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Obesity & Me

Describe your behavioral and emotional battle with weight control before learning about bariatric surgery.

I was very young when I went into the WLS process, I had gained a lot of excess weight with three pregnancies back to back and landed at 320 lbs. Moving out at a very young age, and being quite poor contributed to my obesity. I learned to cook cheap meals and not healthy meals. We also depended a lot of fast food, which was cheap, and easy. Even if I KNEW that my food choices were poor -- I still did it because "It doesn't even matter" because I was "already 300 pounds," you know? There is a certain level of just GIVING UP. And, this would happen every day, I might start a day with what I call DIET HEAD and land in a pile of buttered pasta! I never thought I'd get control of my weight long term. I tried various diets with short term success. I am not against diets, even to this day, but my follow through is awful. WLS changed that for me. I have always said that WLS forced it on me. It worked.

What was (is) the worst thing about being overweight?

The looks from other people that they don't even REALIZE they give out. Especially when I had my children with me. It burned holes in me.

If you have had weight loss surgery already, what things do you most enjoy doing now that you weren't able to do before?

I have that sense of CONTROL over my eating. Even at eight years post op, I can make choices and stop my own stupidity, the WLS triggered that for me.

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