Hello!!!
My very first blog. I am here to explain why I am asking for your support, your donation, and anything else that you can give.
I am 26 year old. The name's Stephen. I'm from Charleston, South Carolina. I'm deaf. I weight 450 something pound. How did I get to 450 plus is baffling, but maybe you can see how I could gain and gain pounds after pounds by what I have gone though.
I was born profoundly deaf. My parents divorced when I was maybe 3 or 4, in 1987 or 1988. Being a deaf young boy was not easy, I had to depend on my younger brother to make friends, or to talk to other people. My dad remarried to a beautiful lady named Paula and she became our step-mom. Things were looking a little better, we had really active life. I had handful of friends due to my hearing inabilities and that caused me to be isolated in public school. Around 1997 or 1998, my step mom suffered a brain aneurysm, and nearly died, she was rushed to hospital to do surgery and was able to live though it. My step mom left my dad shortly after and my life fell apart at the time.
I felt like I had to do stuff around the house because dad was working all of the time. I gained some weight, I was overweight teenager, who spent his whole summer on computer because there was not a lot of people to hang out with. in 1999 or so, my dad suffered a stroke, and heart attack shortly after. We were facing so many problems at home, I decided to drop out of school at age of 16. I also left school mostly because of my weight. I sweated easily after climbing up stairs to 3rd floor of North Charleston High School. I was seriously depressed and did not want to hang out with people or do anything but support our family. During that period, I went on to gain more and more weight. I decided go back to school in August of 2001 at South Carolina School for the Deaf in Spartanburg, SC. My father then, was in serious car accident in 2003, he suffered minor stroke, and broke his neck at the C-2 and C-4 area and was told he would not be able to walk again. I then felt like I had lost my dad. My mother decided to take my younger brother away to Louisville, KY leaving me behind because I was going to SC School for the Deaf, and that sure didn't help me. I went on to gain to nearly 300 pounds. I was obese in high school.
I struggled with my family at home and school. I barely passed but was able to graduate in 2004 with high school diploma. I was the only one in the class to do so. I got accepted to Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. I went there in fall of 2004 to Dec of 2005 and decided to withdraw because of my family. By the time I left Gallaudet, I came to weight something around 495 or 500 pounds. I was not able to fit in plane seats, breaking chairs all over place, broke my own jeep seat. I was extremely embarrassed but still did nothing. To this day, I still help my family and weight 450 something pounds.
You may be asking why I am asking you for help. I am inspired by those biggest loser winners like Michael Ventrella, Ali Vincent, Helen Philips, and many others who have successfully lost weight in the right way. I understand that to do this I would have to give up something in my life, and this is to put myself first and make myself the most important thing in world.
I have decided I want go to the biggest loser fitness resort in Utah. (http://www.biggestloserresort.com/) This is my door, this is my way to lose weight without having to worry about home, and stuff. This is going to save my life. I know I would have to work out every week, every chance I get to do. I would have to eat much healthier. I want to live until im 100 or so.
I'm asking you guys to give me support, donate to my charity and fund this so I can prove that the only thing I can't do is hear.
Also I promise you, when I do lose all that unhealthy weight, I am not stopping the buck there, I am going to pick the next person to pass this experience on, and money if there is some left in the account.
I also will need ideas and suggestions from you guys.
