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

Eat, behave and react mindfully. this is my struggle. I have been working with a therapist for a few years on separating childhood sexual abuse with self and body image issues. Knowing that my fears have sabotaged me in weight loss attempts in the past. I'm 80 lbs. lighter and still working through feelings each time a man holds a door for me or anyone compliments me. I am the same person that people looked through or insulted. I have some work yet to do on self esteem and self image, I guess it will take a lot of patience on my part...with myself and others.

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

Being the butt of jokes and being invisible, at the same time. Letting people define me by what I weighed and looked like in my depression and indifference to my appearance.

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

Being able to move and feel better than I had for a very long time; physically and mentally and emotionally. I have begun to enjoy dressing and grooming, in a way I never have before.