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

I started battling with my weight in my teenage years around 13 years of age. I can remember always being hungry. My stepmom Janie would pack me a decent packed lunch everyday but I would get up and eat breakfast and still be hungry. So on my way to school I would eat my packed lunch on the way to the bus stop tll so I would feel satisfied. I would then charge my lunch at school. and eat. I think that early on I suffered from depression and didnt realize it. That is my first memory of binge eating. Through my high school years I would eat large amounts of food and I realized I was gaining weight. It was depressing . I can remember the day I saw the scale reach 200 pounds. I was mortified. I cried alot. Ive always been an extremely pretty girl with the pretty eyes that always made everyone laugh and gave of myself before I cared for myself. I can still hear people say omg you have such a pretty face which to me is just like a slap in the face. I ended up dropping out of high school due to I found a horrible boyfriend that accepted me and I had no use for school. As the years went on I gained and lost weight back and forth. I had two baby girls and got married. The weight kept coming. I grew deeply depressed. I suffed a nervous breakdown due to al the emotional problems Ive had thru the years associated to weight. I was so happy to come to the conclusion that bariatric surgery is the best choice for me and that I now have the chance to start my life over!

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

I feel the worst thing about being over weight is hating my body. Wanting to cry everytime I see myself in the mirror. I see this pretty girl with an enoumous body. Its caused me great problems with eating. I stopped eating for days and then would be so hungry that I would gorge, binge. I grew afraid of eating. I still am but I battle and much like an addiction I stop listening to the part of my brain that tells me dont eat you will gain weight if you do. I also loose my appitite when im stressed or anxious. Thank God for meds lol. I like to be active so the fact that my knees, hips, lower back, and feet are constantly hurt are a bummer.

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 would love to walk!! Learn to run! I want to sky dive! I want to parasail! Yeah im a little extreme but thats always been my personality. I want to do activities without stopping to deal with pain. I want to swim without being mortified about my swimsuit and my body. I cant wait to SHOP SHOP SHOP!!!! LOL I BETTER WIN THE LOTTO!!