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

Ive been heavy all of my life. At this time IM at the heaviest that Ive ever been. Ive tried countless numbers of diets and weight loss programs, pills, shots, gyms. They worked fine for a while but I always found myself slipping backwards and putting back on the weight I had lost. 5 years ago I did start the process for gastric bypass and decided about 2 weeks into the classes I wasnt ready for it. Now I am and Im moving forward. I went to my first Choices meeting the begingin of this month and received some good information that helped me decide that this is what I wanted. Last week I received the phone call that I had been accepted into the Options Class and I begin my first class on February 10th.

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

Being called names while growing up was the worst. It still affects me. I feel that Im always be made fun of. I have no energy to do the things I would like to do, or Im to ashamed to do them 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?

Havent had the surgery yet...