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Best Success Story You've Seen?
| Tue, 09-21-2004 - 4:38pm |
QOTW 9-21-04
What's the best success story you've ever seen or read about?
| Tue, 09-21-2004 - 4:38pm |
QOTW 9-21-04
What's the best success story you've ever seen or read about?
By the time we graduated, her and I were neck and neck as far as weight was concerned. She was like 270 at 5'2", I think I was 260...265...there abouts at 6'0". I moved to Omaha, and she stayed in the tiny town we're from in WY. Her mood became progressively dark and she started taking drugs, drinking a lot, and finally started fooling around with the suicide idea. Her weight was nearly 400lbs. On August 5th, 2002 (my b-day) I got a call from her mom. Christy had gone on a binge drinking spree and had popped countless yellow-jackets and took off in her mom's car. They found her 2 days later in the middle of a pasture, tangled in some barbed wire and nearly dead.
When Christy woke up, I was there. We talked. She cried and told me everything that her "friends" had done to her (using her body to buy drugs...for instance). We cried for hours and I stayed with her until she was released 4 days later. She could have died, and she knew that. A higher power had spared her for a reason, and she wasn't going to mess it up again.
She went to rehab, started attending 12 step programs (including OA - Overeaters Anonymous) and started eating right. She is now at 215 last time I talked to her. She still has some weight to lose but she dropped 180 lbs in a little over 2 years and is still losing. She feels great, she has a steady job and a new, great, supportive, wonderful b/f. Christy is my inspiration. She has been through so much I don't even want to imagine, yet she is successful and brilliant and just as beautiful as always.
Here's to you Christy,
Critter
That is awesome!
http://www.wwdiva.com/cng091877.html
Thanks for posting that website. I've seen alot of success stories but none like hers. She has really come a long way, and with such emotional baggage!!
The before and after pics....WOW!
I needed some inspiration and that definately gave me the umph I needed to get going again!
Thanks!!
Jessica
Success stories keep me motivated.
Fear