Natasha's Success Story

Then shortly after graduating from high school in 1994 I went off to college to study fashion design. Again, I was so sad because I was the biggest girl in the design department, and to make thing worse we had to design clothing for ourselves and present them in a fashion show. At that time I was tired with being the biggest girl in the fashion shows every year that decided to try very many diets to lose weight and I would lose 10-15 pounds, but then to gain it all back again. Shortly after graduating from college in the fall of 1998 I managed to drop 10 pounds before I married the love of my life in the summer of 1999 and on this day I got my weight down to 188.

After getting married and comfortable I ended up gaining more weight over the years. I didn't realize how fast the weight piled on until I would go shopping and noticed that I had to start wearing some plus sized clothing and I was mortified, but surely became comfortable with that soon too. The realization of how much weight was too much was 2 years after giving birth to our lovely child in November 2003. After giving birth to our little boy I joined a local playgroup so that my son could interact with other babies and again...I was the biggest mom in the playgroup. So, at that point I was up to here with my weight because as he started to get older and more active I could not keep up with him or with the other moms. At that time I was at my wits end and again I began to dabble around on many diets, and pills, but no success. I was so irritated because one night I decided to buy a scale and I got on it and it read....225 pounds!! I was so shocked because I almost weighed as much as my husband and he is 6 feet 4 inches and all muscles.