Why I Decided to Have WLS In January of 2011, after the holidays, I got out of the shower and looked at myself in the mirror with total disgust. I never had a weight issue up to 4 years prior. I was always a very tiny petite person who all
Why I Decided to Have WLS “For God’s sake, Dayna, it hurts my back when I wipe my ass,” I said to my counselor through tears. It was November 2015, and I had no idea what could or should be done. But Dayna just sat with me through the tears
Why I Decided to Have WLS The first time I remember struggling with my weight was probably around nine years old. I remember as I sat in my third-grade classroom, my teacher started to ask for my classmates' weights for a math problem. As they called out their weights, all
Why I Decided to Have WLS I struggled with obesity on and off most of my life. I recall as a teenager joining Weight Watchers and never sticking to it, finding it difficult. At 21, I even worked for Nutrisystem selling their program while being on it myself, constantly yo-yo
Why I Decided to Have WLS I struggled with my weight for my whole life. My struggle with weight loss began in Middle School as I was always heavier, overweight or obese all through school. I constantly wanted to be skinny so I could fit in and not be made
Why I Decided to Have WLS I was very thin, I was a size 0 in my senior year of high school. However, when I went to college, I gained almost 100 pounds in a year after being placed on a series of medications. Once I was married, in 2001,
Why I Decided to Have WLS As a child, I remember always being made fun of because of my weight. At the young age of 5 years old, I weighed an outstanding 97 pounds and things only got worse as the years went by. Food was a coping mechanism for
Why I Decided to Have WLS My struggle with weight started after the birth of my second child in 1994 at the age of 23. I had not had an issue with weight in the past and I felt like something was off. I remember going to my primary doctor
Why I Decided to Have WLS I decided one day, I could not live the habits and life that I was living as it was slowly killing me inside. I woke up one day and decided I did not want to feel fat anymore nor did I want to continue
Why I Decided to Have WLS The Journey of Reinventing Kellie started in August 2015 when I walked into the Bailey Medical Center in Owasso, OK weighing 351 pounds. I first learned about VSG years ago when my husband's cousin, a GP Doctor, had the surgery. Several of my friends
