College/Mike

     Sorry, for the two day delay, but life stepped in.  I wanted to talk to you about meeting my husband and share with you a little from our college years.  I was a Senior when Mike and I started dating.  He was only the third person I officially ever dated.  I tipped the scales at 220lbs.  Mike and I first met 3 years earlier during a 4-H trip and found each other again in 1995 when both of us were going through training for to be camp counselors.  What an experience that was being a chubby girl.  I remember one of the trust drills we did ended in an injury.  The extension agent was having each counselor close their eyes and fall into the arms of the others.  That part was fine, but then he was having the entire group hold us up off the ground.  I tried to convince him I was way too big for them to hold me.  Didn't work, he made me do it anyway.  They tried to pick me up and dropped me to the floor.  My head hit the ground and everything went blurry.  When I came to, I had a friend holding a bag of ice to my head.  I got to tell the extension agent I told you so.  Yes, Mike was there, but he states he doesn't remember the event, maybe he is being nice.
     Not that I wasn't happy before meeting Mike, but I wasn't as anxious about my size or weight with him.  Mike loved me the way I was.  People ask me all the time what he thinks about my dramatic weight loss and he says he loved me before and he loves me now.  He just wants me happy and healthy.  I remember us in college parties and I always found myself looking around to see if I was the biggest person and usually I was.  I remember not going to a few parties, such as the Halloween parties, because I couldn't find a costume that would fit.  You better believe this year we are going downtown to party.  Any ideas for a costume??  The four years in college I gained 45lbs at graduation I weighted 265lbs.  I didn't enjoy sitting in the class rooms that had the one piece chair & desk combos.  I didn't fit in them.  I had the same problem in the old auditorium seats with the table that flipped out.  When I was at campus forget about walking to class.  I made sure I got to campus early enough to use the campus bus system to haul me around.  The couple of times I did walk around campus I thought I was going to die.  I also was worried about crowded buses.    While I was in college, Mike purposed in 1998.  As I stated above with Mike, I wasn't worried about my weight.  At least not until I just kept getting bigger, became borderline diabetic and was having infertility problems a year after we were married.  The doctors related my infertility to me being overweight.  Can you guess what I am going to talk about in tomorrows blog???
Thank for reading letting me know what you think.
Lea  

Mike and I Spring 2000

Mike and I Summer 2010