Why I Decided To Have WLS Growing up in a household where all of my immediate family were overweight and dealt with poor eating habits. Partially due to the fact that we never made the effort to pursue a healthier lifestyle as a family. Coming from a family with Caribbean
Why I Decided to Have WLS It seems like just yesterday when I got married and started a family. My life was great. I had a nice house, a new car, a successful business and a social life. Who can ask for anything more, I was living the American dream,
Why I Decided to Have WLS I’ve struggled with my weight since 2nd grade. I remember my teacher looking at me and saying “you’re gonna pop out of them clothes.” From then on, my parents tried hard to help me lose weight. Back in the early 90’s, low-fat diets were
Why I Decided to Have WLS I have always struggled with my weight. As almost anyone that has struggled with their weight will tell you, there are many different reasons/circumstances/excuses that overweight people use. The first is hereditary, then environment, then age, etc. and etc. My struggles started in the
Why I Decided To Have WLS Hi, everyone I am 64 years old and an obesity surgeon. In addition, I'm a Sleeve Gastrectomy post-op since 2012. I want to share my Sleeve Gastrectomy experience with you. Being an obesity surgeon, I was not afraid of the surgery or its potential
Click. Click. At 3:30 am in a silent house, the sound from my hip was clearly audible. Click. It reminded me of a clock winding down, clicking until I had to assemble my running gear and head out the door. My body, injured from the previous day’s 10K race, was
Why I Decided To Have WLS As a young girl, I struggled with my weight and found physical fitness to be a challenge for me. In physical education class, I was unable to run a mile in less than 10 minutes like most of the other students could so my
Why I decided to have WLS I have struggled with my weight for a good part of my life. I weighed 174 pounds at just 21 years old. I got married, had three kids and the rest of the story is a lot of weight gain over the next several years. I gained about
Why I Decided to Have WLS I was always the kid that was told you’d be "cute" if you’d just lose a few pounds. Growing up, being overweight, and losing weight was about looks, how I looked. I lost weight my senior year of high school, but three years later,
Why I Decided To Have WLS I decided to have weight loss surgery because as long as I can remember I have been the "fat friend" or a member of the "Pretty Face Club." I got tired of hearing "but you have such a pretty face" or "you're pretty for
