Why I decided to have WLS: Before & After VSG with Steve T. I have been battling obesity most of my life. My only coping mechanism growing up was to eat. Any emotions I felt, my comfort zone was to eat. I was a loner growing up and got picked
Why I Decided to Have WLS: Before & After RNY with Carlos My name is Carlos Otero and I'm glad to share my journey in this Before & After RNY with Carlos article. I started my weight loss journey over 18 years ago, and I weighed 403lbs. I’ve been overweight
Before & After Plastic Surgery with Shanni1269: Why I Decided to Have WLS and Plastic Surgery Shanni1269 shares her inspirational journey in her Before & After Plastic Surgery with Shanni1269! I wasn’t always a chubby kid, I was active and never thought too much about my own weight. I watched
Why I decided to have WLS Surgery: Before & After VSG with Khaleesi Sleeved Simple... to save my life! My name is Jaclyn, and I am a 37-year-old single mother who has been obese since I was about 10 years old. No matter what I did, however many fad diets
Why I Decided to Have WLS I have been overweight all of my life. I tried to diet, and nothing ever seemed to stick. I tried working with my primary care physician. Even as I worked with my doctor, I wasn't successful because it was never the right time for
Why I Decided to Have WLS Since I can remember, I've been heavyset. In the 5th grade, I wore a size 12/13. In 7th grade, I weighed 167 lbs. and was 5'5" tall. No matter how active I was as a child, I was always bigger. In my freshman year
Why I Decided to Have WLS Was I always overweight? I guess so. To be honest, when I looked in the mirror, I never thought I was OBESE. I just thought I was cute and a little chubby. As a child, I wasn't skinny. I was “big-boned,” as mom said.
Why I Decided to Have WLS As a child, I had no issues with weight control. If anything, I was decidedly underweight (“skeletal” - think 6’2” at 130 pounds in my senior year of high school). After school, I joined the Navy, and even though the service was BIG on
Why I Decided to Have WLS Growing up, I was always overweight. I don't remember a time in my life when I wasn’t always the “fat one.” It was so hard to watch my two siblings and cousins play sports and enjoy “normal” childhood activities. I wanted to do those
Why I Decided to Have WLS In November of 2014, I was close to 300 pounds. I had given up weighing myself, so I'm not sure how high I had gotten. (My all-time high was 345 in 2007 when I left a miserable 27-year marriage.) That November night, my significant other
