Weight gain. How did I get fat?

Weight gain...the history! How did I get fat?

 I was a skinny child, the sort parents and doctors worried about. I grew up thin, I did things like kayaking and hill walking. I got married and we honeymooned on Skye in Scotland, and climbed mountains.

 I had a baby, and put on a bit of weight. I had another baby and put on a little more weight. Not much, just a few pounds, however it bothered me. So I joined a slimming club.....

20 years and another baby later I was about 16 and a half stone, 105 kg, about 230 pounds or so. I don't know my top weight, I wasn't weighing!

Then it dawned on me, (I know...it took 20 years....) every diet I did I got fatter. So I stopped dieting, and stopped putting on weight, but sadly I didn't lose any either.

So there I was heavy but reasonably happy. I wore the big shirts, and anyway I wasn't really all that big, was I? Just a little plump. Anyway, I'm quite tall, I carry it well. You all know how it goes I'm sure....

Then in July 2010 my son and I went to the UK to visit my parents. Son had not seen his grandparents for 7 years. We had a wonderful time, visiting Stonehenge, Hadrian's Wall, London, and so on. It was also my parent's 50th wedding anniversary. Obviously we took a lot of photos.

And in them all was this big fat woman who looked a bit like me! I wasn't that fat, surely?

Photo, son and me at Stonehenge.

 We arrived back in New Zealand on the 31st of August 2010. I spent the next few days being awake at night and dozing through the day.
On the 3rd September we had a load of logs delivered. I helped stack them, but then I tweaked my back. As I had had a back operation several years ago, I took it seriously and went and lay down. That evening the back was sore, so I took pain killers and went to bed. I woke at about 2am wide awake and with a sore back. So I got up and made a cup of tea. After I had drunk it, I settled on the living room sofa, under a rug. I put the light out.

Almost as soon as I had done this, my world changed forever.