At 325 Pounds, I Almost Died Giving Birth. Then, I Lost 159 Pounds and Took Back My Life.
On the day I delivered my fifth child, no one seemed to have answers for me. I was scared for my unborn son, scared for us both.
And yet, after hours of panic and then only two pushes, there he was. Out came my sweet, little Agustin. Born August 5, 2016, at 1:20 p.m. at Redding Medical Center in Redding, CA. Nurses and doctors rushed in and out of my room, ripping my clothes off, giving me shots, feeding me pills. They kept doing everything they could to get my blood pressure down. Nothing was working. Even after 10 hours of trying, no one could figure out how to fix it. So they shipped me off to a cardiac unit to get answers, and fortunately after nine days of treatment, my numbers got back down within a safe range. I was finally cleared to go back home to my family and reunite with my newborn.
I remember one time when I was sick in the hospital with a bone marrow infection, and my grandma sent me boxes and boxes of chocolates. I would just have my way with them. I see now that I used food to cope with my pain and my emotions, to make up for what my mother couldn’t provide.On top of that, I didn’t have the best self-image when it came to my body. In my mind I was always “the fat one," which is crazy to me because when I look back at pictures now, I wasn’t that big of a kid.
So I just kept eating. And I wasn’t physically active at all. I was so focused on taking care of my kids and working 24-hour weekend shifts at a local group home to earn money for my family; I thought I didn’t have any more energy to exercise. But the bigger I became, the more I hated myself. I got to a point where I wasn’t enjoying life anymore. I wouldn’t say that I was depressed, but I just stopped caring. I was just surviving, and I felt like life wasn’t going to get any better.
And I’d love to tell you that every year after that, things just kept getting better and I lost all of this weight from taking long strolls. But there were lots of moments when I felt like throwing in the towel. One day, I fell and injured my knee. Doctors refused to do surgery because of my weight, so I was in a wheelchair for a while and unable to exercise. In 2018, doctors discovered I also had polycystic ovary syndrome , which can make it difficult forand lost 20 pounds within a month.
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