Tell Us Why You Should Win: Every since I was 10 I have always been overweight. I've tried many diet teas, pills, starving myself, and I've also enrolled in the Gym but the only thing that has helped me was depression but I don't want to go back that route again. For a while I accepted the fact that I'm overweight and fat because I found the one only person that accepts me for me but two years ago that all changed. After having my first child I went from a 150lbs to a 200lbs and for my height (5'00') I am fat. My family and co-workers would always tell me to try other diets to lose weight and that I'm not trying hard enough and that I will always be fat. They don't realize that everytime I hear that I would always feel depressed and I would be embaressed to even go back to work or even show my face. My confidence would go down and even though I have a great boyfriend, I feel like I'm holding him back because I barely want to go out, instead, I would stay home and only dream of being thinner.
After three years of being together, he finally proposed and on April of 2009 we will be getting married and with money being so tight, I'm afraid that we won't be able to pay for this procedure. He knows how much this procedure means to me and so he's trying so hard to make my dreams come true. I want to be able to walk down that aile holding my head up high and be able to say "I do" with a big smile on my face. I wanna start over with a new thinner body and I know that entering this contest will help both me and my soon to be husband financially. Thank You. Lerina Doronio
