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Obesity & Me

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

I am an extreme emotional eater. I have struggled with my weight since I was ten. I would lose at times, but mostly gain. I eat when I’m bored, sad, angry, you name it. And then I sit around and berate myself afterwards.

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

The way people you treat you. I can’t even begin to tell you how I’ve felt over the years watching my sister and my friends have guys look at them and not me. Some of the guys have even told them they would never be attracted to someone like me because of my weight :-(

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 recently had it, so I haven’t had much opportunity to do anything… yet :-)

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