At what point did your weight gain take control of your life?

I have always been fairly active and not worried about being heavy. It seems that one day I reached a weight that took over my life. Suddenly my knees hurt to climb steps, my lungs felt compressed when I sat up in a chair so that I couldn't breathe freely. I could no longer do normal daily activities with my kids. I became a prisoner of obesity overnight. Did any of you have this happen like this? And at what point did you realize your life was taken away by obesity? My life ended at 285 pounds, but will handed back to me on February 11, 2002, my WLS date!

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