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

Grazing, bored and binge eating defined my relationship with food. I had the mentality of always "needing to have enough" and so ate to the point of discomfort very often. Humiliation was an ever-constant emotion: from the comments by children ("Mommmy, why is she so fat?"), to the inability to squeeze through turnstyles and fit in seats at stadiums, concerts and movies to having a waiter tell me I couldn't sit in the deck chair and had to switch to a sturdy, armless dining room chair to having to order stretchy clothing in sizes that could fit multiple people. I avoided mirrors, most theaters, and events with public seating. I was isolating myself more and more because I couldn't face the humiliation of being super morbidly in a world that could not fit me.

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

The limitations on living: physical, emotional, health, psychological

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

After a 203 pound weight loss to date, it would be my limitlessness. I now have the freedom to choose my life and its course rather than have my weight impede or choose for me.