorite food.the candy and the greesey foods looked so good when other people was eating them! but i just could not let my self do it, i had to be strong. today i stand at 21 years old healthy as a horse! yes i still have diabeted but i am healthier than i was 3 years ago, my diabetes has been controlled and i practically eat what i want. i still want those candy bars but i have learned self control and i am doing pretty good at it.
life has been so good to me in these last couple of years,getting over my illness and also attending somerset community college, planning on graduating next summer with my nursing degree,which i am super excited about knowing that i finally achieved something in my life.
I had been seeing these signs all over town about curves and everytime i turn on the t.v. it would pop on. well i thought that has to be a sign for me to join. so i went and signed up and to tell you the truth its the best place that i have every been. not only have they helped me with my weight and learning to tone my body up they make me feel so comfortable and make me feel at home. by eating right and exercising daily has made me a new person or at least made me feel like one. i know that there is hope and all i had to do is pray for it and god gave me the strength.
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