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

I always knew i was very overweight, but I always tried to just ignore it. I would tell myself.. "i'm not as big as so n so" but sooner or later something would come about and I would realize yes I actually was. Things would happen to me that would cause me to get very embarrassed, like breaking chairs when I sat or things my family and friends would say even when they were trying to be kind and not hurt my feelings. I was always good and keeping my feelings hidden. I think it has made me a bit hard in my age. and I don't want to be, I want to be that very girly girl who doesn't have to worry about walking into a room and having people do the OMG shes huge expression. I don't to be butt of peoples jokes. It got to the point I just stopped caring, i stopped wanting to do things and I always worried I would end up being that huge woman who was locked in her house and never left her bed.

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

The worst thing about being overweight was I couldn't do things for myself. I felt like I had to ask for peoples help all the time. I lost myself I lost my independence and I lost my confidence. Things I miss about me, My weight ate me as I ate food.

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 am only a week out of surgery. So I really cant answer this one yet. but Soon I will have many things I can do that I forgot I could!