Follow Her Story
Michele Rector has taken the step to a healthier lifestyle. Follow her journey and check back often to see her results and progress. We thank Michele for sharing her story and look forward to taking this journey with her!
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Michele discussed her story live with Louie Seiberlich on the KREI Morning Show, August 1, 2011.
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May 2012
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January 11, 2012
Congratulations! December 7, 2011 Michele has lost another 7 pounds.
Looking good! November 9, 2011 Michele drops 11 more pounds.
Congratulations! October 19, 2011 Michele hits the 100 lbs lost mark!
Michele’s progress continues. Since her June 15, 2011 picture, she has lost another 11 pounds for a grand total of 64 lbs lost!
Since her first picture, Michele has lost 53 pounds! Congratulations!
October 7, 2010
I’ve always been considered “the big girl.” That’s how most people describe me when they are talking about me. They don’t know that I overhear them, or I know what they are thinking when they look at me. I know what they are saying and thinking because have said some of the same things myself. I have always tried to cover the pain that I had associated with my weight with humor. Isn’t that a rule somewhere? Fat people have to be happy! Well, not only do I want to act happy, I want to be happy when I look in the mirror.
Why do I want to have the Lap-Band surgery? I want to like myself again. I have given my whole life to the people that I love and my community. I have been taking care of my disabled mother for 18 years, my foster sister for 13 years, and over the last year I have been supporting my unemployed sister and her three children. I spend my free time volunteering with Girl Scouts of Eastern Missouri, MARMC’s Relay for Life, North County High School Raider Marching Band, and lending a hand at my brother’s restaurant in Leadwood. Now I believe it is the time to start loving myself again. It may sound vain, but I honestly want to love myself for the first time in my whole life. I have been so focused on everyone else in my life that the time constraints and the stress we sometimes encounter have not made it easy for me to take care of myself. I know that it is hard, and this is not just about weight. I love the person that I am on the inside; I just want to love myself as a whole.
Is it going to be hard? Yes, but I have faced the challenges of dieting on my own my whole life. They just have not consistently worked for me. I have researched and am willing to take the necessary steps of a successful Lap-Band surgery. I have the determination and the desire.
-Michele Rector