Why I Decided to Have WLS I was always “A Thick Red Bone” with lots of curves. Being from Louisiana, that wasn’t a bad thing. However, in middle school, I was made fun of because my legs were shaped like baseball bats, and my butt was huge. I was intelligent,
Why I Decided to Have WLS My journey started when I was 14 years old and was put down a lot because of my weight. It put me into a tailspin of diets, bulimia, anorexia, depression, and yo-yo dieting for 46 years. I pretty much stopped living and experiencing life.
Why I Decided to Have WLS As long as I can remember I have struggled with obesity. In high school, I lost 100 pounds by almost starving myself. I was miserable and eventually gained back the weight that I'd lost. When I was 20, I was diagnosed with Polycystic Ovarian
My WLS Journey On April 13, 2017, I started on a journey to improve my health. I had Type II Diabetes and was morbidly obese. At the time of my surgery, I was 413 pounds. In the past, I weighed as much as 440 pounds. Since that date, I’ve lost
Why I Decided to Have WLS On February 11, 2018, I was 41 years of age with a BMI of 43 and obviously overweight. I was no longer enjoying my life. I was not always morbidly obese. I was able to go hiking, bike riding around campgrounds and neighborhoods, enjoy
Why I Decided to Have WLS I’ve had my struggles with weight for years, yo-yo dieting, diet pills, a five-time Weight Watchers drop out, Jenny Craig, Nutrition System, even tried the HCG injections only to gain a bunch of weight. You name it, I tried it with no success what
My WLS Journey My gastric sleeve surgery took place on June 27, 2018, at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, TN, with Dr. James Ray performing the surgery. Even though my surgery was that date, my surgery experience actually started in Feb. 2018. The reason for this is that, in order
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
