I Can't Stop Gaining Weight
I literally can't stop getting fatter.
I'm 14 and I weigh 559 lbs. Surgery to remove a life threatening brain tumor when I was 11 damaged the part of my brain that controls appetite and metabolism, leaving me with hypothalamic obesity.
I'm super hungry all the time. No matter how much I eat it never satisfies me. I'm getting uncontrollably fatter. Calorie restriction doesn't work (look it up), and is like torture to me. It takes all my willpower to limit my eating even to how much I eat now, which is about as much as what a normal 14 year old would eat.
Weight loss surgery could help, but I've researched it in detail and it basically just substitutes one set of problems for another. For me, the way I am now is preferable. My parents support my decision. My doctors think that it will slow down and stop eventually.
I've learned to accept what has happened and, oddly enough, I love my body and have embraced being an ever expanding fat girl.
I'm 14 and I weigh 559 lbs. Surgery to remove a life threatening brain tumor when I was 11 damaged the part of my brain that controls appetite and metabolism, leaving me with hypothalamic obesity.
I'm super hungry all the time. No matter how much I eat it never satisfies me. I'm getting uncontrollably fatter. Calorie restriction doesn't work (look it up), and is like torture to me. It takes all my willpower to limit my eating even to how much I eat now, which is about as much as what a normal 14 year old would eat.
Weight loss surgery could help, but I've researched it in detail and it basically just substitutes one set of problems for another. For me, the way I am now is preferable. My parents support my decision. My doctors think that it will slow down and stop eventually.
I've learned to accept what has happened and, oddly enough, I love my body and have embraced being an ever expanding fat girl.
