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Hi my name is Amber!
Here is a little of my story... I have never been known as overweight ... in junior high and high school I was always around 140 pounds and I am 5'9 ... but around 2 1/2 years ago I was in a car accident on a way back from a highschool football game I was cheering at and I am completely grateful for being alive. I was in a coma for over 5 months and I didn't know that when I woke up I would barely recognize myself. I gained over 40 pounds in those 5 months from not being able to excercise and from what they would feed me through the tube. When I woke up I gained even more weight just from being depressed and feeling like I haven't had anything to eat in years. Going through physical therapy got depressing, surgeries were equally depressing. I felt helpless and that made me hit the weight that I am now 232... I did lose some weight because originally I was 255 but I want/ need to lose more. I want to be the person that I saw everyday in the mirror. God... I think brought this upon me so that I can understand what it means to be self disciplined and that is exactly what I am doing... I am taking a stand.
I am finally able to work out again without being in pain and some of my family who weren't even overweight did Atkins and lost a good bit of weight so I am ready to give it a try and am now on Day 6 of Induction. I want my self- esteem back because right now I have none.
Thanks for listening to me... I cry everytime I talk, write or think about that day, thats how bad it gets.
-Amber
Here is a little of my story... I have never been known as overweight ... in junior high and high school I was always around 140 pounds and I am 5'9 ... but around 2 1/2 years ago I was in a car accident on a way back from a highschool football game I was cheering at and I am completely grateful for being alive. I was in a coma for over 5 months and I didn't know that when I woke up I would barely recognize myself. I gained over 40 pounds in those 5 months from not being able to excercise and from what they would feed me through the tube. When I woke up I gained even more weight just from being depressed and feeling like I haven't had anything to eat in years. Going through physical therapy got depressing, surgeries were equally depressing. I felt helpless and that made me hit the weight that I am now 232... I did lose some weight because originally I was 255 but I want/ need to lose more. I want to be the person that I saw everyday in the mirror. God... I think brought this upon me so that I can understand what it means to be self disciplined and that is exactly what I am doing... I am taking a stand.
I am finally able to work out again without being in pain and some of my family who weren't even overweight did Atkins and lost a good bit of weight so I am ready to give it a try and am now on Day 6 of Induction. I want my self- esteem back because right now I have none.
Thanks for listening to me... I cry everytime I talk, write or think about that day, thats how bad it gets.
-Amber
Andrea
Amber!
/GW225!!!
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