My Personal Diet Story

It is not everyday that friend’s will sit back and open up and share their secrets that they have kept to themselves for so long. Bobbie has helped me on various occassions, she is a wonderful friend and is someone who I believe is a very special person. When I saw her comments on My Personal Diet Story I knew some of her past but I didn’t realise that she too carried with her a secret about her younger days and how being larger than others her age affected her for so long.

It saddens me that many people in the world never accept people for who they are but instead will put them down because they are overweight. Some of the most caring and wonderful people in this world are overweight, some people have medical issues that make people want to put them down without knowing the full extent of those issues. Many people go out of their way to be hurtful.

Once again, you will read stories like mine and now like Bobbies on My Personal Diet Story blog, we are not after sympathy, we don’t want people to feel sorry for us, we want to share our stories and how it is not so easy for everyone. At the same time, on this blog you will read stories from people who have been able to change, they have been able to lose their weight or gain it successfully… Remember we are all individuals… and we are all very different people.

Take a moment and read Bobbie’s Diet Story…

I believe that genetics play a large role when it comes to me and my battle with weight. I was born into a large family. Most everyone in my family has weight issues. Some have successfully lost weight and battle daily to keep it off, others have had stomach stapling, bariatric surgery that has destroyed their bodies and others have tried almost every fad diet there is out there to only gain their weight back.. and then some.

Even though I was very active, not eating my more than a child my own age, I was chubby through my entire childhood. I was the blunt of many jokes from the children at school and aside from peer pressure, doctor visits always brought with them more stresses upon my already stressed out state. Our family doctor always looked down his nose at me, as though I was a glutton, pigging out on candy and junk foods, when in fact, those things were not permitted in our house.

So, at the age of 9 and tagged as *obese* at a weight of 85 lbs, with the doctors orders of 1 hard boiled egg and 1/2 a grapefruit 3 times a day, my diet dilemmas began.

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