from a dear friend of mine who has been through much of what I have been through in the past few months...
"Well it has taken me sometime to be open about a decision that I have made not just for my wonderful husband,
who has been my rock and my shelter but for my children who make me
wanna be better every day. I have received a lot of private messages asking
me how have I lost my weight? And this has been a very private matter
between my family & close friends , but as I sit here watching "My
600lb Life" I can't help but see myself on this show. No I never reached
that big in weight but close enough to where I was in Congestive Heart
Failure , and I see myself in everyone one of these people who are
fighting to get their life back.. I have struggled with My weight my
entire life, yo yo diets, and trying to hide away a lot of pain, and as I
got older my emotional pain got worse. So what does almost every heavy
set woman do, she hides it and hides it well, usually behind a great
smile and BIG personality. Trying to be the life of the party and the
most outspoken, just to hide the physical & mental abuse, not just
from family ,but so called friends and even strangers. So in some ways
I've become a master manipulator of my own self.. And not until I
started this journey of finding myself my true self , did I realize
that. So, I had some tough decisions to make , well at least at the time
I thought they were tough decisions, and now that I've made the
decision to FORGIVE, I look back and tell myself it wasn't as hard as I
thought it would be. It was one of the best gifts I could give myself to
FORGIVE those who have done me wrong but also to FORGIVE myself for
whom I've done wrong. So my next decision was to have the Gastric Bypass
surgery and that is the 2nd best decision I've made for myself.. There
is no looking back, it is onward and upward for me and my family. I have
had some of my, who I thought were my friends, that I shared this with
leave me some pretty hurtful messages, telling me it was a coward way
out to face my demons head on..Well my decision was not made for anyone
else other than myself and my family .. I am sharing my story because I
want to be honest with you all when you ask me how did I do it, I'm not
ashamed. I just had to come to terms before telling everyone something
so personal. So please understand why I hesitated.. Thank you and I love
you all."
~ Kimberly Holley
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