Bariatric Surgery Helps Overcome PCOS Weight Gain During my teens, I maintained a weight between 150-155 pounds. I never had to worry about working out or eating right. But when I turned 19, three months into a new relationship with a great guy, I started to gain weight every month.
Why I Decided To Have WLS I thought I might be floating on a cloud in some surreal world where the scales won’t work properly. On the scale, 270 pounds? That couldn’t be right. I bought another scale. I got the kind you used to see in a doctor’s office
Why I Decided To Have WLS I was not always overweight. After getting married and working as a Defense Contractor where the work days are long and often 7 days a week for month and years, I started gaining weight. Traveling to remote work locations compounded by poor food choices
Why I Decided to Have WLS Being from the Midwest and raised on a farm, I was always a “big boy” my entire life. Throughout school, I was the largest in my class and there were certainly some comments made about my weight from some of my classmates but I
Why I Decided To Have WLS My story begins when I was in grade school. I learned from a very early age that sugar foods tasted great. I believed in my soul that if one bite is good, then two hundred bites would be better. I came home from school
Why I Decided to Have WLS Being overweight has always been my life. I remember in grade school that I was the one chosen last for gym teams. I could not flip on the gym mats or run in field day. I remember not having friends. I was never in invited
Why I Decided to Have WLS I always struggled with my weight since childhood. Looking back, and knowing what I do now, it makes much more sense: I had an undiagnosed bipolar disorder for many years and had cycles of anorexia and binge-eating that paralleled my highs and lows. I
Why I Decided To Have WLS I weighed 175 pounds when I got married in 1977. Throughout the next 40 years, I slowly put on weight. It was very gradual but at my heaviest, I weighed 320 pounds. Since my excess weight was put on over so many years, I
Why I Decided to Have WLS My story begins a little over 10 years ago. After years of crash diets, I was literally eating myself to death. I was in a very bad marriage and my mother became ill with heart-related issues, diabetes, and kidney failure. I watched her slowly
Why I decided to have WLS I gained 65lbs. with my first child. It easily came off and I was back to 135. Two children more and still weighed 135. At this point, my husband told me that I was too fat for him to be seen in public with
